United States
Senior global executive with a distinguished international career shaping reputation, strategic communications, and values-driven narratives across private and public sectors, from Fortune 100 corporations to international foundations to the highest levels of government and diplomacy.
Girl Effect Relationships group includes: Communications and Marketing, Investor Relations and Scale Partnerships. For over a decade, the NIKE Foundation, inspired by NIKE's belief in human potential, has invested in girls. In 2008 the NIKE Foundation, in collaboration with NoVo Foundation, United Nations Foundation and other partners, launched the Girl Effect movement. With the support of over 150 partners in 90 countries, NIKE Foundation and the Girl Effect movement have positively impacted the lives of millions of girls and influenced investment in them. Girl Effect is now an independent organisation, with continued support from the NIKE Foundation and multiple partners. The organisation drives forward the ambition to give girls access to the critical assets they need to achieve their full potential. Our mission? Change the world for girls and enable girls in their unique capacity to change the world. This approach creates a virtuous cycle of change, lifting girls, their families and communities out of poverty.
Joining NIKE Foundation in 2013, Virginia led the vision of the Girl Declaration, an alliance of individuals and NGOs that successfully campaigned to embed girls in the 2015 development goals. She managed the Global Partnerships team and was responsible for Nike Foundation's advocacy, stakeholder relations and partner management of key NGOs, multi-laterals, and governments -- all working with NIKE Foundation to do things differently, and do different things, for girls. The NIKE Foundation's investment in adolescent girls is based on smart economics and the belief that girls are uniquely positioned to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.
Virginia founded a consulting business specialized in launching and incubating philanthropic initiatives, providing strategic planning and thought leadership to individual philanthropists, foundations, and corporates as they create and grow agendas focused on social change.
Virginia developed special projects for the office of the CEO and Chairman in support of the company’s corporate relations; and also managed government relation projects for Europe.