In 2013, at the UN Global Leaders Summit, she soft launched GATEGlobalImpact’s plans on helping women entrepreneurs around the world With Barbara Guilliaume and Clare Munn, she co-founded the new website We Advance University – to connect, educate and empower women in Haiti and throughout the world. She was named the Goodwill Ambassador for Women in Haiti in 2013. In 2012, she was a keynote speaker at the State Department’s Forum on Impact Investing and also awarded with the Starkey Foundation’s “So the World May Hear Award’. She speaks around the world on social impact investing, Haiti, and women’s rights. She was named a Vital Voices Global Ambassador for women and participated in the first ever Vital Voices / Bank of America International Women’s Conference in Haiti. She is a member of CGI and works on gender policy within the Haiti Network. She co-founded, WeAdvance in Haiti to bring medical and educational services to the poorest of Haiti.
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She spearheaded the opening of the women’s clinic in the Petionville Camp immediately following the earthquake. She raised funds and produced a women’s media campaign for the elections in 2010. Since 2008, she has worked in Haiti with Artists for Peace and Justice and Femmes en Democratie. In 2009 she was voted one of Vareity Magazines most powerful women in Hollywood for her activism in Darfur.
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She is currently writing a book and just completed writing a television series under her film production company, groundfloorentertainment which focuses on social impact entertainment.īello started her career at the Women’s Law Project in Philedelphia in 1987 and in 1997 she co-founded her first NGO in Harlem called TheDreamYardDrama Project. President Bill Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus.
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Maria Bello, an award winning actor (The Cooler, Coyote Ugly, History of Violence, Sisters), and having just won the Best Ensemble Award for 2013 for Prisoners, is an internationally renowned activist for social justice and women’s rights around the world, with a special focus on Haiti, where she is US Global Ambassador for Women of Haiti and served on the Haiti Economic Development Advisory Panel alongside Haitian President Michel Martelly, Ambassador Danielle St.