Gail Straub

Activist, Change Agent, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Global soul, Social entrepreneur, World traveler, Writer/Editor

ABOUT GAIL STRAUB A pioneer in the field of empowerment, Gail Straub co-directs the Empowerment Institute, a school for transformative social change where her primary focus is women’s empowerment. For the last three decades she has offered her work to tens of thousands of people throughout America, Europe, Russia, China, Africa, Afghanistan, and Asia. She co-founded IMAGINE: A Global Initiative for the Empowerment of Women to help women heal from violence, build strong lives, and contribute to their communities. This initiative applies the Institute’s empowerment methodology to the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals “to promote gender equality and empower women.” IMAGINE initiatives are under way in Afghanistan, Sudan (Darfur), South Africa, India, and Nigeria. Gail has consulted to many organizations furthering women’s empowerment including the Chinese Women’s Federation, the Russian American Humanitarian Initiative, the Women’s Leadership Center at Omega, World Pulse, and Feminist.com. Gail is the author of four books including, with her husband David Gershon, the best selling Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It, the critically acclaimed, The Rhythm of Compassion: Caring for Self, Connecting with Society, and the awarding-winning feminist memoir Returning to My Mother’s House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine. She is also a contributor to the groundbreaking anthology Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership. Taking her empowerment work global early in her career, Gail served as the International Director for the historic First Earth Run, a planet-wide initiative co-sponsored by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and ABC Television. During the height of the Cold War, a torch of peace was passed around the world, mobilizing the participation of 25 million people in 62 countries and 45 heads of state. The event raised millions of dollars for UNICEF that was distributed to the neediest children in the world. Gail received her B.A. with honors in political science from Skidmore College. She has served in the Peace Corps in West Africa, and on many Boards including the Omega Institute and the Russian American Humanitarian Initiative. For Further Information Gail Straub Executive Director Empowerment Training Programs (845) 331-1312 gstraub@empowermenttraining.com www.empowermenttraining.com www.imagineprogram.net

Women's empowerment; the relationship between women in the global south and global north; partnership and collaboration; leadership; spirituality and the wisdom of the feminine;the natural world.

http://www.imagineprogram.net/

Empowerment and women's issues