Gayle Lemmon is a journalist, author, and fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and an advocate for the economic empowerment of women.

She is also a contributing editor-at-large for Newsweek Daily Beast.

Lemmon travels the world reporting on economic and development issues with a focus on women. 

Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, artist, founder of The Webby Awards, and co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.

A celebrated thinker and catalyst, Tiffany is known for her ability to illuminate complex ideas in culture, science, technology and life through her unique films and her dynamic talks and projects.

She has been named by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century.” Here's some of what she had to say at TEDxWomen 2011...

“I hadn't thought about it,” said award-winning science writer Jessa Gamble.

We sat side-by-side in the theater at Ted Global 2010 in Oxford, UK, chatting as we waited for the next in a lineup of stellar speakers (of which 29% were women), at one of the world's premier conferences (TED basics here: TED 101 (Or TED For Dummies)).