Pat Mitchell Presents Becoming a Dangerous Woman, in Conversation with Catalina Escobar

Catalina Escobar is a globally recognized social entrepreneur. She began her career in the banking and private fields, and in 2001 she created what would become her passion: The Juanfe Foundation (Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar Foundation). She was awarded the National Merit Order Award by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in 2011; joined the Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women´s Mentoring Partnership and became a CNN Hero in 2012. She has a degree in Business Administration from Clark University; studies in economics in Europe and at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan.; and an M.B.A. at the INALDE Business School in Bogota.

Pat Mitchell was the first woman president of PBS, CNN Productions, and The Paley Center for Media, as well as an award-winning producer of documentaries and TV series. She is the cofounder and curator of TEDWomen and the Connected Women Leaders Initiative; chair of Sundance Institute and Co-Chair of The Women's Media Center; trustee of the Skoll Foundation; and advisor to Participant Media. Stacey Abrams writes of Mitchell’s new book, Becoming a Dangerous Woman: Embracing Risk to Change the World (Seal Press), “By curating and amplifying the voices of women who have defied categorization, Pat Mitchell delivers a work that will encourage other women to find their dangerous sides." In Becoming a Dangerous Woman, she shares her own path to power, from a childhood spent on a cotton farm in the South to her unprecedented rise in media and global affairs. Alongside revelatory interviews with other dangerous women, Mitchell takes us on a lively journey, sharing with readers intimate anecdotes about navigating the power paradigms of Washington DC and Hollywood, traveling to war zones with Eve Ensler and Glenn Close, pressing Fidel Castro into making a historic admission about the Cold War, and matching wits with Ted Turner and Robert Redford. “Dangerous times call for dangerous women,” Mitchell tells us, and in sharing her story, she encourages others to braver and bolder, to dismantle the barriers to full equality they see in their own lives, and to embrace risk to create a more equitable world.