LARA STEIN
Lara is the Co-Founder and CEO of Boma Global. Prior to founding Boma, Lara was the Executive Director of Women’s March Global, where she built the Women's March Global platform and oversaw all Women's March initiatives outside of the US. Previously Lara was MD Global Development at Singularity University, responsible for Singularity University's global expansion and implementation of vision and strategy. Prior to her time at SU, Lara was the founder and director of the TEDx program at the TED Conferences, creating and leading the effort to bring TED to the world by developing a program that granted free licenses to third parties to organize independent TED-like events. In the first five years of TEDx, Lara grew the program into a global phenomenon with more than 40,000 talks given at more than 8,000 TEDx events in 1,200 cities in 133 countries. By December 2013, eight TEDx events, on average, were being organized every day in one of 133 countries. Under Lara's leadership, TED expanded to include TEDxWomen, TED-like events dedicated to women empowerment, and the inclusion of youth audiences with the creation of the TEDYouth and TEDxYouth. Lara also created the TEDx corporate event platform, TEDx in a Box. While leading TEDx Lara simultaneously held the position of Director of the TED Prize. Lara also currently sits on the board of Equality Now, dedicated to creating a more just world for women and girls and Lalela, a non-profit dedicated to education through the arts in South Africa.