The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women

"It is not enough to be optimistic. Defiant, active, solution-oriented optimism undergirded by strategy and resources can fuel true change, one impact at a time," writes Kelli Walker.

by Kelli Walker
Published: September 8, 2023

Durreen Shahnaz
Broadleaf Books, 247 pages | Published June 27, 2023

Durreen Shahnaz had me at the title. From the moment I heard of The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women, I was intrigued and inspired. Optimism is surely a philosophic way of approaching life that we crave especially right now – but being defiantly optimistic about changing seemingly intractable, global systems...

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Kelli Walker

Kelli Walker, the senior writer with Opportunity International, a global nonprofit working to end extreme poverty. She has worked in the nonprofit sector for over two decades, inspired by mission-driven, client-centered organizations. She grew up in – and still attends – a small Presbyterian church in Morris, Illinois, where her love of music and the arts first blossomed.

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The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women

"It is not enough to be optimistic. Defiant, active, solution-oriented optimism undergirded by strategy and resources can fuel true change, one impact at a time," writes Kelli Walker.

Kelli Walker

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