2020 Film Competition Grand Prize Winner: Long Road to Freedom, by by Mariya Dostzadah Goodbrake (Afghanistan and US)
Empower Women Media promotes gender equality, multi-faith harmony & peace building, highlighting women’s stories and solutions. Together with our allied network of partners, we host media fellowships, film festivals, online certificate courses, and leadership events.
Vision
To provide leaders with a tool kit of educational and digital media resources to support gender equality, inter-religious harmony, and peace building in the workplace.
Agenda
TED-style talks
Film festival
Workshops
Networking
Practical tools
Objectives
- Build trust and relationships
- Explore challenges and opportunities
- Share practical tools & resources
- Identify multi-faith champions
- Foster inter-religious harmony in the MENA region.
Marrakech Forum 2023
“Bringing women together to lead an interfaith initiative in business is critically important. United voices transcend barriers and promote mutual understanding between different faiths, bringing a beacon of hope to an often divided world.”
Nezha Alaoui, WOMEN CHOICE
Bring our Media Training to your Team!
Empower Women Media provides leadership training and mentorship through media fellowships and executive forums.
EWM custom designs 1-2 day media trainings to equip professionals to better implement inclusion and gender equity in your workplace. Your colleagues create a “plan of action” that will accelerate your growth objectives and expand your visibility. Our collective efforts contribute to the larger movement of developing female leaders and innovative media strategies to reach millions globally.
Our Strategy
We are leaders serving leaders. Our strategy is to equip women leaders who can have a lasting impact around the globe. Our women are decision makers, influencers and mobilizers, impacting through their organizations on a national level. We convene women at leadership forums, make strategic connections, and follow up afterward to achieve their personal and organizational goals.
We do the following:
• Host leadership forums to introduce network participants and provide media training
• Spotlight the needs and the contributions of women’s initiatives
• Showcase media experts, innovations, & collaborations around the world
• Provide effective story, branding and media strategies to expand our outreach
• Gather focus groups that can research and respond to field driven initiatives
• Encourage participants to co-author goals (which include a plan and a commitment)
• Challenge our high-impact leaders to mentor emerging leaders
• Partner together to create collaborative media projects.
Founder and Director
Shirin Taber is the founder and executive director of Empower Women Media. Additionally, she is an international consultant, media producer and the author of Muslims Next Door (Zondervan/Harper Collins). With an Iranian Muslim father and an American Christian mother, she has lived in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.
With a background in writing, film, non-profits, and cross-cultural training, Shirin assists multiple organizations with digital media initiatives. The Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, Seattle Times, Jerusalem Post, Christianity Today, NewYorkTimes.com and Religion News have featured her work to support women’s empowerment and inter-religious harmony. She has partnered with the George Bush Institute Women’s Leadership Initiative and the United Nations Office for Genocide Prevention to produce media projects focused on women’s rights and countering religious-based violence.
Currently, she directs an annual women’s media fellowship, film festival, online certificate course, Live What You Believe, and leadership development training events in the Middle East, Pakistan and Nigeria. Shirin earned a BA in Literature and two Masters Degrees in Intercultural Studies. She speaks English, Farsi and French.
Contact Shirin at shirin@empowerwomen.media