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The SOAR Fellowship invests in visionary leaders with bold ideas to address pressing issues affecting women and girls today. SOAR Fellows are committed to an intersectional approach and at an inflection point that will enable a quantum leap forward for gender equity, equality, economic justice, and well-being for women, families, and girls in the US and around the world. The SOAR Fellowship is the Aspen Institute Forum on Women and Girls’ signature leadership initiative.

Diana Williams

Deputy Director, Mesa County Public Health of Colorado

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Tsion Yohannes Waka

Chair, Center for Gender Equity of University of Global Health Equity

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Desiré Shepler

President and CEO, Alaska Family Services (AFS)

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Erin Oban

State Director, USDA Rural Development of North Dakota

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Lulete Mola

President and Co-Founder, Philanthropic Collective to Combat Anti-Blackness & Realize Racial Justice

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Constancia Mavodza

Process Evaluation Lead, Biomedical Research and Training Institute Harare, Zimbabwe

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Marc Julmisse

Interim Executive Director & Chief Nursing Officer, Zanmi Lasante

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Nikisha Iyengar

Founder, The Guild

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Quincy Brown, PhD

Senior Policy Advisor for STEM Education Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

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