Pittsburgh entrepreneur Leah Lizarondo, a 2020 Vital Voices Global Leadership Award honoree, is the co-founder and CEO of 412 Food Rescue, which harnesses the power of technology and generosity of everyday people to prevent more than 10 million pounds of good food from going to landfills. She was honored alongside Dolls Clan, a feminist graffiti duo in Honduras; Obiageli Ezekwesili, co-founder of #BringBackOurGirls and world-renowned economic expert from Nigeria; and Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist. The Awards took place on March 11, 2020, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
For over two decades, Vital Voices has partnered with more than 18,000 women leaders in 182 countries and territories to increase economic opportunity, improve political and public leadership, bring an end to violence against women and solve the world’s greatest challenges. Co-founded by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vital Voices provides programs in strategic planning, business, advocacy, leadership development and communications that build critical skills for scaling transformational change worldwide. Past winners of the Global Leadership Awards include Melinda Gates, Diane von Furstenberg, and Amanda Nguyen, among many others.
About 412 Food Rescue:
Driven by the belief that good food belongs to people, not landfills, 412 Food Rescue launched in March 2015 to redirect healthy food to nonprofits that serve food insecure populations. In the U.S., 40% of food produced is wasted while 1 in 9 people goes hungry. Focusing on the logistics challenges of retail food recovery, 412 Food Rescue addresses both problems through technology-coordinated, community-powered networks. 412FoodRescue.org
About Vital Voices:
Vital Voices Global Partnership is an international non-profit organization that identifies and partners with creative and fearless women leaders around the world. Vital Voices searches the world for women leaders with daring vision for change, then partners with them to make that vision a reality. VitalVoices.org
