Leila de Bruyne is the co-founder of Flying Kites, a Leadership School & Teacher-Training Center serving 16,000 students in rural Kenya. A lifelong advocate for the power of education, Leila has raised more than $25 million to support critical services and expand opportunity for marginalized children, with a particular focus on girls, and her work has recognized by the Longines Women of Courage and Vision Award, The Obama Foundation's Girls Opportunity Alliance, and Bono's Herstory initiative, highlighting female leaders and activists promoting gender equality.

As a writer, Leila's work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, TED, Forbes and Motherly. Her debut novel, Eliza is a sultry and darkly funny exploration of desire, aging, and motherhood— somewhere between a Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason and a literary Fifty Shades of Grey.

Read a summary of Eliza here.