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FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura reacts to the audience during the 2019 IWF Cornerstone Conference in Barcelona.

As the FIFA Women’s World Cup kicks off this month, the latest edition of In the Lead features a conversation with one of sports’ most powerful people: FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura. While in Barcelona to speak at our 2019 Cornerstone Conference, Samoura talked to us about why she decided to take the role at FIFA, what she's changing to make football a powerful force for good, and how a new slogan – #DareToShine – will help take the women’s game to a new level.

In the fall of 2018, the IWF World Leadership Conference in Miami drew nearly 1,000 women leaders from over 30 nations to discuss topics ranging from the future of the global economy, women in politics, rising seas, and an increasingly deadly crisis: the opioid epidemic.

During the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s National Prevention Week (May 12-18), we want to draw from the content and conversations we had in Miami to bring attention to the opioid epidemic today, and what we can do to increase public awareness of, and action around mental and substance use disorders.

Christine Heenan with her children

In honor of Mother’s Day, the latest edition of In the Lead highlights the power of mothers and the importance of access to maternal care. We spoke with Christine Heenan, Women's Forum of New York member and Vice President of Global Policy and Advocacy for The Rockefeller Foundation, about a new Rockefeller campaign that centers on the crisis of maternal mortality, entitled #WithoutMom.