Part of: Changing Faces Women's Leadership Seminar

Program

Theme: Women as Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Dates: July 23 - August 5, 2023
Study Destinations: Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island

The Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar focuses on the vital role that innovation and entrepreneurship play in contributing to economic growth, job creation, and strengthening communities. During this 12-day professional training, dialogue, and travel program, participants engage in a series of workshops focused on leadership and entrepreneurship. Participants also expand their knowledge of entrepreneurship, economic growth, leadership, and community building through carefully selected field visits and meetings with experts, practitioners, business owners, and policymakers in Hawaiʻi. Participants are individually matched with local women leaders in a Host Mentor Program and, in return, Changing Faces participants act as mentors for a select group of high school students in a Next Generation Service Project. The Changing Faces Seminar also provides training and consultative sessions to help participants develop and actualize a concrete Action Plan for the betterment of their business or their community. Finally, Changing Faces women serve as panelists, moderators and attendees at the publicly ticketed #GalswithLEI Forum, a purposeful, collaborative, and dynamic forum.

The Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar is funded by the East-West Center, the Fish Family Foundation, and others.

Congratulations to the 2023 Changing Faces Women:

• Ria Andriana, Founder & CEO, PT Kuliner Jalanan Group, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Lach Baniya, Co-Founder, Icarus Media Co., Ltd., Chiang Mai, Thailand
• Armi Shyr Baticados, Chapter Head and Co-founder, LATCH, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
• Sylvia C. Frain, Co-Founder, Fåha' Digital Media, Inc., Tanapag, Saipan, USA
• Mrinali Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO, EatKinda Ltd., New Plymouth, New Zealand
• Wuying Lin, Founder & Director, iConserve Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China
• Nadia Meredith-Hunt, CEO, KVAConsult Ltd., Apia, Sāmoa
• Suma Metla, Founder, Three Little Ducks, Kailua, Hawaiʻi, USA
• Kanako Sugiura, Founder & CEO, Midwives GLOBAL Inc., Nagoya, Japan
• Felolini Tafunaʻi, Founder & CEO, Flying Geese Pro, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Makiko Terahara, Founder & CEO, Marriage For All Japan, Tokyo, Japan
• Isabelle Thomas, Co-Founder & Director, BhuME Women's Collective Pvt. Ltd., Kochi, India
• Bosa Togs, Founder, Saribu ICT Consultancy Services, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
• Irushinie Wedage, Country Director - Sri Lanka, Parley for the Oceans, Colombo, Sri Lanka