Women Healing the World

Lynne Twist is the founder of the Soul of Money Institute and author of the best-selling book, The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life. Over the past 40 years, Twist has worked with more than 100,000 people in 50 countries in the arenas of fundraising with integrity, conscious philanthropy, strategic visioning and having a healthy relationship with money. Her clients include Microsoft, Proctor & Gamble, the International Unity Church, Charles Schwab, United Way, The National Black Theater of Harlem, and Harvard University. A sought-after speaker, she has presented for the United Nations Beijing Women’s Conference, State of the World Forum, Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the Governor’s Conference on California Women, among others. A recognized global visionary, Twist has served as an advisor to the Desmond Tutu Foundation, and The Nobel Women’s Initiative. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious honors, including the “Woman of Distinction” award from the United Nations.

Sara Vetter is the Business Development Director at the Soul of Money Institute. In addition, she is a major gift fundraiser and leads trips to the rainforest for The Pachamama Alliance, a non-profit that works with the indigenous people of the Amazon and committed people worldwide to bring forth an environmentally responsible, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.  A budding philanthropist in her own right, she works closely with the Nobel Women Peace Prize Laureates in funding their work globally and recently traveled to Liberia and Ethiopia for a delegation in support of a worldwide campaign to end violence against women and girls as tools of war.  Sara lives in Menlo park with her teenage son, and has two adult children attending college.