DUBLIN, Oct. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- ActuallySheCanSM, the female empowerment
campaign by Allergan, today unveiled a striking series of portraits
shot by celebrated photographers Inez van
Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin to announce the launch of
#ActuallySheCan Mentorship, providing young women with
inspirational advice.
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Award-winning Inez and Vinoodh have created portraits of actress
Chloë Grace Moretz, Olympic
gold-medal gymnast Gabby Douglas, actress Gabourey
Sidibe, supermodel and entrepreneur Iman, and television host and
CEO Amanda de Cadenet, alongside their mentors or mentees – women
who have meaningfully impacted their lives or whom they have
supported in turn. The portraits include Amanda with her daughter
Atlanta de Cadenet Taylor; Chloë Grace with her mother and manager
Teri Moretz; Gabourey Sidibe with
producer Lisa Cortes; Iman and
fashion icon Bethann Hardison; and
Gabby Douglas with her sister Arielle
Hawkins. The resulting images – evocative, intimate and
beautiful – poetically capture the power of female mentorship.
To bring their mentorship advice to the campaign's audience,
ActuallySheCan is pleased to release a series of video interviews
of these accomplished women in discussion with TV host Amanda de
Cadenet. These intimate and candid conversations about
personal challenges and perseverance will offer advice to inspire
young women as they embark on their careers and find their unique
paths to achieve their personal goals.
"I attribute so much of my growth, both personally and
professionally, to strong guidance from my mentors. I couldn't be
more pleased to honor that special relationship by joining forces
with #ActuallySheCan Mentorship, helping young women realize the
value of the counsel mentors can provide," said Gabby Douglas, who
is pictured with her mentor in the campaign's photo shoot.
This October, ActuallySheCan joins forces with TEDWomen – an
inspirational organizer of conferences dedicated to celebrating the
power of women creators and change-makers – for the first
#ActuallySheCan Mentorship Live event, providing young women the
opportunity to engage with and seek advice from a reputable network
of female leaders across a variety of fields today. The event,
which is in partnership with TEDWomen but does not confer admission
to the TEDWomen 2016 conference, will be hosted in San Francisco and will be free to attend with
tickets available from Eventbrite.com.
"Each year, TEDWomen is an empowering forum where some of the
world's most insightful and influential women are able to
learn from each other. As an extension of this, we are
excited to be partnering with #ActuallySheCan Mentorship, helping
young women realize the power of mentorship and providing
them access to a wealth of knowledge and
experience," said Lisa Choi Owens, Head of Global
Partnerships at TED.
#ActuallySheCan has amassed a national following with inspiring
content and experiences that resonate with contemporary young
women, creating meaningful, confidence-fueled experiences and
content for its audience. Through the use of their official
hashtag, #ActuallySheCan, the campaign has built an online platform
for women to express their own goals, as well as perpetuate a
larger conversation around female achievement and well-being.
To learn more about #ActuallySheCan Mentorship, visit
ActuallySheCan.com/mentorship or register for updates at
ActuallySheCan.com/Fomo
Notes to Editors:
About #ACTUALLYSHECAN
ActuallySheCan is a campaign that aims to start a movement and
important dialogue around modern female empowerment, celebrating
young women and their ambitions. Through the use of the dedicated
hashtag #ActuallySheCan, the campaign has created a platform upon
which women can express their own goals, as well as perpetuate a
larger conversation around female achievement and well-being.
About Allergan's Women's
Healthcare
Allergan is a leader in women's
health care, dedicated to developing and commercializing
best-in-class pharmaceuticals to help support the health and
wellness of women. Allergan takes a holistic approach to
women's healthcare and provides HCPs and their patients with high
quality medications. Allergan is committed to ensuring that women
have access to information to help make decisions about their
health and well-being.
About Allergan
Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN), headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is a bold, global
pharmaceutical company and a leader in a new industry model –
Growth Pharma. Allergan is focused on developing,
manufacturing and commercializing branded pharmaceuticals, devices
and biologic products for patients around the world.
Allergan markets a portfolio of leading brands and best-in-class
products for the central nervous system, eye care, medical
aesthetics and dermatology, gastroenterology, women's health,
urology and anti-infective therapeutic categories.
Allergan is an industry leader in Open Science, the Company's
R&D model, which defines our approach to identifying and
developing game-changing ideas and innovation for better patient
care. This approach has led to Allergan building one of the
broadest development pipelines in the pharmaceutical industry with
65+ mid-to-late stage pipeline programs in development.
Our Company's success is powered by our more than 15,000 global
colleagues' commitment to being Bold for Life. Together, we build
bridges, power ideas, act fast and drive results for our customers
and patients around the world by always doing what it is right.
With commercial operations in approximately 100 countries,
Allergan is committed to working with physicians, healthcare
providers and patients to deliver innovative and meaningful
treatments that help people around the world live healthier lives
everyday.
For more information, visit Allergan's website at
www.Allergan.com.
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth
Spreading, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes
or fewer) delivered by today's leading thinkers and doers. Many of
these talks are given at TED's annual conference in
Vancouver, British Columbia, its
TEDWomen conference and its TEDGlobal conferences—then made
available, free, on TED.com. TED speakers have
included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth
Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson,
Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.
TED's open and free initiatives for spreading ideas
include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are
posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides
subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from
thousands of volunteers worldwide; the educational
initiative TED-Ed; the
annual million-dollar TED Prize, which funds
exceptional individuals with a "wish," or idea, to create change in
the world; TEDx, which provides licenses to thousands of
individuals and groups who host local,
self-organized TED-style events around the world; and
the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators
from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable
projects and activities.
About TEDWomen
The TEDWomen conference gathers some of the world's most insightful
and influential women and men to celebrate the vital ideas
percolating through their dynamic and diverse communities. Blending
insights from an array of disciplines and fields, TEDWomen convenes
both established leaders and promising new voices. It is a vibrant
platform to recognize female powerhouses driving progress and
crystallizing change around the world.
Forward-Looking Statement
Statements contained in this
press release that refer to future events or other non-historical
facts are forward-looking statements that reflect Allergan's
current perspective of existing trends and information as of the
date of this release. Except as expressly required by law, Allergan
disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking
statements. Actual results may differ materially from Allergan's
current expectations depending upon a number of factors affecting
Allergan's business. These factors include, among others, the
difficulty of predicting the timing or outcome of FDA approvals or
actions, if any; the impact of competitive products and pricing;
market acceptance of and continued demand for Allergan's products;
difficulties or delays in manufacturing; and other risks and
uncertainties detailed in Allergan's periodic public filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited
to Allergan's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2015 and Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2016 (such periodic public filings
having been filed under the "Actavis plc" name). Except as
expressly required by law, Allergan disclaims any intent or
obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
CONTACTS:
Media:
Grace O'Donnell: Mission Media
(212) 219-2787
Lisa Kim: Allergan
(714) 246-3843
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