>> our guest on "this is america" is alyse nelson, president and ceo of vital voices global partnership. she is also author of the new book, "vital voices: the power of women leading change around the world." thank you so much for joining us, sitting down and talking a little bit about "vital voices." if somebody is just running and bumping up against this phrase and this term and organization for the first time, what would you say? >> if i had two seconds i would say investing in women to improve the world. >> investing in women to improve the world. how does that show up on a day- to-day basis? >> we searched the world for what we believe is the most extraordinary untapped potential, women leaders. they could be women safeguarding human rights, building a stronger political systems, women who are pulling people out of poverty through finance and entrepreneurship, and we invest in that. they are leading networks of other so we know by investing them they will pull up the entire network. >> when you say invest, how do you invest? >> not through money necessarily. more through social and

now its president and ceo alyse nelson has offered accounts from the women in ireland that broke downthe women struggling in the middle east and around the world. joining me a friend of our program a member of vital voices who ran for the presidency in cameroon still leads her country's people's party and alyse nelson, president of vital voices and author of the new book. the book contains so many wonderful stories. we here in washington who participate and watched vital voices over the years and i've been one of the people watching this for a long time now -- >> thank you for your support. >> it's striking how people really have joined the example. what are you trying to do in the book? what models are you trying to show? >> the book really shares a journey over 15 years and really the lessons that we've learned from steroextraordinary leaders socioeconomic backgrounds, but some commonalities, some threads in the way that women lead. i think what we've seen is that women lead differently and that difference is precisely what our world needs today. you look around the world and you se