When women believe in themselves, extraordinary things happen: USAID administrator
“Many times in my career, I have had doubts about whether or not I could succeed. The important thing is to just try to push those doubts away. “When women show what they have inside of them, incredible things happen,” USAID Administrator Samantha Power said during a meeting held on Wednesday with VECA – a women-led startup which created the first waste collection app to connect household sellers with waste collectors. A global leader herself, Power admitted that she often feels vulnerable, but has learned that “it is important to learn how to get up after you fall.” USAID Administrator Samantha Power (right) swaps shirts with Vietnam’s women’s national football team member Tran Thi Thuy Trang in Ho Chi Minh City, March 7, 2023. Photo : Tran Tien Dung / Tuoi Tre “I think that when (people look at me) – a person who has had decades of a career [sic], it is easy to say, ‘it was always inevitable that Samantha would lead USAID’ or ‘she had the chance under Barack Obama ...