Sehreen NoorAli was riding a donkey in the middle of a desert in Jordan. Next to her was one of President Barack Obama’s speech writers, specifically one who had co-authored his historic speech in Cairo in 2009.
He checked his BlackBerry, as one does in the middle of a desert while riding a donkey, and said, “Oh my God, President Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize for the speech that I co-wrote.”
For NoorAli, who was working at the State Department, it was a moment to step back and think that her job was pretty cool.
That proximity to colleagues communicating big things, to people, to understanding how to help them into their own capacities — that’s been an important and recurring theme over the course of her career.
These days, NoorAli is the founder of EdTech Women and the vice president of business development at education search tool Noodle.
More at the Source: Sehreen NoorAli: Advocate for women in edtech. New mom. Traveler. – TechRepublic
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