Gretchen Ki Steidle is the founder and President of Global Grassroots, an international NGO working at the intersection of mindfulness and social entrepreneurship to catalyze the ideas of grassroots women in post-conflict East Africa. She most recently published the book, "Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change & Mindfulness for Social Innovation." Gretchen is a producer of the thrice-Emmy nominated documentary film, The Devil Came on Horseback and co-author of the memoir of the same title. She holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. She is a certified breathwork practitioner, which she uses for trauma-healing globally. In 2007, Gretchen was honored by World Business Magazine and Shell as one of the top International 35 Women Under 35. In 2010 she was chosen as a CNN Hero working in Haiti after the earthquake. In 2011 she was chosen one of seven Remarkable Women of the World by New Hampshire Magazine.