Georgette Bennett

Georgette Bennett is a TED speaker, an award-winning sociologist, widely published author, popular lecturer, and former broadcast journalist. In 2021, she was selected as one of Forbes’ 50 over 50 Women of Impact (“Bennett joins Condoleezza Rice, Dr. Najat Arafat Khelil, and Susan Rice as women who helped shape the course of modern American foreign policy and human rights”). Bennett served with the U.S. State Department Religion and Foreign Policy working group on conflict mitigation, tasked with developing recommendations for the U.S. Secretary of State on countering religion-based violence. She is Past Chair of the Jewish Funders Network and serves on the Board of Third Way. In addition, she is an Advisory Board member for the International Rescue Committee and the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Bennett was a winner of a 2020 AARP Purpose Prize for her work with MFA. She is involved with dozens of organizations, having served on many boards, and she has been honored by numerous organizations, all of which gives her powerful leverage for publicizing the book.