Cleopatra Fitzgerald, a politician, music artist, and interfaith minister, attended the high-level Open for Business Africa Summit 2025 hosted by CEO Djibril Diallo at the United Nations. The summit, held in New York, focused on fostering collaboration and investment while celebrating African cultural achievements, innovation, and heritage. Fitzgerald participated alongside her mother, emphasizing the family's dedication to public awareness initiatives.
The summit featured speeches, poetry, musical performances, and discussions urging global partnerships for progress. Open for Business Africa serves as a platform to promote awareness of African achievements and cultural heritage, seeking global collaboration and business opportunities to address societal and economic challenges. The initiative aims to advance sustainable development and public engagement, calling for unity toward shared goals.
A key focus of the summit was the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal #5: achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls. President Djibril Diallo led attendees in raising the symbolic Red Card, a gesture of collective commitment to ending discrimination against women and girls. As a special guest, Fitzgerald spoke with Diallo and other international leaders, offering support for these initiatives and representing her broader mission, Cosmic World Causes, which advocates for nondiscrimination across human and non-human communities.
Fitzgerald has long advocated for non-discrimination, tolerance, gender equality, peace, and security, aligning with UN global goals and Diallo's commitment to gender equality and global partnerships. She stated, "Attending the UN and listening, meeting, speaking to a diversity of people aligned with my public advocacy and Cosmic World Causes in that each person has a mission in life and that each person is special and should not be discriminated against." She emphasized respect for all beings, including non-human entities, and the importance of global partnerships for societal breakthroughs.
The event was livestreamed on UN Web TV, with highlights showing Fitzgerald seated during speeches and musical performances. A separate YouTube video captured attendees applauding notable women.
Fitzgerald, a graduate of Hunter College and The City College of New York with a degree in Political Science, also holds a PhD in Metaphysical Humanistic Science specializing in Ufology. She is a Lead Certified Paranormal Investigator, Ufologist, and Cryptozoologist, and has certifications in Human Rights and Anti-Trafficking. Her work continues to bridge public awareness and advocacy for global causes.
