Rewrite the Equation: Black Women as Architects of the Global Economy
The world economy has a math problem.
We are solving it.
A United Nations policy session convened by Boss Women Institute
Geneva, April 14, 2026
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 | 12:45 – 13:45 (CET)
Room III, Building A Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Fifth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD 5)
Black women generate trillions. They receive less than 2 percent of global institutional capital. That is not a gap. That is a design flaw.
On April 14, 2026, Boss Women Institute convenes a landmark policy session at the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, 5th Session — Palais des Nations, Geneva. Co-convened with La Passerelle I.D.É., this session brings together leaders from across the African diaspora to produce concrete institutional change.
This session introduces the Sovereignty Framework™ — a four-pillar model for structural economic redesign linking governance literacy, capital system reform, Black women as economic architects, and diaspora institutional integration.
Five institutional policy recommendations will be produced in the room, documented in English and French, and submitted to the PFPAD Secretariat by April 17, 2026. The session closes with the Geneva Economic Sovereignty Declaration — a formal record of structural demands attributed to PFPAD 5 and carried forward into global advocacy.
Grounded in Sustainable Development Goals 5, 8, and 10 and anchored to the Second International Decade for People of African Descent (2025–2034).
LANGUAGES
English and French (bilingual delivery)
Convened by
Co-convened with
Media:
The Architects
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Nadine Spencer
Founder & CEO,
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Léonie Tchatat
Founder, La Passerelle I.DÉ. (Canada/Paris)
Palais des Nations, Geneva
The Palais des Nations has hosted the world's most consequential policy conversations for over a century. On April 14, 2026, leaders from across the African diaspora take the floor.
THE WORK BEHIND THE FRAMEWORK
Most institutions arrive at policy through research. Boss Women Institute arrived through evidence.
For 15 years, the Boss Women Entrepreneurship Program operated at the intersection of Black women's economic ambition and the structural barriers designed to limit it. What that work produced was not a report. It was a methodology — tested in real time, with real women, against real systems.
The Sovereignty Framework™ is the institutional articulation of that evidence. It exists because the need is not theoretical. It has been documented, lived, and verified across thousands of individual economic trajectories.
The Institute is the proof of concept.
Boss Women Institute documents solutions — from inside the work, owned by the community, used to change the structure.
That is what arrives in Geneva on April 14.
Become a Partner in Change
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