Ava DuVernay is the first black woman to direct a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. An incredible accomplishment highlighted in TIME Magazine’s Firsts Edition on Women changing the World. Here is The Director’s Full Interview: “I’m bolstered by folks who create their own ceilings.” Regarding “the glass ceiling,” I think there have been cracks made by women who can get close enough to hit it…
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon Review the US breast cancer statistics by Breastcancer.org, and we recognize the need to be weary and careful. For women in the U.S., breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer after skin cancer. About 12% of U.S. women…
GC4W is proud to share the videos of our holistic lifestyle expert, Cassandra Bodzak. Cassandra is the best selling author of Eat with Intention: Recipes and Meditations for a Life the Lights You Up and the founder of the online mind-body-soul support community, Aprecity.com. Cassandra is a global meditation and wellness teacher who instructs people on how to utilize the technologies of food,…
Melinda Gates is the first woman philanthropist who gave away more than $40 billion and is the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. An incredible accomplishment highlighted in TIME Magazine’s Firsts Edition on Women changing the World. Here is The Philanthropist’s Full Interview: “The plight of women was a rallying call.” My dad worked in the aerospace and aeronautics industry, and…
Congratulations to Social Entrepreneurs and Seniors at University of Pennsylvania Selamawit Bekele and Antoinette Zoumanigui on receiving $99,900 through the President’s Engagement Prize for Project Y.V.E.T.A. “Project Y.V.E.T.A. will contribute toward building economic resilience for a generation representing not only Senegal’s, but Africa’s future,” said Antoinette Zoumanigui, Class of 2017 at University of Pennsylvania. “Centered on skill development and accessible quality education will help drive…
Ann Dunwoody is the first woman to become a Four-Star General in the U.S. military. An incredible accomplishment highlighted in TIME Magazine’s Firsts Edition on Women changing the World. Here is The General’s Full Interview: “We want the best and the brightest, male or female.” I was a tomboy. I loved sports. I was going to be a coach and phys-ed…
Michelle Phan is the first woman to build a $500 million company from a web series. An incredible accomplishment highlighted in TIME Magazine’s Firsts Edition on Women changing the World. Here is The Entreprenur’s Full Interview: “The first person I wanted to tell was my mother.” I uploaded my first video in 2007. Social media wasn’t even called social media yet.…
Congratulations to the Founder and CEO of the Global Connections for Women Foundation, Lilian Ajayi-Ore on her latest feature in Forbes Woman Africa. The Editor of the magazine, Renuka Methil, caught up with Lilian in their October – November issue about “Africans in the Diaspora.” “I am a women and girls global advocate, who believes in the importance of creating programs…
Carla Hayden is the first woman and first African American to a Librarian of Congress. An incredible accomplishment highlighted in TIME Magazine’s Firsts Edition on Women changing the World. Here is The Librarian’s Full Interview: “I saw myself in a book and that will never leave me.” Bright April by Marguerite de Angeli was how I first learned about library fines. I…
Janet Yellen is the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve. An incredible accomplishment highlighted in TIME Magazine’s Firsts Edition on Women changing the World. Here is The Chair’s Full Interview: “Unfortunately, women and minority economists are still underrepresented.” I had worked primarily as an economics professor and researcher before joining the Fed as a governor in 1994. This really marked…
