Female Authors - America
Prof. Ona C. Miller
Global Educator, Organizational Leader, Female Civility Initiative™, The Founder of The Global Library of Female Authors™, The Global Female Publishing Group™, The Global Female Civility Leadership Institute™
Professor Ona is a Global Educator with a Doctorate of Education and Professorship. She is the Founder and Creator of Female Civility and her Female Civility Initiative. Dr. Ona has included several subsidiaries for the Female Civility Initiative. The Global Library of Female Author™, The Global Female Publishing Group™, and The Global Female Civility Leadership Institute™. s She is also the Female Civility Icon and Founder of "National Female Civility Day" Established in 2019 in conjunction with her Female Civility Global Initiative. She is a Doctoral Dissertation Content Expert, Ambassador and Stateswoman. She has received a World Greatness Award and Inducted into the World Book of Greatness as a Icon of Greatness with Greatness University in London, UK.
Female Civility eradicates preset stigmas and judgments that were established by an unlearned society. The Female Civility Initiative was created to make a change in cultural and societal perceptions and relationships. The focused goals of the initiative are to break existing barriers and build bridges for Females globally.
Mrs. Divya Harlall
Award-winning International Best Selling Author, Beauty Queen, YouTuber and Full-Time Mom
Divya is dedicated to using her experience as a first time mom to help other parents and parents-to-be, especially moms through her YouTube channel that focuses on parents and expectant mothers. Her aim is to help parents and expectant parents maintain good mental health by getting down to the necessities by saving resources and sanity. Divya also highlights the realities of parenthood which to alleviate surprises which can cause stress.
Divya became an entrepreneur in her early 20's and has represented Guyana internationally as Miss India Guyana 2014. Her passion is helping underprivileged communities.
Dr. Vicki Harris
Sr. Vice President of Global Human Resources at Our Daily Bread Ministries and Global Women Who Lead
Dr. Vicki Harris is the Sr. Vice President of Global Human Resources at Our Daily Bread Ministries, This is a Global Ministry with 38 offices around the world. Their mission is to make the life changing wisdom of the Bible understandable and accessible to all people and all nations. Vicki is also the Founder of Global Women Who Lead. A global initiative to equip, empower and enrich the lives of women in leadership and also for those aspiring to lead. Vicki, travels around the world, teaching, training Discipleship, Business, Human Resource Disciplines, and Organizational and Leadership Development.
Vicki is the Executive Pastor & Leadership Liaison, under the leadership of Dr. Jermone T. & Erica Glenn and Revolution Culture Movement. She serves on the Executive Team, and oversees the Woman 2 Woman Mentoring programs for the Ministry as well.
Nadia Watson-Anthony
Christian Maturity Mentorship Program
Nadia is the founder of Christian Maturity Mentorship Program, she is a sponsor for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, she donates to a Mission (yearly ladies' day) in Togo West Africa and a is great contributor of Sunrise Pregnancy Support Center. Nadia is also the Founder of H.E.R Inspiration. H.E.R. Inspiration is a service that searches for women and give them an equal opportunity to be an inspiration to the world through their book writing.
Nadia is passionate about all creation, education, leadership, empowerment and her faith.
Michelle Jones
Founder of FREE2BEMJ
Michelle Jones Consulting
Michelle Jones also known as Free2BEMJ is a dynamic, dedicated professional who is committed to service. She teaches individuals how to be free and stand in their truth by using her T.R.U.S.T Strategy which is True Relationship Understanding Self Totally.
Michelle has launched her Free To Be “The Ruler” Clarity Course teaching individuals how to have a clear blueprint that sets the standard to be free to be who they were created & destined to be. She is known as the Author of her self titled book Free To Be Ms. Jones. She also spends some of her time acting in theater plays as a Performing Arts Actress.
Dana Ray Bennett
Women and Minority Leadership Advocate
Financial Strategist, Public Speaker and Author
Dana Ray Bennett is a sincere and unapologetic advocate for women and minorities in leadership. With over 18 years of experience in Corporate America, Dana founded Kingdom, Inc. to help serve churches, non-profit organizations and small businesses capitalize on proven strategies. She specializes in financial compliance, leadership development, mission/legacy planning, team building, and communication. Dana travels as a public speaker, author, and trainer. When she is not helping organizations grow, Dana is serving as co-pastor at her local church where she diligently pours into others without reserve. She is also a licensed broker and professional real estate investor.
