Since the pandemic, GC4W has committed to supporting a few students with scholarships to attend university. Last year, Josh Kenny was a recipient of the GC4W Scholarship. This year, the Global Connections for Women Foundation would love your support with supporting the Scholarship Fund for Denise Francis, a current African American Graduate Student at NYU Gallatin School for Individualized Study. The Scholarship will allow…
Elizabeth Endres Finds Healing in Sharing Acne Struggles By Bella Cacciatore When Elizabeth Endres and her cofounder, Dale Borchiver, started their fitness blog Sweats & The City in 2016, no one could have predicted that the pair would now be on camera daily sharing fitness, beauty, and lifestyle tips with an audience of 109,000 followers. Although turning her passion into a career is…
Environmental health seems to be a priority in the Smith household. Not only have Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith raised their children, Jaden and Willow Smith, to be extremely vocal about the environment, but the busy parents have also instilled the importance of using your influence to make the world a better place. Back in 2015, Jaden—with the help of…
As a former substitute teacher, Taraji P. Henson is on a mission to end racial bias in the classroom. The award-winning actress recently launched a program that promotes mental health awareness and racial equality.
By Emily Pidgeon maggie kim Knowing just two words of English but with a dogged drive for success, KOL Group Founder and CEO Maggie Kim forged an influential career in finance and asset management – a venture spanning continents that has opened her world to new possibilities, although it almost claimed her life. More than a decade before the life-changing moment…
BY LIANA SATENSTEIN For the record, I didn’t ask Sharon Stone to lift up her shirt on our Zoom call. And yet, there we were on a recent afternoon—her, brandishing her rock-hard abs in the living room of her Los Angeles home; me, trying to pick up my jaw off the floor in my Brooklyn apartment. “All you have to do…
By Macaela MacKenzie If anyone knows grit, it’s Chaunte Lowe. The 37-year-old high jumper has competed in four Olympics through three pregnancies. She brought home a bronze medal in 2008 and still holds the American record for the women’s high jump (both indoor and outdoor). And now she’s training for a mind-boggling fifth Olympic appearance—while facing a breast cancer diagnosis, chemotherapy, and a…
From entertainment journalism to primordial sound meditation, Devi Brown relays her personal journey towards achieving wellness and mindfulness.
BY DEVON ABELMAN “Thank god my feet aren’t on camera” is a sentence I never thought I’d hear during an interview over Zoom, let alone from Kate Winslet. But here I am hearing the iconic actor tell me just how badly she needs a pedicure. Throughout the pandemic, Winslet hasn’t touched her toes or visited a salon. “My feet almost look unrecognizable as…
Michelle Williams, The Destiny’s Child vocalist, was recently interviewed to discuss what her mental health journey has been like and how she hopes to help others who are struggling.
