Sandra Pepera is a Ghanaian woman raised in Britain by parents who were deeply committed to girls' education. No stranger to the experience of being a minority in the room, Sandra is a campaigner at heart and has dedicated her life to equity and justice work. Today, she is a renowned an expert in international development, democracy, and gender equity. The Director for Gender, Women, and Democracy at the National Democratic Institute in Washington D.C., she works tirelessly to help women overcome barriers to their equal and active political participation all over the world. We're talking tokenism, quotas, politics, as well as how to engage our sons in issues of gender equity. Typically constrained by professionalism and diplomacy, we're excited to share Sandra's story completely unleashed.
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