DISRUPT 4.0 Authors
Being
Marily Mondejar
Foreword
Becoming Influential To Be Influential
Fearless Leader • Grassroots Organizer • Community Advocate
Marily Mondejar has parlayed her success as a business leader and image consultant into founding the successful non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization, the Filipina Women’s Network (FWN). FWN has members in 28 countries and seeks to increase the influence of Filipina women as leaders and policymakers in the private and public sectors. Mondejar has steered the organization to a leading position in the Filipina women community worldwide. Ms. Mondejar’s campaign to re-shape the Filipina image grew out her necessity to elevate the status of Filipina women. In 2001, an internet search for the word Filipina returned millions of hits, including “mail-order brides, sluts, exotic, sexy and submissive wives.” Her plan was to highlight the leadership roles and economic contributions of Filipina women in corporate America, small business, public service, and the government.
As an executive coach and management consultant, she has provided counsel to the senior leadership of prestigious organizations. Ms. Mondejar is recognized for the Image 360®-degree assessment questionnaire, a method for measuring executive image performance and corporate reputation. She has delivered business, career, and image presentations in a variety of formats and has reached over 10,000 participants internationally. A select list of international and trade publications that have quoted Mondejar include The Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, AdWeek, Self, Allure, Working Woman, Black Enterprise, Academy of General Dentistry’s AGD Impact, El Norte (Mexico), Cintermex Magazine (Mexico), Momentum (magazine for Mercedes Benz owners), and various TV, radio and publications in the US, Philippines, Canada, and the UK.
Ms. Mondejar balances her professional life with advocating for other women in the business arena and serves on multiple boards engaged in public service, community, philanthropic, and professional development. She has been appointed to commissions and task forces by San Francisco Mayors Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom, and Edwin Lee. A resident of San Francisco, she has raised two wonderful sons as a single mother and is a proud grandmother of three boys and adores her new great-granddaughter.
Susan Celia Swan
Preface
Visionary Activist • Movement Architect • Dynamic Leader
Susan Celia Swan is an activist, organizer, and producer whose work has centered on the role of art in culture and system change. Instrumental in creating RAINN, Feminist. com, and V-Day, she serves as the Executive Director of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against all women, girls, gender expansive people, and the planet, and sits on the boards of V-Day and Feminist.com.
Susan’s efforts have been integral to developing the V-Day movement, which grew from a one-night benefit to a wide-ranging global non-profit with a presence in over 200 countries and territories. V-Day campaigns have educated communities, changed laws to protect women and girls, and raised well over $120 million in urgently needed funds for groups working to end violence and serve survivors and their families.
Susan oversees all aspects of V-Day, including One Billion Rising and City of Joy, creating and developing campaigns, producing award-winning films and videos, staging artistic events, and managing finance, development, and communications. V-Day has taken Susan across the United States and the world addressing the issue of violence against all women and girls, including the Philippines, Haiti, Kenya, Europe, India, Egypt, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where V-Day opened and supported the City of Joy. In this transformational leadership center, survivors of gender violence turn their pain into power.
Maria Beebe, Ph.D.
Editor
Introduction
Engendering Leadership
Synthesis
Global • Educator • Katipunera
Maria Beebe has expertise in engendering women’s leadership in international development, discourse analysis, and digital technologies for improving quality education. She has a masters in Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University. For over 25 years, Maria has successfully developed large multistakeholder programs that bring together academics, industry practitioners, and policymakers in Africa, Afghanistan, and the Philippines. She led Knowledge Exchanges & Learning Partnerships (KELP) in South Africa (1995), Nettel@Africa in Africa (1996-2005), and Afghan eQuality Alliances in Afghanistan (2006-2009).
Maria has shared her global experience through international conferences, such as the International Leadership Association annual conference, the Internet Governance Forum, and the FWN leadership summit. Maria is on the Fulbright Specialist Program roster and a Department of Anthropology affiliate at Portland State University.
Maria co-edited AfricaDotEdu and edited three books about the leadership of global Filipina women: DISRUPT 1, 2 and 3. Filipina Women: Rising (2018). Maria is a consultant to develop the Asia Open RAN Academy based in the Philippines with an Indo-Pacific focus. Her latest pro-bono initiative is Kaisipan, launched at the time of COVID-19. Kaisipan aims to improve digital capabilities for all educators and learners in the Philippines to contribute to Sustainable development goal 4. Inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.