STEM education initiatives. The Tempest While originally focused on personal essays and editorials exploring gender and ethnic equality, the media platform gained new attention when it began incorporating perspectives of more than 1200 thought-leaders from more than 90 countries, including subjects such as the cultural stigma of abortion in South Africa and university protests against Richard Spencer. The Tempest launched internationally at South by Southwest in March 2016. By November 2019, there were more than 8 million unique visitors each month, according to comScore. In 2016, Alawa managed a collaboration with Voxe, a French NGO that created a system for comparing the platforms of political candidates to help voters. References Living people American businesspeople Wellesley College alumni American people of Syrian descent 1991 births 21st-century American women