Jennifer James, USA

Jennifer James is the founder of Social Good Moms, a news site about pressing global issues for women and girls. She has written over 70 articles for the Gates Foundation and has written for women's and girls' issues for ELLE and Cosmo South Africa, and Huffington Post's Impact. She has been named a Fast Company Most Generous Social Media Maven and a ONE.org social media game-changer. Jennifer has reported about women's and girls' issues in Africa, Asia, and South America. She currently serves as an Oxfam Sisters on the Planet.

In this episode, Jennifer discusses what inspired her, as an early mom blogger, to launch Social Good Moms in 2012, creating a website community for about 25,000 mom bloggers… partnering with nonprofit organizations to spread awareness about global health issues, particularly maternal health issues as well as child and adolescent health issues… organizing mom bloggers online to create a community sharing information about the work nonprofit organizations were doing to address global health issues that women and girls faced… being among ten mom bloggers chosen by One.org to travel to Kenya to report on women’s health issues… identifying opportunities for mom bloggers to visit other countries with nonprofit organizations, blogging to raise awareness of health issues and to support positive change… as a mother, wanting to create a world that is better for her daughters… her interest in building a new community of women who want to increase awareness of women’s and children’s health issues here in the United States and globally… the importance of having “the voices of everyday moms be heard”... the opportunity for new moms to feel empowered to use their platforms for good… and encouraging us all to chase the things we are passionate about because, as Jennifer says, “Don't wait! Chase it and you might really surprise yourself.”