*Meghan Markle is joining forces with Michelle Obama for a gender equality summit this month.
The former actress-turned Duchess of Sussex will be a special guest at the 2020 Girl Up Leadership Summit next week, PEOPLE reports. The event is set to go down virtually this year from July 13 to 15.
“The present is female! But don’t take our word for it. Hear Meghan Markle, The Duchess of Sussex’s advice for global girls leaders when she takes the stage at the 2020 @GirlUp Leadership Summit, happening virtually July 13-15!” GirlUp said in the official tweet on Tuesday.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama is also slated to make an appearance and speak about gender equality and the need for social change.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas will also speak at the event.Â
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The present is female! ? But don’t take our word for it. Hear Meghan Markle, The Duchess of Sussex’s advice for global girls leaders when she takes the stage at our @GirlUp Leadership Summit, happening virtually July 13-15! Register here ?: https://t.co/YZT6jAXw2E #GirlsLead20
— Girl Up (@GirlUp) July 7, 2020
In related news, Markle and her husband Prince Harry say it’s past time for Britain to confront its “uncomfortable” racist history.
“There is no way that we can move forward unless we acknowledge the past,” said Harry alongside Meghan, during an online discussion published Monday with young Black leaders from across the British Commonwealth, which includes countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, per NBC News.
Prince Harry has also noted that he’s “committed to being part of the solution” when it comes to dismantling global institutional racism.
Harry is the first member of the British royal family to openly acknowledge the Black Lives Matter movement.Â
“My wife said recently that our generation and the ones before us haven’t done enough to right the wrongs of the past,” Harry stated during the virtual Diana Awards ceremony on what would’ve been Princess Diana’s 59th birthday, per elle.com.Â
Harry and Meghan have been vocal about the issue of racism since the police killing of George Floyd in May.
“We’re going to have to be a little uncomfortable right now, because it’s only in pushing through that discomfort that we get to the other side of this,” Meghan said during the online meeting. The conversation featured social justice advocates from the Bahamas, U.K. and Australia.
“There is no turning back now, everything is coming to a head,” Harry said. “Solutions exist and change is happening far quicker than it ever has done before.”
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