Sheryl WuDunn opened her address to an intimate crowd at Rice Eccles Tower on Monday saying, “While there is challenge, there is also opportunity.” The event was part of the Tanner Humanities Center’s Human Rights, Women’s Rights and Women’s Leadership series. WuDunn, a human rights activist, investigative journalist for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize recipient, best-selling author and business executive, covered topics from sex trafficking to women’s education and declared women’s rights one of the most salient issues of our generation.
WuDunn demonstrated her point through stories. She began with Dai Manju, a thirteen-year-old girl in China who could not afford the $13 cost of an education.