(In)visible Women Role Models / Today’s Voice tomorrow's Leaders Hackathon

It is evident that migrant women are not sufficiently represented in leadership roles but all are muted. Additionally, and as an organization led by migrant and refugee women, we find it not only challenging to inspire these women to pursue such a path but there are huge gaps of recognition for taking them as women Leaders.  It is a vicious cycle of lack of visibility that instigates a lack of opportunities and motivation to create them. What is clearly needed are more role models in industry, culture, and politics. 

We, as people, instinctively search for role models to look up to, observe, learn from, and even imitate. Someone to inspire us to see our capabilities to take the road less traveled. We eventually forge our own unique course, but it is mostly inspired by people in whom we see ourselves. Not being represented in leadership roles is a message of…