Facilitators
Co-Facilitator: Rachel Knopf Shey, WomenLift Health Instructional Design Lead, Cross Regional
Rachel has spent her 20-year career bridging public health theory and practice while working to achieve health equity. She co-creates much of WomenLift Health’s original content and facilitates global workshops, aligning with her core values of creation and meaningful connection. Prior to working with WomenLift Health, Rachel was a clinician at a community health clinic, directed the public health program a New York City university where she created and ran a leadership program very similar to the WomenLift Health Leadership Journey, and supported global faculty in their pedagogy, learning, & development. Rachel earned her BS in Community Nutrition and her MPH from the University of Michigan, has trained at the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, is certified in ear acupuncture, practices mindfulness meditation, reads voraciously, and loves to bicycle all over the world. She is based in New York City.
Co-Facilitator: Sandhya Gupta, Alumnae Lead, Cross Regional, WomenLift Health
Sandhya joins WomenLift Health after 15 years of managing programs for international non-profits. She has a human rights, social justice, and education background and is a skilled facilitator of intercultural dialogue. Sandhya manages the cross-regional alumnae program at WomenLift Health, where she leads on the design and implementation of the alumnae strategy.
Prior to WomenLift Health, Sandhya spent a decade with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change where she managed government partnerships while based out of New Delhi, India. As Senior Education Advisor for Asia, she oversaw several projects focused on mainstreaming dialogue skills into national government curricula. She trained the Ministries of Education of Pakistan, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malyasia and the Philippines on the prevention of violent extremism through education and managed a network of several hundred schools across South Asia engaged in dialogue training.
Other previous roles include Program Officer for South Asia at America Jewish World Service, where Sandhya managed a portfolio of human rights and social justice grants. Her grant making experience spans a variety of fields including sexual and reproductive health and rights, natural resource rights and gender justice.
Sandhya graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in history and holds an M.A.L.D. in International Conflict Resolution and Negotiation from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She currently lives in Northern Virginia where she enjoys the beautiful hiking and walking trails of the region.
Inclusive Leadership
We envision a world where diverse, accomplished leaders collectively transform health outcomes. To realize that vision, we seek to expand the power and influence of talented mid-career women in health and engage with senior institutional and societal leaders to catalyze systemic change for gender equality in health leadership. We work in East Africa, India, Nigeria, North America, and Southern Africa and continue to explore outreach to other regions.
PowerUp Workshop Series
The PowerUp Workshops series are free and open to mid-career women working in global health in all the regions we work. The workshops are hosted virtually, focus on developing leadership skills, and fostering meaningful connections between women leaders in health within a regional context. The topics rotate with each workshop. We encourage women leaders in global health in each region to join us, and use these workshops as an opportunity to learn, engage with other women leaders, and build community.
Inclusive Leadership
Thursday, April 3, 2025, at 10am–12:30pm PT / 1–3:30pm ET
What does it mean to be an “inclusive leader”? What are concrete steps that you can take as a leader to create a productive work culture where people feel engaged and valued?
In this 2.5-hour workshop, you will:
- Define Inclusive Leadership
- Explore your identities and how they are linked to systems of oppression
- Explore what it feels like to be included vs excluded in the workplace
- Identify steps you can take to become a more inclusive leader
The second of WomenLift Health’s Four Pillars of Leadership, Inclusive Leadership, is at the foundation of creating a work culture where diverse people and teams are hired, engaged, and promoted—and want to stay. Research shows that diverse teams perform either well below or well above monocultural teams; the difference is whether the teams are led inclusively.
Inclusive leaders explore their own identity on a path to a deeper understanding of how identity impacts their own and others’ experiences of inclusion and exclusion.
Explore multiple facets of your identity and how they impact experiences of inclusion and exclusion at work, learn how cycles of discrimination and oppression play out in the workplace, and identify steps you can take to become a more inclusive leader.
Registration Details
You are eligible for the workshop if you meet all of the following criteria:
- Identify as a woman
- Live and work in North America (Canada and U.S.)
- Are a mid-career global health professional*
This virtual workshop will be conducted in the English language and is free of cost.
WomenLift Health PowerUp Workshops are interactive. By signing up, participants agree to participate in the full session, which includes plenary discussions and breakout group activities.
Enrollment will be on a first-come-first-served basis, as spots are limited.
*Although women at all career stages are welcome to register, we believe participants who are at the mid-career stage will benefit most, as the content of the workshop has been designed with mid-career women health professionals in mind (10–25 years of experience working in the global health sector). If the number of registrants exceeds our capacity, women who are within the preferred experience range will be given priority.
Registrants should await an email confirming their spot in the workshop. Please check your spam folders if you did not receive an email.
