Kavita Ramdas is the Director of the Open Society Foundations’ Women’s Rights Program and Founder of KNR Sisters, a consulting practice in Gender Justice Philanthropy. She has led an impactful career as a leading global advocate for women’s rights and a respected thought leader in the fields of social change philanthropy, intersectional equity, and social entrepreneurship. Ramdas was previously the CEO and President of the Global Fund for Women and served as a strategy advisor to MADRE, an international nonprofit partnering with grassroots women’s organizations and uniting activists to end human rights abuses. She is a member of the Henry Crown Fellows Program of the Aspen Institute and previously served on the boards of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Women’s Funding Network, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, among other involvements. On this week’s feature of GroundBreakers’ Portrait of a GroundBreaker Series, our discussion with Kavita ranged from the importance of Indigenous women’s knowledge to the need to question the distance of the mainstream social entrepreneurship space from activist movements.