Skoll | 2020 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship: Virtual

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Session Description

Note: The live broadcast took place on April 2, but you can watch the recording above or here.

The 2020 Skoll World Forum is cancelled, but the Awards will go on! Save the date for the 2020 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship and join our community in celebration of five incredible organizations driving transformative social change. We’ll hear their stories of innovation, disruption, and how they’ve embraced collective approaches to advance a vision of a more sustainable and just world.

We’ll reveal Awardee organizations via livestream on Thursday, April 2 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST. We hope you’ll watch the 2020 Skoll Awards Ceremony with your family, colleagues, or local community.

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HOST: Pat Mitchell, Founder & President, Pat Mitchell Media
Board Member, Skoll Foundation

FEATURING:
Recipients of the 2020 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship

PERFORMANCES: by George The Poet and Francisca Valenzuela

Watch at https://skoll.org/live
or any of these social media channels:

http://facebook.com/skollfoundation
http://youtube.com/skollfoundation
http://twitter.com/skollfoundation

Time & Location

Time:

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Thursday, April 2, 2020 BST

Location:

https://skoll.org/live
http://facebook.com/skollfoundation
http://youtube.com/skollfoundation
http://twitter.com/skollfoundation

Speakers

Pat Mitchell

Moderator

Co-Founder/Editorial Director TEDWomen; Managing Partner, Connected Women Leaders, Pat Mitchell Media

Throughout her career as an award-winning journalist, producer and media executive, Pat Mitchell broke new ground for women as the first woman President of PBS and of CNN Productions. Today, Pat is a co-founder, host and curator for TEDWomen and co-founder and managing partner of ConnectedWomenLeaders, a cohort of global women leaders, across generations and geography, who are launching a global, women-led campaign for climate justice titled Project Dandelion. She is Chair Emeritus of the Sundance Institute and just received the Vanguard Award for philanthropy. She also serves on the board of The Skoll Foundation, Participant Media, The Woodruff Arts Center, and the VDAY movement to end violence; she’s also a member of CARE’s Global Advisory Council and Chair Emeritus of the Women’s Media Center which established an annual award in her name. In her memoir, “Becoming a Dangerous Woman,” Mitchell shares her journey as a frontline advocate for a just, equitable and sustainable world.

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