By Violette de Ayala In 2014, Wendy Diamond founded Women’s Entrepreneurship Day with an inaugural event at the United Nations in NYC while hosting simultaneous events in 144 other nations recognizing the day and mission of creating a movement honoring women entrepreneurs. Women’s Entrepreneurship Day since then, has been celebrated annually on November 19th. But, supporting women entrepreneurs isn’t something we should…
BY MADISON FELLER Brittany Packnett Cunningham wasn’t looking for the fame that sometimes comes with being an activist in 2020. She started her career as an educator who took a senior role at Teach for America in her mid-20s. Then in 2014, after a police officer killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, Packnett Cunningham gained recognition as one of the organizers of the Ferguson protests.…
“Someone in my position can show women and people of colour that we have a voice, because Lord knows I use mine,” said the tennis star in a new interview. BY CHELSEY SANCHEZ For tennis icon Serena Williams, speaking out is a necessary endeavor—especially for someone who has as big of a platform as she does. Chatting with British Vogue for its November cover…
By Roger Trapp On the face of it, 2020 looked like a year when women in leadership positions made progress. Not only was it well noted that countries with female heads of state — including Taiwan and New Zealand — were among those that seemed to cope best with the coronavirus pandemic. But in the U.S. Kamala Harris was last…
By: Anna Borges If you’re spending the holidays alone for the first time this year, you’re…well, not alone, at least in that way. On top of those who typically spend the holidays solo, there are also plenty of people choosing to do their important part in slowing the spread of COVID-19 by avoiding travel and going it alone for the first time. There’s nothing…
Louise Glück, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. Doudna, and Andrea M. Ghez just became Nobel laureates. BY CHELSEY SANCHEZ Since the Nobel Prize was established in 1895, less than 60 women have been honored with the prestigious international award. This week, four women–Louise Glück, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. Doudna, and Andrea M. Ghez–were added to that roster, triumphing in literature, chemistry, and physics. Below,…
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BY JACQUELINE GUICHELAAR AS TOLD TO KATHARINE SCHWAB A large population of my direct reports are in the U.S., but I’ve also got people in the U.K., and in the Asia-Pacific region. And because people aren’t flying anymore, we’re doing all our strategy sessions every quarter, every month, every week on video calls. So if you want to do a…
By CHELSEY SANCHEZ Moderna is now reporting that its developing COVID-19 vaccine is 95 percent effective, and Dolly Parton is apparently partially to thank. The Dolly Parton COVID-19 Research Fund was listed as one of the major donors in this latest breakthrough, as reported in a new article published by The New England Journal of Medicine. Earlier this year, the country singer donated $1…
If you’re currently in college or just starting out in a career, an online portfolio is a place to store your work, regardless of whether it’s relevant to your future career or not.
