Jolie has emerged in recent years as one of Hollywood’s foremost humanitarians and a friend of Women in the World. She’s appeared on our stage numerous times over the years, most recently putting the finishing touches on the 2015 Women in the World New York Summit with an impassioned appeal to leaders the world over on behalf of women and girls. At the 2013 WITW New York Summit, Jolie paid tribute to Malala Yousafzai and made a $200,000 donation to her charity. She’s also been a courageous example for women everywhere by openly discussing preemptive measures she’s taken to prevent ovarian cancer. “My children will never have to say: mom died of ovarian cancer,” Jolie wrote in a moving 2015 New York Times Op-Ed. In that piece she also revealed that she’d undergone a preemptive double-mastectomy and had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed.