Giving Compass' Take:

· Global Citizen covers Rachel Brosnahan's call to world leaders to improve learning opportunities for girls at the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women in New York City.

· How are other activists using their platform to support girls education? What are some factors limiting equal education opportunities? How can donors support efforts to support equal education opportunities for girls around the world? 

· Learn how girls education is helping prevent child marriage around the world. 

Actress, activist, and Global Citizen Ambassador Rachel Brosnahan is showing just how fired up she is about girls’ education.

The Emmy Award-winning star of the hit show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel urged world leaders to ensure crisis-affected girls and women can learn on Wednesday night, in the opening speech of a celebration for the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women in New York City.

Co-hosted by the Government of Ireland, the event highlighted Global Citizen’s #SheIsEqual campaign and invited leaders to commit to ending gender inequality.

Brosnahan shared her recent experience visiting Venezuelan refugees in Peru. In February, Brosnahan joined Global Citizen to meet with young children and resilient women in the border town of Tumbes whose lives were devastated in the aftermath of an El Niño event in 2017, and who fled Venezuela’s current humanitarian crisis (more than 3 million people have fled violence, poverty, and hunger in the country since 2015).

“Women are everyday heroes — so many do extraordinary things each day to make life a little better for their families, their communities, their countries, and the world,” Brosnahan said.

Read the full article about girls' education by Erica Sanchez and Leah Rodriguez at Global Citizen.