Samantha Karlin, MALD

Samantha Karlin is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Empower Global, a gender consulting firm. Empower works with organizations to help them better recruit, retain, and advance women, and holds bespoke training and workshops around male allyship, women's empowerment, public speaking, and unconscious bias. She has been invited to speak about gender issues at conferences all over the world, from Portugal to Bosnia to India.

Her background spans the public and private sectors, from tech to politics to foreign affairs. She recently left an executive position at a venture backed tech startup in Silicon Valley. Before that, Ms. Karlin was the Director of Global Engagement & Gender Equality at Ashoka, where she led work elevating Ashoka’s female entrepreneurs and designing social entrepreneurship programs targeting women and girls across the world.

She has formerly built coalitions for the Hillary for America campaign, managed the women’s issues portfolio for the US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, developed leadership programs for low income students at Lumni in Peru, and fought extremism and AntiSemitism with the American Jewish Committee in NYC.

Ms. Karlin is the co-author of the book, Syria: A Revolution, which she co-authored with award winning Syrian citizen journalist, Malek Tarboush.

Ms. Karlin holds a Masters of Law and Diplomacy in global gender analysis and conflict resolution from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and her masters thesis looked at the fate of children born of wartime rape.