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Earlier this year, Bobbi McKenna, the publisher of GivingYouAVoice.com Internet Magazine became a member of the Women’s Leadership Board at the Kennedy School.

The WLB, which has been called a “Global Force for Change,” has raised over $10 million in ten years to support groundbreaking research and initiatives to help women. Members are drawn from all sectors of the economy and twenty-three countries across the globe. Twice a year the full board comes together at Harvard.

CEO’s, politicians, doctors, lawyers, and women leaders from all sectors of society bring their different perspectives and talents to educating and supporting women worldwide. Today we are seeing women move into positions of authority as the head of the G-8, the President of Harvard, and the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

Roxanne Mankin Cason, the Chair of the Women’s Leadership Board, puts it this way: “The landscape is changing as far as women and leadership. Before there were no seats at the table, now there are some seats at the table, and even some at the head of the table.”
Did you know?

Contrary to popular belief, the John F. Kennedy School of Government was not founded by the Kennedy Family in the 1960's. In fact, the Kennedy School traces its beginnings back to a $2 million gift from Lucius N. Littauer in 1936.

By the mid-1960s, the school began to develop a public policy curriculum based in economics and analytic studies. Around the same time, Harvard University moved to establish a memorial to the late President John F. Kennedy. The Institute of Politics was established by friends and Kennedy family members to serve as a bridge between the academic study of government and the real world of politics.

Today, the Kennedy School is considered to be one of the world’s most eminent social science research institutions – housing 15 research centers and institutes and more than a dozen executive education and degree programs – with worldwide reach and influence. The School draws forty percent of its students from outside the United States. More than 27,000 Kennedy School alumni reside in 137 countries and serve in a wide range of positions in the public, private and nonprofit sectors.