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Lisa Shannon

Founder of Run for Congo Women



A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman

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THE LATEST: Lisa Shannon's new project, Sister Somalia, was profiled on the front page of The New York Times recently. Read it HERE.

Lisa Shannon had what many would consider a good life--a successful company, a fiance, security. But one day, while watching Oprah, she was awakened to the atrocities in the Congo: women gang-raped and demoralized, millions dead from the worst war since World War II. She decided, at that moment, to become an activist and a sister. As the first grassroots activist in the U.S. working to raise awareness of the humanitarian crisis in the Congo, she began with a lone 30-mile run and from there, founded Run for Congo Women and, based on her experiences, penned a striking book titled, A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman.

At Run for Congo Women, Lisa Shannon has sponsored more than a thousand Congolese women through Women for Women International, where she is an ambassador. (The money goes to help them obtain an education.) In 2007 and 2008 and 2010, Shannon visited with women in the Eastern Congo. Rather fittingly, her appearance on an episode of Oprah dedicated to the greatest moral imperative of our time: the empowerment of women worldwide. With Nicolas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, she was ranked as one of Oprah's most inspiring moments of 2009, and was named one of Oprah's 100 Most Influential Women in 2010. Shannon has been profiled in The New York Times, on NPR, CNN, ABC, Time, and many others. Her incredible story will be featured in Daniel Karslake's upcoming documentary Every Three Seconds, slated for premiere at the 2012 Sundance Festival.

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A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman

How can a single moment change your life--and the lives of others? With grace and integrity, Lisa Shannon shares her transformation from lapsed idealist to leader of a mass movement for Congolese women. Moving from her first lone run in Portland to the war-shattered Congo, she tells us the harrowing but hopeful stories of the women she's helped, and the relationships she's formed. How do you create a virtuous cycle by cultivating women's leadership, at home and abroad? Where do you find the courage to start a non-profit with no experience? And why must we rethink our relationship with Africa, one woman at a time? Anchored by human bonds that terror cannot touch, this powerful talk explores the world's deadliest war through the intimate lens of friendship.



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Somalia Faces Alarming Rise in Rapes of Women and Girls - The New York Times

"D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution" by Nicholas Kristof - The New York Times

Lisa Shannon on the 2010 Power List - O Magazine

From Oprah to Congo: One Woman's Attempt to Save Thousands - TIME Magazine

American Lisa and Congolese Lisa - The New York Times blog

"From 'Oprah' to Building a Sisterhood in Congo" by Nicholas Kristof - The New York Times






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"If you're going to talk about jobs, then you have to talk about entrepreneurs," says Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. "And if you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women." Lemmon is the author of the New York Times bestselling book The Dressmaker of Khair Khana and a Contributing Editor-at-Large for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. She has devoted her life to shedding light on the resiliency of female entrepreneurs, and their remarkable power to reshape local economies. By recognizing and investing in these female breadwinners, Lemmon says, we can help grow economies of all development levels around the world.
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