As co-chair of the world’s largest private charitable foundation, melinda gates is one of the most powerful women in philanthropy. Co-founder of the bill & melinda gates foundation, she is not only a … Melinda french gates[2] (born melinda ann french;

Born and raised in dallas, texas, she was educated at ursuline academy of dallas, duke university, … Along with her husband, melinda gates initiated her charitable endeavors in 1994, largely at the behest of bill’s father, william h. Gates, but also from the example of bill’s mother, a devoted philanthropist …