please welcome to the women transform the world conference, secretary of state elizabeth mccord.plause continues) that's you, madam secretary. go. (audience cheering) i meet a lot of survivors in my work, people who have seen some of the worst this world has to offer, the qualy they all s even in the bleakest dawn. amina salah has seen many bleak new dawns in her country, through a violent revolution, paon and a brutal civil war. she had an opportunity to escape before the taliban came to power, but she stayed, earning a bachelor's and then a law degree from kabul university. ♪ and as she watched a generation of girls denied access to a basic education, amina dedicated her life to giving them the same opportunity she had. in her tenure as afghanistan's minister of education, she's worked tirelessly to give faith to a new generation of girls that a new day is coming, one that may feel bleak and cold now, but will one day be warm and broad and include everyone under the sun. i'm reminded of a quote from one of our own keepers of the faith, susan b. anthony. "we shall someday be hee