Facilitators
Co-Facilitator: Rachel Knopf Shey, WomenLift Health Instructional Design Lead, Cross Regional
Rachel has spent her 20-year career bridging public health theory and practice while working to achieve health equity. She co-creates much of WomenLift Health’s original content and facilitates global workshops, aligning with her core values of creation and meaningful connection. Prior to working with WomenLift Health, Rachel was a clinician at a community health clinic, directed the public health program a New York City university where she created and ran a leadership program very similar to the WomenLift Health Leadership Journey, and supported global faculty in their pedagogy, learning, & development. Rachel earned her BS in Community Nutrition and her MPH from the University of Michigan, has trained at the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, is certified in ear acupuncture, practices mindfulness meditation, reads voraciously, and loves to bicycle all over the world. She is based in New York City.
Co-Facilitator: Sandhya Gupta, Alumnae Lead, Cross Regional, WomenLift Health
Sandhya joins WomenLift Health after 15 years of managing programs for international non-profits. She has a human rights, social justice, and education background and is a skilled facilitator of intercultural dialogue. Sandhya manages the cross-regional alumnae program at WomenLift Health, where she leads on the design and implementation of the alumnae strategy.
Prior to WomenLift Health, Sandhya spent a decade with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change where she managed government partnerships while based out of New Delhi, India. As Senior Education Advisor for Asia, she oversaw several projects focused on mainstreaming dialogue skills into national government curricula. She trained the Ministries of Education of Pakistan, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malyasia and the Philippines on the prevention of violent extremism through education and managed a network of several hundred schools across South Asia engaged in dialogue training.
Other previous roles include Program Officer for South Asia at America Jewish World Service, where Sandhya managed a portfolio of human rights and social justice grants. Her grant making experience spans a variety of fields including sexual and reproductive health and rights, natural resource rights and gender justice.
Sandhya graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in history and holds an M.A.L.D. in International Conflict Resolution and Negotiation from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She currently lives in Northern Virginia where she enjoys the beautiful hiking and walking trails of the region.
We envision a world where diverse, accomplished leaders collectively transform health outcomes. To realize that vision, we seek to expand the power and influence of talented mid-career women in health and engage with senior institutional and societal leaders to catalyze systemic change for gender equality in health leadership. We work in East Africa, India, Nigeria, North America, and Southern Africa and continue to explore outreach to other regions.
PowerUp Workshop Series
The PowerUp Workshops series are free and open to mid-career women working in global health in all the regions we work. The workshops are hosted virtually, focus on developing leadership skills, and fostering meaningful connections between women leaders in health within a regional context. The topics rotate with each workshop. We encourage women leaders in global health in each region to join us, and use these workshops as an opportunity to learn, engage with other women leaders, and build community.
Inclusive Leadership
Thursday, April 3, 2025, at 10am–12:30pm PT / 1–3:30pm ET
What does it mean to be an “inclusive leader”? What are concrete steps that you can take as a leader to create a productive work culture where people feel engaged and valued?
In this 2.5-hour workshop, you will:
- Define Inclusive Leadership
- Explore your identities and how they are linked to systems of oppression
- Explore what it feels like to be included vs excluded in the workplace
- Identify steps you can take to become a more inclusive leader
The second of WomenLift Health’s Four Pillars of Leadership, Inclusive Leadership, is at the foundation of creating a work culture where diverse people and teams are hired, engaged, and promoted—and want to stay. Research shows that diverse teams perform either well below or well above monocultural teams; the difference is whether the teams are led inclusively.
Inclusive leaders explore their own identity on a path to a deeper understanding of how identity impacts their own and others’ experiences of inclusion and exclusion.
Explore multiple facets of your identity and how they impact experiences of inclusion and exclusion at work, learn how cycles of discrimination and oppression play out in the workplace, and identify steps you can take to become a more inclusive leader.
Registration Details
You are eligible for the workshop if you meet all of the following criteria:
- Identify as a woman
- Live and work in North America (Canada and U.S.)
- Are a mid-career global health professional*
This virtual workshop will be conducted in the English language and is free of cost.
WomenLift Health PowerUp Workshops are interactive. By signing up, participants agree to participate in the full session, which includes plenary discussions and breakout group activities.
Enrollment will be on a first-come-first-served basis, as spots are limited.
*Although women at all career stages are welcome to register, we believe participants who are at the mid-career stage will benefit most, as the content of the workshop has been designed with mid-career women health professionals in mind (10–25 years of experience working in the global health sector). If the number of registrants exceeds our capacity, women who are within the preferred experience range will be given priority.
Registrants should await an email confirming their spot in the workshop. Please check your spam folders if you did not receive an email.
