Director of Communication

Greene is an experienced corporate and nonprofit governance professional with an expansive career in public administration and transportation infrastructure. She also is the founder of JMillette LLC, her own independent consulting firm. Ms. Greene possesses a unique cross-section of professional skills and work experiences have served in various directors’ positions for some of the largest public service organizations and governmental agencies in the U.S.

In these roles, she fostered highly successful business partnerships (B2B) and provided executive strategies that have shaped positive customer perceptions and experiences for various organizations. Currently, Ms. Green is a founding member of global Ready to Beauty a multicultural beauty industry think-tank. She is also on the advisory board of Pan African Network for Investing and Development (PANFID).

Director of Mission

Dr. Angela Balaba’s general dentistry experience spanned over 30 years. She has been privileged through her dental practice experience to aid charitable missions in the United States and in East Africa.  Her hope is and passion is to assist non-profit organizations to empower women all over the world.

Dr. Balaba received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from Queen Elizabeth College, University of London, London, England in 1983, and D.M.D. from Washington University School of Dental Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri in 1987 where she received an Oral Pathology Award.

Dr. Balaba is a member of American Dental Association, American General Dental Association, District of Columbia Dental Society, Robert T. Freeman Dental Society, and Women’s Dentists of Metropolitan DC.

Director of Development

Dr. Maislyn Christie received her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine in 1987. She completed her residency in Pediatrics and Adolescent and Young Adult fellowship at Children’s Medical Center in Washington DC. (1987-1992). In 2019, she received her MBA from University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC).

Dr Christie is a board-certified Pediatrician. Her involvement in local and international missions has exposed her to the needs of women and girls, and affords her a better understanding as to how to address these needs.  She endeavors to stay culturally humble as she partners with organizations who are helping to build dignity in the women and girls in the local and global communities.

Dr. Christie has interacted with a wide cross–section of individuals over her career. She has honed her skills and expertise in comprehensively addressing the medical and psychosocial needs of individuals. Her local community volunteer activities have helped her to focus on addressing the social determinants of health needs of individuals -- a key way to impact health outcomes, especially in underserved communities. She has been involved in a number of medical mission trips to the Caribbean, Central America, and Africa. These trips have helped her to acquire and maintain an understanding of the importance of cultural humility when addressing clients’ health needs. Her particular interest is to enhance the holistic welfare of individuals age 18-24 years who have experienced the foster care system. She continues to work diligently to advocate for these individuals in order to optimize their psychosocial development and allow them to maximize their optimal potential. Dr. Christie and her family reside in Brookeville, Maryland. Her hobbies are reading, gardening, playing the piano and traveling.

President / Founder

Tinuade (Tinu) Akinshola is an attorney with extensive years of corporate transactional and policy working experience that cuts across diverse sectors including small business, contract compliance, community development, public procurement, business investigation, immigration, international human rights, social/gender justice and equity, legal compliance, and international business transactions. She holds an LL.B, BL, LL.M, and an SEP Certificates. Also, she is a Licensed Attorney with bar admissions in the District of Columbia, State of Maryland (inactive), New York State, and Nigeria.

Mrs. Akinshola began her gender justice and equity advocacy career as a Victims’ Advocate and Court Companion of one of Maryland’s non-profit organization that provides crisis intervention services, as well as emergency shelter for victims (usually women) and their children. She later worked as the Program Coordinator for one of local District of Columbia’s Advisory Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect through a non-profit organization that worked to eliminate child abuse and neglect. Both locally and globally especially in developing countries, Tinu would initiate, organize, coordinate, speak, counsel, defend, mentor, and moderate several female/youth/minority’s economic, education, leadership empowerment related and crisis forums, seminars, workshops and conferences in furtherance of her advocacy passion and interest. 

Tinu Akinshola is the Founder and President of She Rises Int’l, Inc., an organization that proactively advocate for gender justice and equity in the locally (U.S.) and throughout the developing world. She served as the Legal Sector Chair of the African Union’s former Pan African Diaspora Women Association (PADWA) under the Leadership of Her Excellency Arikhana Chihombori-Quao. Tinu is currently an Executive Board Member of African Diaspora Development Initiative (ADDI), as well as a Member of the Nigerian American Lawyers Association (NALA) for which she served as the Association’s first Law Students President.

Tinu continues to support and collaborate with various agencies and organizations that represent, assist, and advocate for women, children, and less privileged rights for education, empowerment, social/gender equality and justice programs and activities. She is married and blessed with two amazing children.

Our History

In May 2020, SHE RISES INT’L, INC. was birthed out of the Founder’s passion and desire to empower, promote, counsel and encourage women/girls globally, but specifically in the developing world. Being sandwiched between two female siblings, Tinu Akinshola was born, raised, and grew up in the developing world (Lagos, Nigeria). Although, there were lots of opportunities for a girl-child in that part of the country, nevertheless, women and girls still fall far behind men economically, educationally, as well as in leadership positions due to cultural, religious and ethnic restrictions that mostly favor men and boys.

In some cultures, unlike her male counterpart, a girl-child is warned against dating because of her youthful age; she is forced into a marriage (sometimes to a man twice her age or who already has 1 -2 wives); she is told her biological clock is ticking should she desire to delay child marriage, raising children and/or the number of children she would bring forth into the family; how far she could go in school because her life would end in the kitchen anyway; she cannot pursue a vocation of her choice especially if it is such that falls “outside of women traditionally employment type”; she can only be seen, but not heard; she cannot work outside the home if she is given the opportunity to pursue a career or vocation; and she is mostly blamed for infertility, children’s shortcomings, delinquencies and irresponsibility. 

Having been involved in various paid and volunteer opportunities, Tinu Akinshola consistently advocate, counsel and assist women and girls whether spiritually or professionally ranging from domestic violence, career opportunities, domestic violence, immigration, human trafficking, reproductive health, and as a matter of economics. She would soon journal her thoughts, ideas, affected population, and resources to combat the need. 

Unfortunately, the world became corrupted by COVID-19 and the need increase by the day locally and most especially in the developing world. Consequently, Tinu Akinshola reached out to professionals of similar passion, desire, and objective in assisting women and girls achieve their fullest potential and destiny. 

She Rises Int’l, Inc.’s Board of Directors consist of these charitable and passionate individuals to date in order that women and girls regardless of their geographical location would be mentored, counseled, encouraged and empowered to speak-up for themselves and other females; stay engaged in their communities i.e. politically and on leadership end; be educated and make decisions about their reproductive health; pursue their choice of vocation, education and employment; say no to violence, abuse, human trafficking, and oppression through advocacy, seminars, education scholarship funds, programs and activities in collaboration with other organizations that may have similar mission and goals for all females.

She Rises Int’l, Inc. celebrates women regardless of their geographical location. We encourage you too to include women at all levels

This day is celebrated to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges they face all over the world. Globally,

In the United States, Human Trafficking is defined as “sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force

Women and Girls training, workshops and programs focusing on leadership, self-awareness, entrepreneurship, health education, financial

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