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
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ENCORE from June 2021 Elissa Fisher Harris is an inspirational example of how channeling adversity into living a life on purpose provides fulfillment and resilience. Her own experience growing up mostly homeless until the age of 13 taught her how uncertainty can make you fearful at a very young age; an autoimmune disorder in her
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Bobbie LaPorte has combined her experience in executive leadership of Fortune 50 companies with her training as an endurance athlete to forge a method of positive leadership that focuses on strengths and being prepared for anything. Bobbie says you can’t plan for a race that lasts hours, because there is no way to know if
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Samantha Karlin is an impassioned leader for social change and has equipped herself with experiences that show how women use power to lead in different ways. She saw her mother behave fiercely and fearlessly when she testified before Congress to get permission for experimental treatment to save her disabled daughter’s life. She learned how women
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Katie Steele Danner is the Executive Director of the Greater Missouri Leadership Foundation, and as a graduate alumnus of the third class of the Leadership Challenge, she has personally experienced how the statewide program grows women leaders in many careers throughout the state. Now in its 32nd year, the Challenge has grown 1,300 alumni that
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Kelly Nevins is currently CEO for the Women’s Fund of Rhode Island (WFRI), the job she announced she wanted while getting her master’s degree in leadership. Growing up the daughter of a single mom who struggled to support her daughters while facing challenges that working men didn’t have made Kelly intimately aware of the workplace
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When Dr. Sheila Robinson said, “You have the power in you,” she was referring to her upcoming book, Redefining Your D.I.E.T. and Transform How You Look, Feel and Perform, but it pertains to practically everything in this conversation, from her childhood story where her mother taught her to work hard and be happy, to the
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Gloria Feldt admits she made up the word “intentioning” to describe what happens when intention becomes an action. While intention is a wonderful word, it’s static, and Gloria wanted an active verb. She says that, “intentioning is an active verb because I want women to know that we’re talking about not just ambition, not just
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Terra Renee was born to a family involved in activism, but entertainment was her own idea for a career. The two drives collided when Terra discovered a thousand other women who looked like her auditioning for a very small part in a TV show. Being young and naïve didn’t stop her from instantly realizing that
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In Afghanistan, the withdrawal of U.S. and allied troops last month, signaled an end to much of the progress that women in the country had made, and many of the rights they had come to enjoy. While Taliban leadership assured citizens that they would allow women to work and pursue education, the hard-handed Taliban rule
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