Coming to a campus near you
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Experience
Step into a full-sensory event built around one of the most powerful stories in sports. Screen the documentary She Runs the World, explore an on-site sponsor village curated around wellness, ambition, and women who refuse to be overlooked, and walk away with more than a memory.
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Engage
This isn't a lecture. It's a conversation. Join Allyson and Wes Felix for a live Q&A and meet & greet where nothing is off the table — the sacrifices, the breakthroughs, the moments doubt showed up and got outrun anyway. Ask the questions that matter to you.
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Empower
Every person in that room carries a story they hasn't told yet. This tour exists to change that. Through film, honest dialogue, and the living proof standing in front of you, the She Runs the World Tour gives students and attendees permission to use their voice — even when it shakes.
She runs the world synopsis
She Runs the World is the electrifying story of Allyson Felix, the most decorated Olympic track and field athlete in history, who risked everything to fight for what she knew was right.
At the peak of her career, Allyson and her husband learned she was pregnant, yet their delight was tempered by a concern that her sponsor—Nike—would financially penalize her. Their worst fears were realized; a public fight for maternal protections in sports ensued. Nike had proposed slashing her salary by nearly 70% even though it still planned to use her image widely. Although Nike eventually was willing to agree to special protection for Allyson, one of their most forward-facing women athletes, Allyson was adamant that maternal protections for all female athletes be promised by Nike, not just those few with clout. Nike refused. Instead of accepting the favorable conditions offered to her specifically and letting other women battle for themselves, Allyson refused to back down and went public with their disagreement. She walked away from the guaranteed income from Nike and launched her own sneaker brand, the first ever designed specifically for women’s feet—and went on to unprecedented Olympic glory.
Allyson had successfully turned her personal and professional battles into a movement, compelling a billion dollar industry to change.
This longitudinal film, featuring never-before-seen archival footage gathered over the course of 35 years, delves deep into Allyson’s career and personal story, her family, her drive, her charm, her joy and her beliefs.
She Runs the World is a testament to how each of us can make a difference by being true to our own values.
Tour Dates
Fall Dates Announced Soon
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Frequently Asked Questions
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We’re currently working on distribution for this film and are hoping that it will have a home soon so everyone can see it. For now, the only way you can see the film is by attending the She Runs The World Tour.
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Perri Peltz
DIRECTOR / PRODUCERPerri Peltz is an Emmy® award winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and public health advocate. Most recently, Perri directed The Last Twins, in select theaters, Can’t Look Away for Bloomberg Originals and Surveilled with Ronan Farrow for HBO with Matthew O’Neill. Perri and Matt also created the Emmy® winning documentary news series AXIOS on HBO, and directed and produced the 2019 HBO Documentary, Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America. Previously, Perri directed the HBO documentaries, Warning: This Drug May Kill You, about the opioid addiction epidemic and Risky Drinking, about alcohol use disorder. She co-directed A Conversation About Growing Up Black as part of the “Conversation on Race” series for The New York Times Op-Docs, and other films include HBO’s Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. and Prison Dogs. Perri hosts “The Perri Peltz Show” on SiriusXM Radio and has a Doctorate in Public Health from Columbia University. She was previously an award-winning broadcast journalist for NBC, ABC, and CNN.
MATTHEW O’NEILL
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
Matthew O’Neill is an Emmy® Award winning and Academy Award® nominated documentary filmmaker and journalist. He most recently directed The Last Twins, in select theaters, Can’t Look Away for Bloomberg Originals and Surveilled with Ronan Farrow for HBO with Perri Peltz. Matt and Perri also created the Emmy® winning HBO documentary news series AXIOS on HBO and directed and produced the 2019 HBO documentary Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America. Matt has been making non-fiction films and series with Downtown Community Television Center, Inc, (DCTV) in NYC's Chinatown for the last 25 years. His earlier projects for HBO, ESPN, Disney+, Netflix and FRONTLINE have focused on everything from the Egyptian Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American criminal justice system, and the School of American Ballet. His filmmaking has taken him to more than 50 different countries for films including Baghdad ER, In Tahrir Square and Wartorn. He has received two Academy Award nominations for Redemption and China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province and has been recognized with two Columbia DuPont Awards, a Peabody Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, six Emmy Awards and a Director’s Guild nomination.
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Drop us a note at info@srtwtour.com and we’ll get right back to you. We’re currently confirming campuses for Fall now.