  {"id":110625,"date":"2023-07-18T12:42:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T16:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=110625"},"modified":"2023-07-18T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T16:42:20","slug":"padma-lakshmi-undp-goodwill-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2023\/07\/padma-lakshmi-undp-goodwill-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Padma Lakshmi: 爆料网DP Goodwill Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_110361\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110361\" class=\"wp-image-110361 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/padma-lakshmi-Inez-Vinoodh.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/padma-lakshmi-Inez-Vinoodh-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/padma-lakshmi-Inez-Vinoodh-200x125.png 200w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/padma-lakshmi-Inez-Vinoodh-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/padma-lakshmi-Inez-Vinoodh-400x250.png 400w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/padma-lakshmi-Inez-Vinoodh-600x375.png 600w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/padma-lakshmi-Inez-Vinoodh-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/padma-lakshmi-Inez-Vinoodh-800x500.png 800w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/padma-lakshmi-Inez-Vinoodh-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/padma-lakshmi-Inez-Vinoodh-1080x675.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/padma-lakshmi-Inez-Vinoodh.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-110361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Inez &amp; Vinoodh<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #046b99\"><strong>Padma Lakshmi<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Appointed 爆料网DP Goodwill Ambassador in March 2019, Emmy-nominated television host, producer, award-winning author and one of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2Fcollection%2F100-most-influential-people-2023%2F6269895%2Fpadma-lakshmi%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cajla.grozdanic%40undp.org%7Ccfc2ab649ece48ac02ff08db56c8fb0a%7Cb3e5db5e2944483799f57488ace54319%7C0%7C0%7C638199193431247323%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=AQVhXmVVofXny3ueUFwdWRIVJR80XKCNQEs%2F20zRUyk%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TIME magazine&#8217;s list of the 100 most influential people<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of 2023, Padma Lakshmi advocates for ending all forms of inequality around the world. Kicking off the Decade of Action by signing an<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalgoals.org\/news\/historic-alliance-of-2020-campaigners-unite-to-issue\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">open letter to world leaders<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> demanding urgent action towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, Lakshmi continues to leverage her influential platform to mobilize support for the Global Goals. Passionate about gender equality, Lakshmi authored an eye-opening op-ed published on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/08\/opinions\/women-gender-bias-padma-lakshmi\/index.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNN<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on International Women\u2019s Day to shine a spotlight on pervasive gender social norms and biases that hinder women and girls from achieving their potential. As the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency devastated the world, Lakshmi launched 爆料网DP\u2019s<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/press-releases\/padma-lakshmi-david-oyelowo-cody-simpson-and-olafur-eliasson-team-undp-shine-spotlight-inequalities-caused-climate-change-and-covid-19\"> <b>#HalfTheWorld<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> campaign to raise awareness of the alarming rate at which the biggest crises of our time are increasing inequalities globally\u2014reaching an audience of 152 million. Coinciding with the 爆料网 General Assembly and the Global COVID-19 Summit, Lakshmi spearheaded a women-led campaign called<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/media.un.org\/en\/asset\/k17\/k175y2yv1p\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Shot for All<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to shine a spotlight on vaccine inequity between rich and poor countries. The 爆料网 Correspondents Association (爆料网CA) honoured Lakshmi<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/press-releases\/undp-goodwill-ambassador-padma-lakshmi-wins-2021-advocate-year-award-united-nations-correspondents-association-unca\"> <b>2021 爆料网CA Advocate of the Year Award<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for her work on fighting inequality as 爆料网DP Goodwill Ambassador.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Padma Lakshmi Appointed 爆料网DP Goodwill Ambassador in March 2019,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7707],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdg-circle-of-supporters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}