“Like Bill and Melinda Gates, I like to consider myself an impatient optimist,” Geena Davis told all of us gathered at the closing of the Women’s Funding Network Economics & Peace Summit in Los Angeles last weekend. Looking out at a room full of women who represent women’s funds, organizations and non-profits from around the world, the actor and activist continued. “I imagine all of you can think of yourselves that way. The time for change is now. And the great thing is, that we have incredible agents of change, filling this room. All of us, all of us are powerful agents of change. And we embrace what Dr. Martin Luther King called the fierce urgency of now.” Read More…
Put It In the Script: Adding Women to the Picture, from Geena Davis and the Women’s Funding Network Summit
May 12, 2012