This is the sentiment conveyed by World Pulse founder Jensine Larsen during a recent speaking tour that made a stop in Denver. World Pulse is a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. As a young journalist in Burma and the Amazon, Jensine discovered that some of the world’s most important stories are rarely mentioned in the mass media and she set out to change this.

In the effort to bring new stories out of the shadows, World Pulse organized a speaking tour that featured three incredible women from different parts of the globe: Sunita from Nepal, Jacqueline from Bolivia and Malayapinas from the Philippines. Malayapinas is not her real name. This courageous woman lives with the reality that her activism is very dangerous. Her first husband, a union organizer, was murdered for his activism. When asked about security issues, Jensine Larsen’s response was that the brave women who are participating in the World Pulse community in dangerous parts of the world have decided that it is “safer to take the risk…it is safer to speak out than to be silent.”

These three women have only recently started speaking in public, but I have never heard more powerful speakers. They all live in countries where women have to struggle to be heard, but World Pulse has given them the courage and the space to express their vision of the future. Her excitement was palpable as Jacqui from Bolivia said “my mind is like Niagra Falls” — overflowing with ideas on how life could be better for the indigenous women in her country.

World Pulse issues a print magazine and it hosts an online community – PulseWire. PulseWire connects women from nearly 200 different countries with each other. Women who are investing in themselves and their communities. Women who are taking risks because they know that life is short and they don’t want to sit back and wait for it to get better.

This is the sentiment conveyed by World Pulse founder Jensine Larsen during a recent speaking tour that made a stop in Denver. World Pulse is a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. As a young journalist in Burma and the Amazon, Jensine discovered that some of the world’s most important stories are rarely mentioned in the mass media and she set out to change this.

In the effort to bring new stories out of the shadows, World Pulse organized a speaking tour that featured three incredible women from different parts of the globe: Sunita from Nepal, Jacqueline from Bolivia and Malayapinas from the Philippines. Malayapinas is not her real name. This courageous woman lives with the reality that her activism is very dangerous. Her first husband, a union organizer, was murdered for his activism. When asked about security issues, Jensine Larsen’s response was that the brave women who are participating in the World Pulse community in dangerous parts of the world have decided that it is “safer to take the risk…it is safer to speak out than to be silent.”

These three women have only recently started speaking in public, but I have never heard more powerful speakers. They all live in countries where women have to struggle to be heard, but World Pulse has given them the courage and the space to express their vision of the future. Her excitement was palpable as Jacqui from Bolivia said “my mind is like Niagra Falls” — overflowing with ideas on how life could be better for the indigenous women in her country.

World Pulse issues a print magazine and it hosts an online community – PulseWire. PulseWire connects women from nearly 200 different countries with each other. Women who are investing in themselves and their communities. Women who are taking risks because they know that life is short and they don’t want to sit back and wait for it to get better.