Willa Shalit

Willa Shalit is the daughter of Gene Shalit and produced
The Vagina Monologues, which became a global
phenomenon. She is also the co-founder and first Executive
Director of V-Day, the worldwide movement to end violence
against women that grew out of the play. It was named one of
Fortune’s 100 Best American Charities of 2002. She is
also an internationally recognized sculptor and is the
founder of The Touch Foundation, creating the Please Touch!
Exhibition, which allowed the sight-impaired for the first
time to "see" people of all races as well as famous people
whose faces they had only imagined. She is the subject of
the Emmy-winning PBS documentary Willa: Behind the
Mask, and author of the book Lifecast: Behind the
Mask. Willa is the founder of the Rwanda Path to Peace
project which is bringing economic prosperity to the women
of Rwanda through global crafts exports. She lives in New York.