Dana counts it an honor to have the opportunity to speak via various platforms from boardrooms to pulpits. She is a wife, mother, business owner, pastor, public speaker, author, and leadership strategist – most of all she is a daughter of the King.
MEejie Chaparro-Taverso
Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Consultant and Founder
MEejie™ is a speaker, trainer, coach, consultant, and founder of MEej™ LLC (Motivational Empowering Energetic Journeys LLC). She holds a masters, in human relations and countless certifications in business and prevention, education, advocacy and intervention related programs. MEejie™ specializes on the delivery of programs and services geared towards optimizing human capital. She’s developed a methodology that utilizes education, assessment, skills development, hand-on immersion, actionable goal setting, and coaching to help improve performance, productivity and physiological and psychological health and wellness of individuals. A primary objective, her work seeks to unify people and build communities who come together and stand strong in role modeling behaviors and actions that help motivate, inspire, elevate and empower others.
Lauren Chelec Cafritz
Breathwork Teacher, Speaker and Author
Lauren Chelec Cafritz is an internationally known breathwork teacher, speaker, and the author of Breath LOVE. As the founder of Experience Breath, she facilitates breathwork for executive teams, nonprofits, government agencies, corporations, hospitals, and schools. She also has led hundreds of retreats, conferences, trainings, and workshops across the country.
Breath LOVE is an engaging book that brings breathwork to everyone in a fun and accessible way. Lauren brings breathwork to its essence and empowers people to see that anything is possible when they connect their breath.
Gaby Juergens
Homefront Girl® UK - International Brand
Former military spouse, and daughter of a Veteran, Gaby Juergens created her studio after living the life for over 28+ years. The Homefront Collection by Homefront Girl® is resonating with those who share and love their hero …every day in countless ways. Inspiring, empowering messages and designs that speak to the emotions of those serving and supporting their heroes.
For Gaby, it has also become a way of paying it forward to our wounded warriors and their families and our veterans. “A debt that can never truly be repaid for the sacrifices made,” Juergens states, she adds one of her favorite quotes by Henry Drummond, “When you look back at your life, the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done something in the spirit of love.”
Maria Santiago-Valentin
Ambassador, Teacher, Consultant
Maria Santiago-Valentín is a Learning Disabilities Consultant since 2014, Mindfulness Educator, Applied Behavior Analysis Technician, and case manager. One of Maria's graduate degrees is a M.A. in Literary Translation (English/French/Spanish). She worked 23 years ago in a project/thesis on literary translation of one of the co-Founders of la Créolité, Dr. Raphaël Confiant.
Maria also served as one of the plaintiffs in the "Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding" which sought to ensure that adequate funding was being "distributed equitably based on student learning needs, fair measures of town wealth, and fidelity to the tax equalization principles underlying the ECS. She was a Spanish and French teacher since 1992, and became World Language Department Chair in 2011. She was Cooperating Teacher and Mentor for students of education at Seton Hall University. Maria appears listed as Behavior Analysis Therapist in the International Directory BA-eService of ABA French Speaking providers published by the Université de Lille III of Nantes, France.
Monique Peoples
Fashion Stylist
Monique Peoples began her career as one of a quartet of singers in the r &b Motown records 90's group "SHADES".
Charting on billboard’s top 100 for weeks in the summer of 1996, with their hit "Tell Me l'll Be Around."
In 1991 her career as a stylist began as a young graduate showing her passion for beauty, fashion and movie making, earning her way through years on to the sets of some of the top movies in Hollywood her first one being the commercial and now cult classic "BRIDE WARS" in 2007. From top commercial videos to movie sets, she has garnered accolades for her innate sense of what complements her clients the best.
Today Monique is continuing to follow her passion at the Frank Antonio Salon in Newport, one of the most sought after venues in the area, as one of their lead stylist specializing in natural hair care and custom cut and color, extensions and hair pieces. She became a licensed instructor in 2007 in the state of Rhode Island.
