When women are empowered, the whole community benefits.

"I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their differing areas of concern for the welfare of their families and their world... Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."

--Eleanor Roosevelt, December 1952

Now more than ever, communities and organizations across the Asia Pacific region are in need of balanced and constructive leadership. Launched in 2002, Changing Faces is a program designed to bring together women from the United States and the Asia Pacific region to participate in dialogue on leadership and issues specific to women in leadership around the region. The program seeks professional women at lower and middle level positions of leadership who have the potential to move into positions of greater responsibility and influence.

To date, 91 women from 27 countries have participated in the Changing Faces Program. These women come from a broad cross-section of the societies in which they live and work, representing government, media, civil society, academia, and the corporate/business sectors.

Highlights of the 2007 program>>>