Dear Friends,

One of the best parts of my work with WINGS WorldQuest is when I get to notify a new Fellow or Flag Carrier of her award. This month I got to award a WINGS flag to a new member of our international community: Janey McGill. She wrote about accepting the award here on her blog.

Janey will walk 1,000 km of Oman's Rub' Al Khali, a desert spanning four countries across the Arabian Peninsula, to explore cultural differences between our lives and relationships within a tribal country which until only 48 years ago had only several schools and no infrastructure. We can’t wait to share with you what she discovers along the journey.

We are also pleased to share the video recording of the Fellows Forum. That link, as well as lots of other news from WINGS Fellows and Flag Carriers, are in this month's newsletter. Enjoy!

We'll see you on the trail, at the destination, and beyond.

All the best,

Yael Jekogian
Managing Director

Photo courtesy Kate Harris.

What WINGS' Women of Discovery Are Up To

In the spring of 2007, WINGS Fellow Kate Harris and Melissa Yule bicycled across western China and the Silk Road. Kate has turned that expedition, for which she carried the WINGS WorldQuest flag, into a memoir, Lands of Lost Borders. She recounts her experience in China as well as her return in 2011 when she rode from Turkey to the Himalayas. Read more about the book.
WINGS Fellows Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have spent 40 years photographing indigenous tribes in Africa. Their work is on display at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif. in an exhibit called African Twilight: Vanishing Rituals & Ceremonies and will be released as a two-volume book this fall. Read more here.
5 Gyres, an organization founded by WINGS Fellow Anna Cummins, is currently on an expedition through Indonesia's Coral Triangle between Bali and Komodo. The crew will be sampling microplastics and aims to explore solutions to the issue of plastic pollution. Learn more about this and future 5 Gyres expeditions here.
Here are the world's best trips for dinosaur lovers, according to WINGS Fellow Bolortsetseg Minjin.
Flag Carrier Susan R. Eaton was named by the Ocean Geographic Society as one of the 18 most influential women in conservation who has inspired and influenced thousands to take greater care of the ocean. Susan and the rest of the Sedna Epic Team are preparing to embark on a dive and snorkel expedition to Nunavut and Greenland in August.

Have You Gotten Your WINGS Schwag?

Donate to WINGS before July 31, and you'll get WINGS merch as a special thank you. Wear your WINGS on your expeditions this summer, and know that you are supporting world knowledge, environmental conservation, and a better future.

Give a gift to WINGS.

Janey McGill Takes the WINGS flag to Oman

Oman: Her Faces of Change

Along with a team of Anglo-Omani women, Janey McGill will carry the WINGS flag across 1,000 km of Oman’s Rub’ Al Khali, a desert in the Arabian Peninsula that spans four countries. As much as it is a physical journey, the trek also offers an opportunity for the women to address their cultural differences with the goal of challenging stereotypes. She aims to encourage understanding, acceptance and respect for cultural and gender differences and identities.

“WINGS offers a platform for us to be heard; women who have dreams and aspirations for a great understanding of the world and the education of the people that occupy it,” Janey said. “To carry the WINGS flag would go a long way in helping me to communicate my message to a wider and engaged audience.”

Re-live the 2018 Fellows Forum

Did you miss the 2018 Fellows Forum? Now you can watch all of the talks online and hear some of the incredible women in the WINGS community present their research, initiatives and discoveries.

Hear from our five Women of Discovery Awardees – Nergis Mavalvala, Thandiwe Mweetwa, Nalini Nadkarni, Eleanor Sterling, and Asha de Vos – as well as Laly Lichtenfeld, who recently carried the WINGS flag in Tanzania.

Watch the videos >>

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