Cordelia Gaffar
Strategist, Host, Sponsor and Advocate
Cordelia Gaffar is the Emotions Opener Transformation Strategist guiding woman leaders to use their darkest and most difficult emotions to show up powerfully.
Cordelia Gaffar is the Powerhouse Global Best Podcast Host of 2019 in the UK and the ACHI magazine Volunteer of the Year and finalist for Top Influencer and Orator of the Year. She is best-selling co-author of America’s Leading Ladies: who positively impact the world with several other dynamic women. So far in 2020, she has hit best seller again with the 1 Habit for Success SmartFem Edition by Lea Woodford and has been selected Ambassador of Peace by INSPAD and Director for the USA chapter. Her own book related to her Replenish Me Process will be released later in 2020.
Dr. Bindu Babu
Physician, Transformational Coach, Global Ambassador, Author, Entrepreneur
Dr. Bindu Babu is a successful Integrative Physician & Celebrity Transformational Coach. She’s been awarded New York’s Most Powerful Women in Business 2019 and was vetted and selected to become a member of the Forbes Business Council, 2020.
Dr. Babu is the Global Goodwill Ambassador, USA and Global Peace Chain Ambassador, USA. She is a successful entrepreneur where she is trained in the Quantum methodologies of healing helping her clients all over the world.
Monica Sekhmet Grant
A leader, an entrepreneur and a role model in the modern media business
Monica Sekhmet Grant is the true definition of a Young Boss. She’s been employing workers, building organizations, and producing her own products since her college days. A native of Ypsilanti Michigan but raised in North Augusta South Carolina, Monica studied business at Delaware State University because she wanted to understand how some people continued to get richer while others remained poor.
After college, Monica moved to New York City and made a career of empowering Black and Brown communities through life coaching and community organizing. “One builds personal power while the other build collective power. Each one is vital and should not be isolated.” Monica is an advocate for economic justice and fairness, for all communities especially her own. She believes that most men and women of African descent naturally desire to live in safe prosperous communities that support economic growth.
Dr. Karen D.Lomax
Command Chaplain, Counselor, Author and founder of I’M A H.E.R.R.S. GIRL Network
Dr. Karen D. Lomax is considered a change agent in the field of life coaching, mentoring, and Christian counseling. She has created an international platform where men, women, boys, and girls of all ages, race, and nationalities have the opportunity to feel empowered and have their voices heard. Dr. Lomax is the Founder and President of Karen Lomax Ministries, KAIROS Literary Agency, H.E.R.R.S. LLC Professional Life Coaching and H.I.S. outreach ministry. Dr. Lomax has become an influential voice in women’s empowerment and in May 2018, she founded and launched the H.E.R.R.S. Life Coaching Academy to provide training and mentorship for other professional life coaches. In 2019, she founded and launched I’M A H.E.R.R.S. GIRL Network to collaborate with other organizations to equip and empower women and girls on a global scale. Through this initiative, her and her organization partnered with the Ubuhle Foundation in Midrand, South Africa to provide over 1,000 female hygiene kits to school-aged girls to help keep them in school.
Diane Curley
Founder of Celebrating Women LLC, eWomenNetwork, Medical Director and Nurse
I believe in the transformative power of real-world human connection. I know that when people come together, our impact is more powerful. That's why my mission is to create exceptional experiences (in person/online/remote/virtual) that spark engagement, enable change, and enrich lives – to move people, healthcare, and business forward and in the right direction.
A Registered Nurse by profession, I serve at the intersection of leadership & service, providing expert clinical education, compassionate healthcare, & professional oversight & supervision to ensure quality & safety for the healthcare team and the community on Long Island.
