Joanna Wasmuth
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Social Entrepreneur |
| Introduction | Recognized as the 2009 Global Woman of Influence for her efforts to empower women, Joanna’s guiding passion is to create and lead business ventures that inspire and empower people to flourish, making the world a better place. As a proven entrepreneur, she spent 12 years building an award-winning international marketing agency. But her life took a different path when her eyes were opened to human trafficking, leading to a personal vision to reduce the exploitation of women and children through developing sustainable economic initiatives. Joanna joined World Vision (one of the largest microfinance networks providing small loans in 47 developing countries) and created their first Global Microfinance Marketing division, dramatically increasing recognition and awareness of microfinance, as well as funding to support it. She was recognized with the Excellence in Innovation award for her leadership in creating worldvisionmicro.org (an online platform to fund microloans). Joanna is a visionary who seeks to inspire people to live their dreams and care for the poor in the process. She has traveled to over 50 countries, and is an adviser to many non-profits and small businesses. |
| Interests | Microfinance, Entrepreneurship, Global Business, Women in Business, Ending Poverty |