Vital Voices Podcast

Power to Empower: Amira Yahyaoui on Fighting for Dignity and Women as Changemakers

Episode Summary

Amira Yahyaoui, a human rights and democracy activist, global technology entrepreneur and founder of Mos.com, joins the podcast with host Alyse Nelson to share how her experience of being persecuted and beaten by agents of her state redefined her future; and her drive for seeking opportunity and education for others. From her persecution in Tunisia, to her work in Silicon Valley, Amira’s episode of the Power to Empower Podcast series shines a light on what it truly means to be a changemaker and advocate for the ways women lead differently.

Episode Notes

Tunisian human rights activist, global technology entrepreneur and founder of Mos.com, Amira Yahyaoui joined the second episode of the Vital Voices Podcast new series: Power to Empower. Amira joined host Alyse Nelson to talk about her past, present, and future as an advocate for change and what it means to be a trailblazing human rights advocate, a woman leader, and immigrant.

To learn more about Vital Voices, visit www.vitalvoices.org. This series is inspired by our book, Vital Voices: 100 Women using their Power to Empower, edited by Alyse Nelson with art by Gayle Kabaker, published by Assouline.

Host: Alyse Nelson.

Executive Producer: Lizzie Kubo Kirschenbaum.

Producer and Editor: Sofi Ibrahim

Music: Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod.

Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=deliberate+thought.

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

 

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