Melinda Gates, "The Moment of Lift", at a Politics and Prose event at Sixth and I on 4/30/19.

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World is a personal statement of passionate conviction, telling of Melinda Gates' journey from a partner working behind the scenes to one of the world's foremost advocates for women, driven by the belief that no one should be excluded, all lives have equal value, and gender equity is the lever that lifts everything. For the last twenty years, Gates has been on a mission: Her goal, as cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live.

Gates is in conversation with Patricia Stonesifer, president and CEO of Martha's Table, a nonprofit that develops sustainable solutions to poverty.

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Cochair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private foundation in the world, Melinda Gates has dedicated her life to achieving transformational improvements in the health and prosperity of families, communities, and societies. Core to her work is empowering women and girls to help them realize their full potential. In 2015, Melinda created Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company that enables her to bring together other new and emerging strands of her advocacy and philanthropic work focused in the US. Melinda received a bachelor’s degree from Duke and an MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School. After joining Microsoft Corp. in 1987, she helped develop many of the company’s multimedia products. In 1996, Melinda left Microsoft to focus on her philanthropic work and family.

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