Lina Khalifeh is the founder of SheFighter, the first self-defence studio for women-only in Jordan and the Middle East. The company is designed to empower women physically and mentally through self-defence training, and has trained over 18,000 women. After starting training women at the basement of her parent’s house using her experience in taekwondo, kickboxing and Kung-Fu Khalifeh opened the studio in 2012. Khalifeh was honoured by former US President Barack Obama at the White House’s Emerging Global Entrepreneurship event in 2015, and awarded the Economic Empowerment Leadership award by Hillary Clinton and Vital Voices in Washington D.C. in 2018.
Career History
VITAL STATISTICS
BoF VOICES Day 2: The Shape of Things to Come
New and rapidly evolving markets offer exciting opportunities for the fashion industry, but the sector also faces an internal reckoning as it struggles to measure up to growing demands for a more inclusive future.
BoF VOICES Day 2: The Shape of Things to Come
New and rapidly evolving markets offer exciting opportunities for the fashion industry, but the sector also faces an internal reckoning as it struggles to measure up to growing demands for a more inclusive future.
Lina Khalifeh Is Empowering Women Through Self-Defence
Commended by Barack Obama as a “leader of social change,” the founder of SheFighter got the audience on their feet for an impromptu self-defence class on stage at BoF VOICES.
Lina Khalifeh Is Empowering Women Through Self-Defence
Commended by Barack Obama as a “leader of social change,” the founder of SheFighter got the audience on their feet for an impromptu self-defence class on stage at BoF VOICES.