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Sheryl Sandberg

Born in 1969, this American businesswoman holds the position of chief operating officer of Facebook. Prior to this position, she was Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, and was involved in launching Google's philanthropic arm Google.org. She has also served as chief of staff for the United State Secretary of the Treasury.

Judith Rodin

Cited by the author in Chapter 1, this philanthropist is currently the president of the Rockefeller Foundation. From 1994 to 2004, she served as the 7th permanent president of the University of Pennsylvania.

Leymah Gbowee

This individual won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for “helping to lead the women’s protests that toppled Liberia’s dictator,” according to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution.”

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

This individual is described in Chapter 1 by the author as the deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy...

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