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“In No Woman Left Behind, Kate Grant shares her journey of overcoming setbacks and red tape to help women access life-changing fistula surgeries, offering inspiration and insights for anyone determined to make a difference.” —SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON  “Grant’s book is a call to action for compassionate advocates, and a stunning tale of how deeds triumph over platitudes. No Woman Left Behind is a powerful plea to be our sister’s keeper and a guidebook to change the world, one woman at a time.” —DR. DENIS MUKWEGE, founder of Panzi Hospital and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize  “If you are passionate about maternal health and care about creating a world where women can thrive in motherhood like I do, this book is for you!” —CHRISTY TURLINGTON BURNS, founder and president of Every Mother Counts  “No Woman Left Behind is part bildungsroman, expedition diary, and call for action against a terrible affliction. . . . It’s a bracing tale in these uneasy times of redemption, for both the afflicted and those committed to their cure, about how to live a life  with meaning.” —BROOKE GLADSTONE, host of NPR’s On the Media  “No Woman Left Behind is a stirring story of how a talented social entrepreneur found her true purpose and defied the odds to build an organization that has changed women’s lives worldwide. This book will fill you with hope.”—DAVID CALLAHAN, founder and publisher of Inside Philanthropy “In No Woman Left Behind, Kate Grant shares her journey of overcoming setbacks and red tape to help women access life-changing fistula surgeries, offering inspiration and insights for anyone determined to make a difference.” —SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON  “Grant’s book is a call to action for compassionate advocates, and a stunning tale of how deeds triumph over platitudes. No Woman Left Behind is a powerful plea to be our sister’s keeper and a guidebook to change the world, one woman at a time.” —DR. DENIS MUKWEGE, founder of Panzi Hospital and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize  “If you are passionate about maternal health and care about creating a world where women can thrive in motherhood like I do, this book is for you!” —CHRISTY TURLINGTON BURNS, founder and president of Every Mother Counts  “No Woman Left Behind is part bildungsroman, expedition diary, and call for action against a terrible affliction. . . . It’s a bracing tale in these uneasy times of redemption, for both the afflicted and those committed to their cure, about how to live a life  with meaning.” —BROOKE GLADSTONE, host of NPR’s On the Media  “No Woman Left Behind is a stirring story of how a talented social entrepreneur found her true purpose and defied the odds to build an organization that has changed women’s lives worldwide. This book will fill you with hope.”—DAVID CALLAHAN, founder and publisher of Inside Philanthropy

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Kate Grant is the founding CEO of Fistula Foundation, the world’s largest charity devoted to treating childbirth injuries. She joined the Foundation in 2005, expanding the Foundation’s global footprint from one country to more than 30 in Africa and Asia.  Grant is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and earned an MPA from Princeton University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Abraham Verghese is Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, he is the author of My Own Country, a 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a Time Best Book of the Year; The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book; and, most recently, the critically acclaimed novel Cutting for Stone, which was a national bestseller. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his essays and short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Granta, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. In 2016 Verghese received a National Humanities Medal from President Obama. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

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