Millennial CEO of Mogul is Youngest Honoree at the 2018 Alice Paul Awards

Tiffany Pham is one of the hardest working young women I’ve ever met. In her late 20s she started the largest social networking site for young professional women in the world: OnMogul.com, which seeks to connect millennial women with established female professionals, important career advice, job opportunities and more. However, every millennial knows that one job is never enough: she also judges the TLC tv show ‘Girl Starter’, co-hosts the show ‘Positive Pushback’, co-founded the Beijing International Screenwriting Competition with the Vice-Mayor of Beijing, and makes socio-political documentaries with Patricia Arquette. Unsurprisingly this accomplished and prolific young woman was given the 2018 Alice Paul Empowerment Award for her groundbreaking startup, making her the youngest honoree of the evening.
What is Mogul?
Mogul is the largest career and lifestyle focused social media network for young women in the world. Like LinkedIn, Twitter, Etsy, Skillshare and Reddit all rolled into one, the site is an amazing way for young women to connect with female professionals across all industries, share knowledge with each other, find jobs and even sell products. The site has been backed by major organizations, (like The Malala Fund, UN Women and Good Morning America), boasts famous and successful female influencers, (such as Chelsea Clinton, Katie Couric, Rebecca Minkoff, Kelly Osbourne and Margaret Cho), and was honored by several major publications, (Elle, BusinessInsider, Forbes and Entrepreneur).
How did she start Moguling?
As Pham revealed in her moving acceptance speech, she is the latest in a long line of media moguls. Her great uncle ran a major publication in Vietnam and her father advised the French government in media as she was growing up, but as she says her grandmother was her true inspiration. Her grandmother founded several democratic publications that combated propaganda in communist China, keeping information free and democratizing the distribution of media. Pham tearfully recalled the day her grandmother passed away. At the age of 14, Pham made her grandmother a promise: that she would carry on her legacy and work to spread knowledge democratically throughout the world.
However, it wasn’t until her twenties that she had the idea of creating a female centered alternative to the male-dominated Reddit, just after she was named one of Forbes Magazine’s ‘Top 30 Under 30’. Through the article, thousands of young women reached out to her asking how she got her opportunities, what was she reading, what was she watching and how could they get the skills they needed to start their own businesses. After her fingers wore out from responding to every single email, she started to brainstorm how she could help everyone at once. Staying up until 3am every evening, she taught herself how to code what would eventually become the most awarded social media network for young women globally.
Mogul is now accessed by women across 196 countries and 34,470 cities, bringing information to women who do not otherwise have access to education. In countries like Pakistan and Malaysia, young women have been relying on Mogul as a way to look outside of their culture’s traditions and begin to see themselves as capable citizens in a global marketplace. Mogul has even partnered with UN Women in a campaign to provide free education to underprivileged women.
It was evident how much it meant to Pham to be able to provide opportunities and connections to young woman most in need. With every project, she dispels myths of laziness and entitlement attributed to our generation and steps up to provide her peers with the opportunities that the world has so often denied us. She sets a beautiful example of how millennials are changing the world through technology, innovation and a lion-share of courage. I encourage every young woman to get on Mogul and connect with a global network of women who are lifting eachother up and working together to achieve a better future.