Plenary panel at the 2015 Global Women’s Network. Photo credit: ExxonMobil Foundation.
Earlier this week, Iliana Martinez, the general manager of Cooperativa Esquipulas, a smallholder coffee farmer cooperative and Root Capital client in the highlands of Guatemala, and Root Capital’s SVP Catherine Gill joined First Ladies, private and public sector leaders, and the next generation of innovators in Dallas at the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s two-day Global Women’s Network summit.
Iliana and Catherine took the stage to discuss how Root Capital has successfully collaborated with leading private and public sector players to provide economic opportunities for women in agriculture around the world.
Check out Iliana and Catherine’s remarks from the plenary panel, The Power of Public Private Partnerships: Collaborating to Improve the Lives of Women and Girls, below: