Our Network
Empower Women Media is an allied network which seeks to promote inter-religious harmony through media, education and strategic leadership gatherings.
Our goal is to provide leaders with a tool kit of educational and media resources that support multi-faith collaboration in the workplace & civil society. Highlighting the values of the Abrahamic faiths, we seek to foster societies where everyone is free to live what they believe.
Vision
To advance freedom of religion or belief (FoRB), highlighting the critical stories and solutions of women advocates.
Agenda
Expert panels
Film screenings
Networking
Strategy building
Objectives
Build trust and relationships
Explore challenges and opportunities
Share practical tools & resources
Identify multi-faith champions
Foster peace building in the MENA region.
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 the Abraham Women’s Alliance, Live What You Believe online certificate course, 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