Meghan and Harry Thrill Global Citizens to Action in Central Park As TIME 100 Icons

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Global Citizens Held Hands September 24th in Central Park

AOC’s dot-connecting came full circle on Saturday with the truly epic Global Citizen concert that ran for 24 hrs. moving around the globe. The New York City Central Park action went live post-Paris at about 5pm. An hour or two in to the concert, it was clear that someone was in the house. Cries of glee, clapping — some rock star had arrived.

Well, they are rock stars — Meghan and Harry — and it was our chance to claim them as our own. The crowd was in love with the couple — as is AOC. Are they perfect? No, for heavens sake. And who is? We are so happy to have these global activists making their home now in America. We need them here, as America tries to get our act together once again.

“My wife and I believe that where you’re born should not dictate your ability to survive,” Prince Harry said. “So Global Citizens, we ask you tonight: Do you think we should start treating access to the vaccine as a basic human right?

“When we start making decisions through that lens, where every single person deserves equal access to the vaccine, then we can achieve what is needed together for all of us,” he added. 

And then who did Harry and Meghan introduce next at the Global Citizen ? UN ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who they met for the first time earlier in their New York City visit.

Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are headliners in this year’s TIME 100. Their own narrative was written by Spanish chef José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, a non-profit devoted to providing meals in the wake of natural disasters.

The trio combined their activist energies in December 2020, when José Andrés and his non-profit, World Central Kitchen, became the first major charitable contribution of Harry and Meghan’s Archwell charity.

Harry and Meghan | Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweaka | UN Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield

AOC wrote about Harry and Meghan’s activist work on COVID vaccinations worldwide in our introduction of TIME 100: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization. Prince Harry and Meghan asked the question: what will it take to vaccinate the world? “Unity, cooperation and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,” is their answer.

Writing about the Trump administration’s blocking of Okonjo-Iweala’s rise to head of the WTO, we noted her close relationship with Linda Thomas-Greenfield, now US President Biden’s UN Ambassador. As we predicted, one of the very first initiatives in the new Biden Administration was to end the Trump blockade against Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

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TIME 100 2021: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO)

TIME 100 2021: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) AOC She

Nigerian-American, MIT PHD, Harvard undergrad economist Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been named to the TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people. Okonjo-Iweala is the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), appointed after the inauguration of US President Joe Biden.

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, give TIME testimony about leader Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, asking the question: what will it take to vaccinate the world? “Unity, cooperation and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,” is their answer.

As Chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (2016 – 2020) and also AU COVID-19 Special Envoy and WHO COVID-19 Special Envoy, Okonjo-Iweala has existing skills and knowledge around global vaccine efforts.

Harry and Meghan remind us that “her job affects every person, family and community.” They continue, writing that “to end the pandemic, we must work together to equip every nation with equitable vaccine access.”

Today only one quarter of the world’s 8 billion people are fully-vaccinated, and Dr. Ngozi Oonjo-Iweala has a tough job ahead. Harry and Meghan write that besides guidance from strong leaders like their friend Ngozi, we have a global duty to find compassion for one another.