Our Team
Uraidah Hassani
Founder and Executive Director
Uraidah provides consistent leadership, management, oversight and support to her Team.
With an International Relations degree from New York University and over four years experience mentoring teenage girls in Brooklyn and Chicago, Uraidah is passionate about improving the quality of life of women and girls in urban communities and in developing countries. Uraidah has research, business, leadership, foreign language, event planning and project management experience, which she gained through her international travels and work experiences, such as her internship with The Charlie Rose Show in 2010. She is currently a member of the US National Committee for UN Women and is the United Nations Representative for Susila Dharma International Association (SDIA), where she represents the interests and potentials of a network of over 47 development projects, including YUM, a project in Indonesia that was recently accepted into the Clinton Global Initiative.
Contact: Click here
________________________________________________________________________________
Bianca Martinez
Head of Public Outreach
Bianca designs and implements our public outreach strategy to broaden public awareness of TWWI in the local and global community.
Bianca is a Brooklyn-based college advisor through New York University and New York College Advising Corps, and is trained to prepare and encourage high school students from underprivileged communities to attend ivy league colleges such as her alma mater, NYU. Bianca has volunteered with the Lower Eastside Girls Club and mentored for several years with SCO Family of Services. She has a strong commitment to girls and making a difference in this world.
“Being a tutor, mentor, older sibling, humanitarian and survivor of abuse, I strongly feel the need to provide a space for dialog and action where women and children need not suffer alone. The Women Worldwide Initiative provides that space online and offline.”
Contact: Click here
________________________________________________________________________________
Kimberly Andino
Director of Social Change Projects
Kimberly analyzes the feasibility, mission-related objectives and on-the-ground need of proposed social change projects.
Kimberly majored in Accounting at Baruch College. However, her passion and most exciting successes have been associated with the work she has done as a volunteer Program Developer of educational and healthcare services for orphaned and abandoned children in impoverished communities around the world. Since 2007, her volunteer work has landed her in Sri Lanka with tsunami orphans, the Dominican Republic with children from marginalized neighborhoods, Haiti immediately after the earthquake in 2010, and Tanzania with an AIDS orphans program. Kimberly is well-traveled and multicultural as well as fluent in English, Spanish and French.
Contact: Click here
