Thais Corral (Brazil)

Founder, SINAL School for Agents of Transformation; Co-Founder, Women’s Environment & Development Organization; Member, Rising Women Rising World

Laureate of 100 Heroines Award; Woman of the Year 2001 of Brazil’s National Women’s Council

Thais Corall was recognized as “Woman of the year 2001” by the Brazilian National Council of Women. She is also the recipient of the “100 Heroines Award”, the “Award Abril Mulher” for her contribution to the improvement of the status of women in Brazil.

She is Founder of Sinal do Vale, a platform that educates youth on embracing social entrepreneurial projects and helps identify opportunities that articulate synchronicity, innovation and well-being. She is the co-chair of the global Leadership Network. As part of the Women’s Global Movement, Thais Corral was one of the leaders who actively participated at the Earth Summit in 1992. Together with American Congress representative, Bella Abzug and Nobel Award winner, Wangari Mathaai, she founded Women’s Environment and Development Organization.

Thais is the founder and current director of two established and nationally recognized non-profit organizations in Brasil: Rede de Desenvolvimento Humano (REDEH) and Communication, Education and Information on Gender (CEMINA). As a social entrepreneur, Thais conceived and implemented a woman’s radio network which links 400 female radio programs to their communities throughout Brazil.

Thais holds a master degree from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She serves on the advisory board of Ethical Market Place, Mercado Etico and the Akatu Institute for Conscious Consumption. She also coordinates the Adapta Sertao Project which received a SEED Award in 2008 for its innovative contribution in sustainable development. Adapta Sertao is internationally referenced as a valuable model in creating adaptive strategies to climate change conditions in semi-arid regions of the world. Recently she also founded the Center for Innovation and Sustainability Vista Alegre, that focuses on strategies to build resilient communities in peri-urban settings. www.sinaldovale.org

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EVENT DETAILS  – HOW TO JOIN

8 March 2017, TIME: 10AM (Toronto), 3pm (UK), 4pm (Paris)

This is a launch event of Theatre of Transformation Academy, generously supported by WEWorld Network, in partnership with Rising Women Rising World.

Zahira, Thais & Annie are Founding Circle mentors of Theatre of Transformation Academy.

You are invited to visit/join this transformative community, to share your testimony and enact your vision of transformation