About the Author

Celeste Mergens is the founder of Days for Girls International, a global award-winning nonprofit providing menstrual wellness resources and health education to nearly 3 million women and girls in 145 countries. HuffPost named Days for Girls as a “Next Ten” organization poised to change the world in the next decade. Celeste has been recognized as one of Conscious Company Global Impact Entrepreneur’s Top Ten Women, a Global Washington Global Hero, Washington State’s America Mother of the Year, an AARP Purpose Prize winner, and Women’s Economic Forum’s Woman of the Decade. She has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine; Forbes; and Stanford Social Innovation Review. Celeste and her best friend of 40 years, her husband Don, live in the Pacific Northwest.