Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership evening at the State Department
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 Anna Grishchenkova, Hussan Bano-Burki, Ilham Zhiri, Hassina Syed, Aicholpon Jorupbekora, Jamilya Imankulova, all program participants
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Dozens of powerful women joined females from developing countries as part of the Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership, a program launched by Fortune and the U.S. State Department in 2006, Wednesday evening at the State Department.
The attendee list was impressive, drawing out U.S. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Dianne Fenstein (D-Calif.), Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.), Brunswick Group Managing Partner Hilary Rosen, NBC's Norah O'Donnell, TIME Executive Editor Nancy Gibbs and others.
117 women from 43 developing countries have gone through the program since 2006. — Report and photographs by Kate Ozcypok

Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine)
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Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.) and Kathy Elsesser
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Hilary Rosen, managing partner of the D.C. office of The Brunswick Group, Nancy Gibbs, Time executive editor, Donna Orender
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Jody Westby and Margaret Mattix
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Blythe McGarvie, Bonnie Gwin and Victoria Reese
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Candy Duncan and Julia Eakes
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Former Ambassador to Portugal Elizabeth Bagley and Ambassador Chee Chan of Singapore
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Taylor Marsh and Candace Kindle
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Liz Robbins, Anne Black, Lisa Shalet and Zainab Salbi
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Jin Yan and Kathy Murphy
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Ilene Muething, Sonia Medina, China Miner Gormar and Debra Cohen
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Esther Sternberg and Cheryl Moore
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Donna Milrod and Bobbie Greene McCarthy
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NBC's Norah O'Donnell, Beth Dororetz and Gloria Borger
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Ellen McCance and Deirdre Stanley, Executive Vice President & General Counsel for Thomson Reuters
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Sally Courtney and Martha McGany
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Marcia Greenberger and Phyllis Korff
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Grace Nanyonga, program participant, Chris Miner, managing director at the Department of State and Ann Valerie T. Milford, program participant
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Lorena Diaz Quijano, program participant and Daniella Martin
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Shelley Diamond and Donna Leinwand
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Noa Meyer, Erin Walsh and Melanne Verveer
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