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Lucina Di Meco calls herself a recovering political activist and has been promoting women’s rights for the last twenty years, working with a wide range of international social profits, foundations, and United Nations agencies. She co-founded #She Persisted after the groundbreaking study, #ShePersisted. Women, Politics & Power in the New Media World, to pursue and […]

When Jennifer Faust became CEO of Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara in January of this year, she brought with her over two decades of international policy experience, along with the advantage of having strong female role models growing up. She also had a vision for making sure every girl has the support she needs

Amanda B. Cunningham is Chief Operating Officer of Her Future Coalition and one of their partner organizations, Yoga Medicine® Seva, both of which serve the mission of ending human trafficking by helping at-risk women and girls to break the cycle of poverty that is the direct cause of human trafficking. Amanda says that the illegal

ENCORE — THE WAYMAKERS RELEASED MAY 3! Tara Jaye Frank built a career as an equity strategist and teaching executives to become “waymakers” for workplace equity by listening and observing how people behaved and built relationships. She used that knowledge to become a greeting card writer at Hallmark Cards and used it again and again

Susan Whiting says, “When we don’t include women’s contributions to history, we’re teaching a story riddled with holes.” Susan, who serves as the Chair of the Board of the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM), is excited to announce that after 26 years of providing online information about women’s contributions to history to teachers, students and

Kelli Thompson is a leadership coach on a mission to help women advance to the rooms where decisions are made and show them how trusting their intuition will help them align their career with their values. For over a decade Kelli worked in tech and banking, which are both dominated by men. Often as one

Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, writer, speaker, and artist, whose creativity has been recognized with over 80 awards including being honored by Newsweek as one of the Women Shaping the 21st Century. Tiffany’s innovative genius shows in how she approaches a new idea by examining it thoroughly in terms of where we have been, where

Michele Meyer-Shipp has a career full of pivots with four core principles: build relationships wherever you go, seek out challenges that make you learn and grow, ask for what you want (including frequent feedback) and access the “power of the collective.” All of this has directed her career from law into human resources and DEI

Jensine Larsen’s journalism career began when she was a painfully shy 19-year-old listening to the story of indigenous women whose children were dying from oil contamination on their native lands in the Ecuadorian Amazon. She said their eyes were hopeful as they begged her to please tell their story. She seized on journalism as a