Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov Participates in Podcast on Women's Empowerment

Professor Elizabeth Milovidov participated in a podcast on women's empowerment produced by the US State Department's Africa Regional Services at the US Embassy in France. This podcast was part of the Africa Conversations monthly series, which brings together Americans and Africans from all walks of life to talk about US and African issues.

This edition focused on the issue of gender equality and women's empowerment as one that is at the forefront of the US Foreign Policy. It explored the way this issue plays out particularly in the professional arena, with a discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s best-selling book Lean In (New York: Knopf, 2013).

Fellow guests on the show included Carole Da Silva, founder and director of the French non-governmental organization AFIP (Association pour Favoriser l'Integration Professionnelle), which acts for the non-discrimination of immigrant minorities in the workplace.

Dr. Milovidov is a law professor and children's rights advocate. She practiced as an international lawyer, liitigator and General Counsel in California for four years before moving to France, where she earned a Ph.D. in International Relations and Diplomacy from the American Graduate School in Paris. She is now a faculty member at AGS and at AGS's partner institution Université de Cergy-Pontoise.

• Listen to Africa Conversations podcast "Women, Work and Power"

• See Elizabeth Milovidov's profile on the AGS website

• Visit Elizabeth Milovidov's website crossingguardconsulting.com dedicated to the protection of children's rights.