Powerful Women

Powerful women

people to be admired

diana spencer

Diana was educated in private schools and attended a finishing school in Switzerland. She returned to London where she took on peculiar jobs ranging from dance instructor to nanny to nursery teacher’s assistant. Diana was highly involved in charitable work and took an interest in health-related matters, most notably HIV/AIDS and leprosy. She extended her royal patronage to numerous organizations such as the British Lung Foundation, the National AIDS trust and the British Red Cross Youth.

Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú is an iconic indigenous rights activist, feminist, former political candidate and humanitarian who was exiled from her native Guatemala in 1981, She’s now a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and even ran for Guatemalan president in 2007 and 2011, a move which cemented her status as one of the country’s most influential people.

Mariana Costa Checa

Mariana Costa Checa. As the brain behind Laboratoria, a business directed towards getting low-income women into the tech industry by providing them with web design classes. She’s been praised by both Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg. She was also recently recognized by MIT as one of the most innovative minds under 35 and named as one of just nine Latin American women in the BBC’s 2016 Women of the Year rankings.