Dr. Celina Pina Shemo
Founder and CEO of VGI Mental Health,
The Ambassador of Emotional Health and International Best-Selling Author
Dr. Celina is the founder and CEO of VGI Mental Health, a 501 C3, non-profit organization, providing services to diverse populations. Dr. Celina has been in private practice for 27 years and is recognized for her distinguished clinical proficiencies, particularly in the area of trauma and abuse. In 2011, Dr. Celina integrated emotional health into her practice focusing on the impact of emotional health on abuse and trauma survivors. She also created a “Train the Trainer Curriculum” for enhancing clinician’s skills in the area of emotional health and trauma. In 2019, she developed the “Emotional Health Coaching Institute,” which will train and certify coaches in the area of emotional health. Dr. Celina’s is a holistic clinical practitioner with a global presence. Dr. Celina believes that emotional health has been underemphasized in the clinical arena and is the key to understanding the thread to mental health. “It is important that we excrete those challenging emotions in order to optimize emotional freedom and detour from encumbering mental health complexities”
Tonya McNeal-Weary
Global Entrepreneur | International Business Expert | World Traveler | Advocate for Women Empowerment
Tonya McNeal-Weary is an award-winning entrepreneur, international business expert, world traveler, author and global champion for women's economic empowerment. She is the Founder and Managing Director of IBS Global Consulting, a global management consulting firm that specialize in helping small and medium-sized companies expand internationally.
For over a decade, Tonya has been helping entrepreneurs and small businesses connect to global markets. She travels to countries across the globe working with and advising entrepreneurs, CEOs and owners of small businesses on how to "Think Global" and develop disruptive marketing strategies that sets them apart from the competition.
Nina Kennedy
World-renowned Concert Pianist, Orchestral Conductor, and Award-Winning Filmmaker.
Nina Kennedy is a world-renowned concert pianist, orchestral conductor, and award-winning filmmaker. She gave her first complete piano recital at nine years old, and appeared as piano soloist with the Nashville Symphony playing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue at age 13 before an audience of over 4,000. She holds a master's degree from the Juilliard School where she studied with Leonard Bernstein. Kurt Masur acted as her conducting mentor during his tenure as music director with the New York Philharmonic and L'Orchestre National de France. For 12 years she lived and performed in Europe, residing in Amsterdam, Vienna, Cologne, and Paris.
Basma Alawee
Executive Director of WeaveTales
Born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq, Basma came to the U.S. with her husband as a refugee in 2010, leaving behind her career as an engineer with the Ministry of Oil within the Government of Iraq. As a refugee and activist, her stories and activism have been featured in the media. Most recently, she was nominated to be one of the Athena40 women in the world who are leading change and was the recipient of the 2019 OneJax Humanitarian Award. She was also elected the Florida delegate for the UNHCR Refugee Congress and is a board member of USAHello (formerly, Refugee Center Online) and many other nonprofits. Currently, she is the State Refugee Organizer with the Florida Immigrant Coalition and resides in Jacksonville.
We bring the stories of millions of refugees around the world out to the public to change the way we see refugees and immigrants through storytelling. Reach out to us to have your stories heard or to learn more about the stories of refugees.
Teresa Egana
“A WOMAN WITHOUT MOLDES” Adventurer | Life Taster | Nature Lover | Entrepreneur TRANSFORMATIONAL SPEAKER FOR THE FEMENINE & PRODUCTIVE LIFE
Founder/CEO of MUJER WOW LLC, which purpose is TO LIVE WELL DOING WELL. Passionate about Femenine Arquetipal Intelligence with + 20 years sharing her sensuous wisdom with women all over the world .
Creator of: MINDSETWOW© + Archetypes of the Feminine Productive Woman© + RUTA DE ÉXITO G.E.A.© | Pioneer of STARTUPS SYSTEMIC CONSTELATIONS | Certified Director of Incubators & masterTRAINER at BOOTCAMP MUJER WOW | Certified B-Multiplicator for the Triple Impact and Promotor of the SDO / ONU in Entrepreneurs | co-Creator of ATI CERTIFICACTION (Asesoras de Triple Impacto).
Paqui Garcia
Educator, Mentor, Organizer, Developer and Feminist
Certificate of higher education of equality with the work TFC "An inclusive educational view, in girls and women with high intellectual capacity". Master in Development of Intelligence, Higher Capacity and Neuropsychology. (UCJC). Expert in gender violence, co-educational education, affective-sexual education and feminism in politics.
Mentor and lecturer in training courses for teachers on early identification of girls with high intellectual capacity, prevention of gender violence, and co-educational approaches for students, at the Department of Education in Valencia (Spain).
