Next week I'll be returning to Rwanda for a month to work with grassroots women change agents. My non-profit, Global Grassroots (www.globalgrassroots.org), operates the Academy for Conscious Change, a 12-18 month incubator for vulnerable women who have ideas for social change. We help women who are impoverished, war widows, undereducated and survivors of violence start their own non-profit organizations benefiting other women and girls. This June we will host our fifth Academy with 30 amazing women dedicated to fighting domestic violence, illiteracy, prostitution, child rape, and many other issues. I'll be blogging from the field, so stay tuned!

Gretchen