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Tall and slender, with glossy dark hair, Jennifer Buffett looks more like Hollywood's idea of a female philanthropist than the real thing.
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But Jennifer, 45, has emerged as a major player in American philanthropy as well as the global movement to empower women and girls.
Her mission to change the world began with the cataclysmic event she calls The Big Bang: the announcement in 2006 by her husband Peter's father, Warren Buffett, one of America's richest men, that he was giving the couple $1 billion to distribute as they saw fit — a charitable gift he also made to his two other grown children.
"The only instruction Warren gave was to go where people aren't necessarily going — to pick a place where you can really make a difference, and stick with it," Jennifer explains.
She and Peter traveled the world trying to figure out which issues to address.
"Everywhere we went, it was so obvious that women and girls were left out of the decision-making," she says. "They have no ass