Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton: The world needs your contributions and the 21^st century is in many ways the time when women and girls should be fully embraced to be given their universal human rights no matter who they are or where they live.

Audrey Van Belleghem: The TechWomen program is a professional mentoring exchange.

Subject 1: The TechWomen program is a program to bring qualified, incredibly talented professional women in technology from the Middle East over to the U.S. with the goal of increasing cultural understanding.

Megan Kerins: I mean, it’s a mentoring program. I was a mentor. I had a mentee. But really, it was an exchange of information, of knowledge, of wisdom. And we really ended up inspiring each other, I think, in equal parts.

Jill Finlayson: You should become a TechWomen mentor because you will be inspired, you will learn a lot, and you’ll expand your global network.

Menekse Gencer: You should become a TechWomen mentor because you’re going to get so much more out of it than you can ever imagine.

Christine Duran: Your assumptions will be challenged. You’ll learn amazing things, and you have more within you to contribute to these women and to the growth of women and technology than you ever imagined.