You are invited to attend the Women’s Education Project’s
2024 Red Bangle Award Ceremony
Monday, December 2, 2024, at 10 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. IST
and the
11th Annual WEP Forum
Monday, December 9, 2024, 6-9 p.m. at the Steelcase Worklife Center, New York City
Are you interested in sponsoring the 2024 WEP Forum? Email Lisa Koonce for more information today!
The Red Bangle Award
The Red Bangle Award is presented annually to a woman who “by her life and accomplishment demonstrates the indomitable eloquence of the human spirit.” Inaugurated in 2014, the award recognizes women leaders globally who share WEP’s vision and inspire its students, young Indian women, to higher goals.
This year’s recipients each embody the spirit of the Red Bangle Award through their deep personal commitment and sustained professional work on issues of access to mental health services and educational opportunities through the strategic use of technology. Women’s Education Project is pleased to announce our 2024 Red Bangle Awardees Neha Kirpal, Co-Founder of Amaha Health, and Paige Johnson, VP of Education Marketing at Microsoft. Read the full press release here.
The 2024 Red Bangle Award Ceremony will be hosted on Zoom by our sponsor, EdWeb, and is open to all at no cost. Donations on behalf of your attendance are welcome and appreciated to support the growth of WEP’s Leadership Academies and to continue to support the needs of our students.
Neha Kirpal, Co- Founder of Amaha Health
Paige Johnson, VP Education Marketing at Microsoft
About the Forum
WEP’s annual Forum gathers international thought leaders working towards gender equality. Past topics have included NGO collaboration, gender lens investing, technology and change, celebrating first-generation college women, and recently, the pandemic’s disproportionate effects on women and girls, and the importance of supporting leadership and decision-making power of women at the grassroots level to truly resolve social and economic problems.
The Forum will be held in person in New York on the evening of December 9, 6–9 p.m., at Steelcase Worklife Center, 4 Columbus Circle, NY 10019. It will feature a panel discussion: AI and VR as Tools for Access and Inclusion in the Innovation Economy, with Dr. Michael Jabbour, AI Innovation Officer, Microsoft, and Amrutha Vasan, Co-Founder, Inspirit VR, moderated by Siya Raj Purohit, Education GTM Lead, OpenAI. There will also be a cocktail reception celebrating our Red Bangle Honorees.
Forum Sponsors
Sponsor the 2024 Forum
We warmly invite forward-thinking companies and organizations to join us in inspiring its students to reach higher goals. Explore our sponsorship levels and benefits:
- $5,000 Gold: Sponsors receive acknowledgment on website & event communications as a Gold sponsor, a special thank you from the podium, invitations to the online forum, and a special Connect event with WEP students in India.
- $2,500 Silver: Sponsors receive acknowledgment on website & event communications as a Silver sponsor, invitations to the online forum, and a special thank you from the podium.
- $1,000 Bronze: Sponsors acknowledged on website & event communications as a Bronze sponsor.
“WEP Beyond Borders was an informative day of listening, learning and play at it’s best with the top female leaders in philanthropy. This forum had a global perspective and opened my eyes to the endless possibilities of collaboration when women come together.”
“Beyond Borders facilitated essential collaboration and tangible progress to work toward the common goal of women’s empowerment. I enjoyed getting to hear the panelist, and mingle with such amazing, influential, and unstoppable female forces. Truly humbling.”
“Inspiring, empowering, full of passion!”
“Coming together with such a diverse group of women, all working towards gender equality, with the goal of collaboration was empowering, inspiring and productive.”
“A [forum] where people were actually interested in supporting each other!”
“It was such a privilege to attend Beyond Borders. [The filled room with] so many accomplished, inspiring women truly inspired me to work towards empowering girls and women!”
