UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY – 77TH SESSION (UNGA77) HIGH LEVEL DEBATE WEEK KICK-OFF: IN THE COMPANY OF EXTRAORDINARY, TRAILBLAZING WOMEN COMMITTED TO POSITIVE IMPACT AND CHANGE FOR A BETTER WORLD

Deeply honored and grateful to spend this year’s #UNGA High Level Debate week kick-off via very special moments of shared energy, commitments, life work, intentions and passion with US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who is also the Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of United Nations; Elizabeth Cousens President and CEO of United Nations Foundation; Ann costello President, Roche Diagnostic Solutions; our very own, Dr. Roopa Anmolsingh, FSUN’s Director for Global Health Initiatives and Partnerships.

Grateful to Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) Roche and Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for hosting “Building Diagnostic Capacity to Confront Current and Future Pandemics: The Role of the The Global Fund” event and reception at the Harvard Club of New York City with US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield and H.E. Dr. Mokgweetsi Masisi, President of the Republic of Botswana as Keynote Speakers. Special thanks to Reid Harrison for the invite.

Also grateful to United Nations Foundation Financial Times and Ford Foundation for hosting the conversations around “Reinforcing Cooperation in a Disrupted World” featuring Elizabeth Cousens; UN SG Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake Ambassador Martin Kimani, Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations; Damilola Ogunbiyi CEO and UN SRSG for Sustainable Energy for All, Co-Chair of UN-Energy; Chido Cleopatra Mpemba Special Envoy on Youth African Union; moderated by Patrick Temple-West of Financial Times.

The challenges that we all continue to face collectively as humankind are enormous and daunting, and many times we feel there is no ending. But I believe that as long as we all continue our work of pushing the boundaries of collective wisdom, commitments, knowledge, passion, resources and action —  as we speak power to HOPE — then the present world could be better, and the future even better.