Zainab Salbi is a globally celebrated humanitarian, author, and journalist. People Magazine named her as one of the “25 Women Changing the World,” Foreign Policy Magazine named her as one of the “100 Leading Global Thinkers.” Zainab is co-founder of DaughtersforEarth.org, Chief Awareness Officer at FindCenter.com, and host of the Redefined podcast that explores what happens when life’s biggest challenges lead us on a transformative search for what matters most. 

Zainab is the author of four books, including the national bestseller Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam and her latest, Freedom Is an Inside Job: Owning Our Darkness and Our Light to Heal Ourselves and The World.   She is the creator and host of several shows, including #MeToo, Now What? on PBS, and Through Her Eyes with Zainab Salbi at Yahoo News. 

At the age of 23, Zainab founded Women for Women International, a humanitarian development non-profit dedicated to serving women survivors of war by offering support, tools, and access to life-changing skills to move from crisis and poverty to stability and economic self-sufficiency.  From initially helping 30 women, the organization has grown to help over 519,000 women from eight conflict zones, and Zainab distributed $146 million dollars in aid and microloans for these women and their families to rebuild their lives..