INTERVIEW: A Global Sisterhood: Reimagining Power Through Feminist Foreign Policy

How the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative is transforming the foundations of global policy and giving women everywhere new reason to hope.

By Bonnie Marcus, Executive Coach, Podcast Host and Author of the Own Your Ambition Substack

Photo Credit: Corentin Boulet / Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative. Image Description: Lyric Thompson, CEO and Founder of the Collaborative, and Marita Perceval, Senior Fellow with the Collaborative and President of Feminists Without Borders

Santa Barbara, California || “Despite the setbacks, Lyric and Spogmay’s work [at the Collaborative] reminds us that feminist foreign policy is no longer theoretical. It’s a growing movement grounded in community, courage, and connection…In a world still shaped by patriarchal norms, their work offers a new model of leadership — one rooted in collaboration, empathy, and inclusion,” writes author and podcast host Bonnie Marcus in the latest edition of her Substack Own Your Ambition. Following the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policy in Paris, our Founder and CEO Lyric Thompson and Senior Policy Advisor Spogmay Ahmed sat down with Bonnie to reflect on the trajectory of the Collaborative, our theory of change at a time of global backlash and what we are reaching for to continue the fight.

Head to Bonnie’s Substack Own Your Ambition to read the interview.

Photo Credit: Corentin Boulet / Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative. Image Description: Spogmay Ahmed, Senior Policy Advisor of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative