ABOUT BLESSING

Blessing Omakwu is a strategist, producer, and writer shaping culture through ideas, storytelling, and systems change. She is the founder of The She Tank, a global feminist culture lab shaping women’s power and gender futures. Her work draws on over a decade of experience across global institutions, including the United Nations, the ONE Campaign, and most recently the Gates Foundation, where she served as Deputy Director of Global Content and Campaigns.

Blessing has helped influence global narratives on gender, including championing the shift from “women’s empowerment” to “women’s power”—a framing adopted by Melinda French Gates and central to the viral #HerMoneyHerPower campaign. She also co-chaired Room 5, a gender equality initiative led by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Brookings Institution.

A passionate leader at the intersection of faith and feminism, Blessing has galvanized philanthropic support for faith-rooted efforts advancing women’s power. She designed the faith strategy for the Gates Foundation’s Gender Equality Special Initiative, which led to a multi-million-dollar portfolio and the Women in Faith Leadership Fellowship—now housed at Georgetown University with co-funding from the Hilton Foundation. She is the host of Our Bibles, Ourselves, a podcast exploring what it means to be a Christian feminist, and the creator of a Gender Equality Theology framework and course developed through The She Tank.

As a producer, Blessing specializes in multimedia storytelling and live experiences that fuse social impact with artistic expression. She executive produced the flagship Goalkeepers event at Lincoln Center—an annual gathering of world leaders, artists, and activists working to accelerate global progress. Under her leadership, Goalkeepers featured performances by artists like Cynthia Erivo, Jon Batiste, and Tiwa Savage, and live conversations with public figures including Bill Gates, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Prime Minister Mia Mottley. From 2023 to 2025, she served on the inaugural Board of Directors for the Perelman Performing Arts Center, chaired by Michael Bloomberg.

As a writer, Blessing explores womanhood through cultural, personal, and spiritual lenses. Her essay “Keeping the Faith…and the Feminism” was featured in A Point of Beauty, the 2024 New York Times bestselling anthology by The Moth. Her newsletter, The Pivot Diaries, chronicles the sacred art of reinvention. She was selected for a Bellagio Residency to begin work on her debut book.

A member of the New York Bar, Blessing earned her Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School, where she received the National Association of Women Lawyers Outstanding Law Graduate Award.

She currently splits her time between New York City, Johannesburg, and Abuja—and is a proud TV show junkie.