Caroline Boudreaux

{{Short description|American businesswoman}}

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| birth_place = Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S.

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| occupation = Founder, Miracle Foundation

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| parents = Robert Boudreaux, Leneta Boudreaux

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| awards = The Hope Award, The Impact Award and The United Nations Humanitarian Award

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Caroline Boudreaux is an American businesswoman and social entrepreneur. In 2000, she left her career in TV advertising to found Texas-based international nonprofit Miracle Foundation.{{Cite news|url=https://women2watch.net/2017/05/09/caroline-boudreaux/|title=Caroline Boudreaux, Miracle Foundation|date=2017-05-09|work=Women to Watch™ Media, LLC.|access-date=2017-09-14|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914220025/https://women2watch.net/2017/05/09/caroline-boudreaux/|archive-date=2017-09-14|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.bemagazine.org/profiles-changemakers-caroline-boudreaux-founder-miracle-foundation/|title=Profiles of Changemakers: Caroline Boudreaux, Founder, The Miracle Foundation|last=|first=|date=|website=www.bemagazine.org|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2017-09-14}}{{Cite web|title=Caroline Boudreaux Starts The Miracle Foundation to Help Orphans in India|url=https://people.com/human-interest/caroline-boudreaux-starts-the-miracle-foundation-to-help-orphans-in-india/|access-date=2020-12-25|website=PEOPLE.com|language=EN}} The decision was made after visiting India and witnessing first hand the conditions orphans were living in.{{Cite book |last1=Seale |first1=Shelley |title=The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India |last2=Collins |first2=Joan |date=30 June 2011 |publisher=CreateSpace |isbn=978-1-4637-8076-0 |editor-first= |edition= |location=}}

In 2009, she was recognized as one of 200 Young Global Leaders{{cite web|title=Caroline Boudreaux|url=http://www.weforum.org/young-global-leaders/caroline-boudreaux|publisher=World Economic Forum}} at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In 2015 she spoke at a TEDxYouth@Austin event.{{Cite web |title=TEDxYouth@Austin {{!}} TED |url=https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/13668 |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=www.ted.com}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXPFPj4cfrc |title=Engineering a Miracle {{!}} Caroline Boudreaux {{!}} TEDxYouth@Austin |date=2015-05-21 |last=TEDx Talks |access-date=2025-04-23 |via=YouTube}} She was named a global visionary by UBS in February 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ubs.com/global/en/wealth-management/globalvisionaries/home.html|title=UBS Global Visionaries|website=Global Visionaries|language=en|access-date=2018-01-11}}