Laura Giadorou Koch, Esq
Juris Doctor (JD) and Master of laws
Chief Engagement Office
Lawyer, impact investor, system social entrepreneur and philanthropist for over two decade focusing on microfinance, innovation technologies, education and gender issues. Founder and Chief Engagement Officer for B Women Solutions a global network of women entrepreneurs who advocate for inclusive and regenerative business, seeking to balance purpose and profits in the markets towards a “Caring Economy” focused on human well-being, happiness and fulfillment as well as respect and accountability towards the environment.
For the last decade was CEO of Dolium Bodega Subterranea, a B Certified Company (B Corp), awarded since 2014 “The Best for the World: Environment” by B Lab.org.
Rosalee Gage-Grey MSc., BBA
Senior Executive, Public Servant, Ministry of Finance
A Senior Executive with over 25 years experience, she began her career in the Public Service in 1987 in the then Income Tax Department. After successfully completing the Revenue Agents scholarship programme, she was assigned to the Ministry of Finance in October 1989 and served in the Revenue Services and is one of the pioneers in the General Consumption Tax Department Audit. She served as Director Audit at the Taxpayer Audit and Assessment Department and Acting Technical Specialist.
Since 2003, she has held the position of Director of Human Resource and Administration at the Child Development Agency (CDA) now the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) where she has led the Agency’s island wide staff recruitment; developed and guided human resource policy, and provided oversight for operational matters.
As a member of the Executive Management Team, she has been involved in spearheading the strategic restructuring of the children’s services in Jamaica in keeping with the modernization plan and framework document.
Dr. Ana Goffin
Psychotherapist, Speaker, Teacher, Counselor and Writer
Ana Goffin, born in Mexico, is a Belgian Mexican national. She holds a Bachelor of Industrial Relations but as a woman always in search for betterment, an attitude that has led her to explore various paths of growth and training: delved into new industries Literature, Human Development and Psychology.
Her intense personal search has been reflected in five essay books an a novel: ¿Brujas o histéricas?, (Witches or hysterics?) De brujas y Suegras, (of Witches and Mother-in-Laws) La culpa tras la Ventana (The guilt behind the window), Cómo desaparecer una ballena y otras fñabulas del empoderamiento (How to disappear a whale and other fables of empowerment), La tinta de su piel (The ink on her skin) . In October 2020 “En la boca del Cococodrilo” (In the crocodile´s mouth) will be ready in a binational publication (Fig Factor Media and Libros del Márqués). Ana´s dream is to empower women and work with victims of violence and sexual abuse. This new book tells the story of a lot of women. Including hers.
Jacqueline Camacho
Marketing & Public Relations Guru, Book Publisher, Pilot
Jacqueline Camacho is a visionary social entrepreneur that has created an enterprise of inspiration. Her keen sense of service coupled with the vision to bring good to the world have led her to create two successful award-winning companies, establish two nonprofit organizations, publish 22 books, create over 10 products, and has held dozens of events around the world in just the past decade.
She is often referred to as a "dream catcher" as her strategies have supported thousands of women, authors and young ladies to live a life of significance. Jacqueline's quest to be a servant leader extends to every area of her life. She has shared her inspiration in four continents and aligned with some of the most powerful brands to elevate others. At only 36 years of age, she has achieved what most would not do in an entire lifetime. Being a cancer survivor sparked a sense of urgency to serve and transcend.
Ina K. Miller
Teacher, Mentor, Advocate, Author, Writer, and Vocal Coach
Ina K. Miller is a Teacher, Mentor, Advocate, Author, Writer, and Vocal Coach, who currently resides in Tyler, Texas. She is the proud mother of one son and the proud grandmother of one granddaughter. She has more than thirteen years of educational experience and has an extreme passion for cultivating, motivating, encouraging and building the lives of high school students. As a teacher, Ina believes those who are truly called to teach, understand that learning is a never-ending process.
As a Teacher and Advocate, Ina seeks to eradicate the disparities certain cultures face in education, which discourages cultural appreciation and true identity. Ina created “NCU”©, “No Culture Unnoticed”© in March of 2019.