“The 10 Women Who Inspire Me Always”

4. Sue Edwards

Sue Edwards is Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development, an organization working to influence Ethiopia’s governmental policies on education, agriculture, and the environment, so as to create awareness and promote sustainable development. She has lived in Ethiopia for more than 40 years. Both Edwards and her husband Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher are passionate about the role that smallholder farmers can play in creating a sustainable future for all living things, from the greatest to the smallest, from the most appealing to the most appalling.

5. Stephanie Hanson

Stephanie Hanson is the Director of Policy and Outreach at One Acre Fund. From 2006 to 2009, she covered economic and political development in Africa and Latin America for CFR.org, the website of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2008, she won a News and Documentary Emmy for Crisis Guide: Darfur, an interactive media guide that explores the history and context of the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.
 

6.  Elizabeth Katushabe

Elizabeth Katushabe is a Program Officer with the Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA), an international NGO led and inspired by Africans, committed to addressing issues of pastoralist concerns from a regional perspective. Katushabe has held meetings and workshops with Parliamentary leaders and pastoralists in East Africa, attempting to bridge the gap between policy makers and rural communities. Katushabe has also worked with PENHA to emphasize the role that herders can play in protecting the environment, by employing practices such as rotational grazing.
 

7.  Shirley Lewis

Shirley “Baglady” Lewis is the Founder of Baglady Productions, an organization that works with schools, individuals, and the government to put sustainable behavior into action. Her work includes writing for newspapers in the United Kingdom and Australia, magazines and in-house journals, news radio reporting and presenting for the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She is most well-known for her original campaign to say “no” to plastic bags.