DIANA YOUSEF, FOUNDER AND CEO, CHANGE:WATER LABS, RECEIVES THE 2025 GAIL ADINAMIS WEGG® AWARD FOR EXEMPLARY GLOBAL LEADERSHIP®

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DIANA YOUSEF, FOUNDER AND CEO, CHANGE:WATER LABS, RECEIVES THE 2025 GAIL ADINAMIS WEGG® AWARD FOR EXEMPLARY GLOBAL LEADERSHIP®

DIANA YOUSEF’S BRAVERY, PASSION, AND PERSISTENCE CONTRIBUTES GREATLY TO TRANSLATING SCIENCE INTO GLOBAL SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

Chicago – March 24, 2025:  Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global (wegg®) – a Chicago-based nonprofit organization with a mission to educate, inspire and nurture women business owners and entrepreneurs worldwide – announced today that Diana Yousef is the 2025 recipient of the Gail Adinamis wegg® Award for Exemplary Global Leadership®.

Diana Yousef, PhD, MBA, MA is a scientist and serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience commercializing technology for global social and environmental impact. She is founder and CEO of change:WATER Labs (www.change-water.com), a mission-driven cleantech venture leveraging NASA-inspired materials to increase safe, sustainable, and scalable access to clean water and sanitation.

In its fourth year, the award honors wegg stakeholders like Diana who have gone out of their way to connect, create, contribute, and collaborate with wegg, and forge helpful alliances. It is named after Gail Adinamis, founder of Global Care Clinical Trials, LLC, a leading global provider of ambulant health care services for clinical trials. Gail’s company was acquired by LabCorp in July 2020 to further expand its decentralized clinical trials capabilities globally.

Past awardees are Julie Smolyansky of Lifeway Foods, Michelle Hayward of Bluedog Design, and Debra Dudley of Oscarware.

“Diana is always connecting the dots between technologies and applications from across borders,” said wegg President Laurel Delaney. “The Gail Adinamis wegg® Award for Exemplary Global Leadership® honors Diana, who has developed the “iThrone,” an innovative waterless toilet that can basically vaporize human excrement. Whether trying to improve the world, focusing on sustainability and climate change, or girls’ empowerment, she’s all in.”

“About to head off to Portugal, I was shocked when I heard I was the recipient of this year’s Gail Adinamis wegg® Award for Exemplary Global Leadership®,” Diana Yousef said. “I’ve had such wonderful experiences with wegg – from being on their How She Went Global® podcast and wegg® Showcase to now this. It is an incredible honor. The sky is the limit with wegg and they apparently think the same of my potential.”

The award ceremony took place virtually on March 24. Learn more about the Gail Adinamis wegg® Award for Exemplary Global Leadership® at https://womenentrepreneursgrowglobal.org/about/the-gail-adinamis-wegg-award/.

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About Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global (wegg®)

Our mission is to educate, inspire and nurture women business owners and entrepreneurs worldwide on how to go global so they can run healthier businesses and create a new future for themselves, their families and their community. Our vision is a world where every woman business owner has the opportunity and ability to take their business global wherever they may be located. For more information, please visit https://womenentrepreneursgrowglobal.org/

About the Gail Adinamis wegg® Award for Exemplary Global Leadership®

The Gail Adinamis wegg Award for Exemplary Global Leadership honors and celebrates Gail Adinamis, who has been crucial to the growth and success of Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global. The annual award honors a wegg stakeholder who has gone out of her way to connect, create, contribute, and collaborate with wegg, and forge alliances that have proven helpful. These are traits that define an exemplary global leader. Honoring female owned or led organizations of all types and sizes and the women behind them, the award recognizes those who contribute to the improvement and growth of others worldwide.