Lebanese girls have been working for many years to maintain the identify of Lebanon excessive overseas. Lots of them, like Dr. Saniya Habboub, have made headlines world wide for his or her bravery and ingenuity.
Lebanese Elissa Freiha isn’t any totally different. Named after Elissar, a Phoenician queen, she was impressed to seek out her kingdom, Womena, one of many Center East’s largest platforms for Ladies’s Empowerment.
Womena is a media creating content material round girls change-makers. The platform additionally has a program for women-led companies, Womentum, and a web-based group, Bossladies.
Born in Paris and primarily based in Dubai, the Lebanese-American activist and feminist makes use of her multi-culture to advertise respect for all individuals.
When she was graduating from college in Paris, she spent her final semester finding out oil portray and philosophy, in addition to working as a barista and baker throughout her free time.
On the age of 23, she took a daring step and determined to maneuver to Dubai to start out an funding platform with no expertise or data of finance.
Freiha succeeded regardless of the doubt and based Womena in 2013 along with her finest buddy. Barely 3 years later after its launch, the platform received a number of awards for its work.
Nonetheless, the enterprise mannequin and the friendship failed, and Freiha needed to work onerous once more for her what she deemed as her private mission., She therefore succeeded in making a extra complicated enterprise mannequin for her platform.
Telling the tales of feminine changemakers, Womena has been addressing gender inequality by creating compelling women-focused content material and making an impression by documentaries, articles, podcasts, and extra.
Along with her positivism to alter the notion of girls and advocating for his or her respect, many describe Freiha as an entrepreneur or an angel investor (35+ Portfolio Firms) as she had received awards for each titles.
Elissa Freiha can also be a poet, a mentor, an govt producer at Womentum, a TV and Occasions host, and an influencer. Her exceptional endeavors have earned a place on Forbes’ MENA “30 Beneath 30” record in 2018 and on The Center East’s Energy Businesswomen in 2021.
