Leader Nancy Pelosi, Olympian Allyson Felix, Journalist Diane Rehm Headline TheWrap's Power Women Breakfast

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TheWrap is pleased to welcome U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Olympic athlete Allyson Felix and legendary Washington radio host Diane Rehm to the 2016 Power Women Breakfast in Los Angeles on October 21.

In addition, three Courage Award-winning journalists will join the annual gathering of top Hollywood executives to speak about their experiences reporting in conflict zones around the world:
*Janine di Giovanni, Middle East Editor of Newsweek and Contributing Editor of Vanity Fair
* Mabel Cáceres, Editor-In-Chief, El Búho Magazine, Peru
* Stella Paul, Freelance Journalist, India

TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast series brings together women of remarkable achievement to connect and inspire the leading influential women of entertainment, media, technology and brands in the key cities where those women work, create, gather, network and connect.

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Among speakers to share their personal stories in 2016 have been actress Lena Dunham, journalist Katie Couric, scientist Poppy Crum, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, actress Anika Noni Rose, journalist Maureen Dowd and many others.

The breakfasts in 2016 have convened in Washington D.C., San Francisco, New York and now Los Angeles.

As the nation prepares to vote in an historic presidential contest, TheWrap is honored to welcome Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 114th Congress. From 2007 to 2011, Pelosi served as Speaker of the House, the first woman to do so in American history. As the Democratic Leader, Pelosi is fighting for bigger paychecks and better infrastructure for America’s middle class families. For 29 years, Rep. Leader Pelosi has represented San Francisco, California’s 12th District, in Congress. She has led House Democrats for more than 12 years and previously served as House Democratic Whip.

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Allyson Felix is a six-time Olympic gold medalist and the most decorated female Olympian in the history of track and field. A native of Los Angeles and the daughter of an ordained minister father and a teacher mother, Felix has broken world records in the 200 meter race. She won three gold medals at the 2012 London Olympic games, and won two gold medals and a silver in Rio.

Diane Rehm has hosted the Diane Rehm Show, which airs on WAMU 88.5 FM in Washington DC and is distributed nationally by NPR, since 1979. She engages an on-air audience of more than 2.4 million listeners each week. Her recent announcement that she will retire after the 2016 election signals the end of a storied career in which she set the standard for interview shows, and spotlighted women and women’s issues. Rehm is the recipient of the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Women’s Foundation.

A charity auction will benefit the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF).

For media coverage contact Traci Harper traci.harper@thewrap.com

Theresa May to Angela Merkel: Meet the World's Most Powerful Female Political Leaders (Photos)

As Theresa May prepares to become Britain's next prime minister, take a look at some of the most prominent female political leaders in the world.
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Theresa May, Prime Minister of the U.K.

May is the new prime minister following the withdrawal of opponent Andrea Leadsome. May — who was Britain's home secretary — will be responsible for leading negotiations with the European Union after the Brexit vote, stabilizing the U.K.'s economy, and responding to growing calls for independence from Scotland.

May is Britain's second female prime minister after Margaret Thatcher. She will formally be appointed by Queen Elizabeth II.
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Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

Merkel has been leading Germany since 2005 and the Christian Democratic Union of Germany since 2000. A former research scientist, Merkel is also the first female chancellor of Germany and the longest-serving incumbent government head in the European Union. She is ranked as the most powerful woman in politics on Forbes' 2016 list.
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Tsai Ing-wen, President of the Republic of China

Tsai, who assumed office on May 20, is the first female president of Taiwan. Before winning in a landslide victory, she formerly served as the chair of Democratic Progressive Party. She has also publicly endorsed same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights on her Facebook page.
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Bidhya Devi Bhandari, President of Nepal

Elected last year, Bhandari is Nepal's second president and first woman to take on the position. She is a member of the Communist Party of Nepal and had been campaigning to secure women's rights in the country's new constitution.
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Park Geun-hye, President of South Korea

Park — who is the first woman to be elected as South Korea's president — previously served as the chairwoman of the Saenuri Party (formerly called the Conservative Grand National Party) and was a member of the Korean National Assembly. Her father, Park Chung-hee, was the president of South Korea from 1963 to 1979.
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia

In 2011, Sirleaf was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen for their "non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work." She is the first woman to be elected as a head of state in Africa and the chair of the Economic Community of West African States.

Sirleaf also happens to be the aunt of actress and comedian Retta, who portrayed Donna on "Parks and Recreation."
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Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of Croatia

Grabar-Kitarović assumed office in 2015 as Croatia's fourth president. She is the first woman and youngest person to be elected to the position. She previously has served as Croatia's minister of European affairs, minister of foreign affairs and European integration, assistant secretary general for public diplomacy at NATO, and ambassador to the United States.
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Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile

Bachelet has won the Chilean presidential elections twice and currently serves as the 37th president. She was the inaugural executive director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and served as the health minister and defense minister under previous Chilean president Ricardo Lagos.
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Sheikh Hasina Wajed, Prime Minister of Bangladesh

As a leader of the Bangladesh Awami League, Hasina has served as prime minister three times. Her first term lasted from 1996 to 2001 and the second term between 2009-2014. She began her third term in 2014 after winning the election, which was boycotted by the main opposition alliance.
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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, President of Mauritius

Gurib-Fakim, a biodiversity scientist, was elected president in 2015. She is the first woman elected to the position and is currently the managing director of CIDP Research & Innovation, where she studies the medicinal and nutritive uses of Mauritius' indigenous plants. She was a professor at the University of Mauritius and was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in 2007.
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Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of Lithuania

As Lithuania's first female president, Grybauskaitė was inaugurated in 2009 and re-elected in 2014. She previously served as the vice minister of foreign affairs, minister of finance, and European commissioner for financial programming and the budget. Along with presidents Barack Obama, Joachim Gauck and François Hollande, Grybauskaitė boycotted the Sochi Winter Olympics.
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