I am honored to receive the “Woman of Action” Award from Canada!

A celebration of women honours me as a “Woman of Action”. Thank you for this award for female leaders but I would like to dedicate it to those mentioned who trusted in my ability and ” took that leap to an open mind”. Thank you. You made me want to be me to inspire. Xxxooo Cecilia

 Please follow this Cecilia W Yu “Woman of Action” Award   As I explored the life of the other Award winners, I am humbled by their stories and honored to join the list of Award Alumnis who accepted their awards publicly, so graciously.

Women such as:

Feminist Advocate & Icon Gloria Steinem

Dr Loretta Chen the director of The Vagina Monologue and many other controversial projects.

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin for her historic innovation in the scientific field of medicinal chemistry

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sheryl Wu Dunn

Famous Motivational Guru and Healer Louise Hay

Maria Eitel President and CEO of Nike Foundation

Reknown Writer and Civil Rights Activists Maya Angelou

Maria Owings Shriver , Former First Lady of California

Popular fiction writer and Breast cancer charity advocate Barbara Taylor Bradford

Wajeha al-Huwaidar the highest-profile women’s rights advocate in Saudi Arabia

Graça Marcel Former First Lady of South Africa and Mozambique, fully engaged in Humanitarian work.

Poverty Alleviation and Reproductive Expert at the Bill & Melinda Gate foundation Helen.D.Gayle

Fashion Designer Diane von Frstenberg

No.1 Tennis pro champion and founder of Children for Tomorrow Stefanie Graf

My fellow Melbournian, actor NIcole Kidman

x5 Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood

Sabrina Geremia work in smashing the corporate glass ceiling at Google

Sharon Meers strategic work at Ebay

Bestselling Author Katherine Govier

Canadian Trade Unionist Grace Hartman

Film Maker for Social Justice in the Congo Julienne Lusenge

Educator and historian in Pakistan Khalida Brohi

Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid Dr Bogaletch Gebre fighting female circumcision in Ethiopia

Sarah Elizabeth‘s preservation of First Nation herbal knowledge and matriarchal values

Hillary Rodham Clinton

And many more can be found at this A celebration of Woman’s award link

The greatest hero is the one who just shows you the way, not just through the medium of themselves… but, above all, through the medium of yourself. ~ Louëlla Our global Alumni WOMEN of ACTION™ are trailblazers in thisnew millennium. Pioneering the new woman’s movement, a new paradigm of thinking .. that only through female leadership and the achievement of “Equality of Women among Women” will our world ever see a sustainable socioeconomic equality for all woman.