Meet the Women Extraordinaire – 2015

2015 as been an exciting year for the Women Extraordinaire series. As we come to wrap up the year we want to take a few minutes to THANK YOU, our loyal readers for not only reading our interviews but also sending us great feedback on how these interviews have personally inspired you. We are always glad to hear from you. …

Meet the Woman Extraordinaire – Dame Edna Adan Ismail

Edna Adan Ismail is the director and founder of the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland and an activist and pioneer in the struggle for the abolition of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). She was the only woman minister in the Somaliland government until July 2006. In 2007, her name was added to the Medical Mission Hall of Fame of the University of Toledo, …