So you’ve got your digital ticket, and the livestream viewing party you are planning is coming together. So now what?
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Shayla Price is also known by many as the “Scholarship Queen” due to the fact that she has helped more than 5,000 students apply for college scholarships. Shayla herself didn’t apply for any student loans when she went to college because she earned $100,000 for herself in scholarship money.
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A year from now, looking back on 2014, what do you want this year to have been about?
I’d like to see us get out of our own way, get out ahead of the internal fears, “shoulds” and “what if’s” that too often hamstring our change-making efforts and distract from the tasks before us. With women so vastly underrepresented in our major institutions and poorly represented in media, we have plenty of things working against us. We don’t want to work against ourselves, too.
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Cindy Carpenter is the President and Founder of Cortney’s Place, a nonprofit organization that raises the bar for the physically and mentally disabled.
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Durga Shakti Nagpal is a 28-year-old civil servant who took on an illegal sand mining operation in her district. In collaboration with the local police, she arrested 104 people and seized 81 vehicles.
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Dana Theus is the President & CEO of InPower Consulting, a development and culture-design firm specializing in cultivating and supporting gender-partnered leadership teams, helping companies retain their best talent (especially women). Dana is a research-based advocate for talent innovation and women’s leadership change initiatives that produce business results.
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Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever is the President of Incite Unlimited, a Washington, DC-based boutique consulting firm and the Host of the new nationally syndicated radio show, Focus Point with Avis Jones-DeWeever. A Washington insider, Dr. Jones-DeWeever has been featured on CNN, C-SPAN, PBS, BET, TV-ONE, CBC, Al Jazeera America,
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You might be kicking back after Christmas or be in full holiday swing through the New Year. Maybe even making cookies???
Well so are we! But while we are enjoying holiday festivities, we want to thank you for supporting Take The Lead and make sure you have marked your calendar for the Take The Lead Challenge Launch Event on February 19th. Plan on being with us live or via livestream.
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Trish Millines Dziko, a former manager at Microsoft, became a trailblazer in the field of IT before it came into style. After seeing very little change in the high tech industry around the underrepresentation of women and people of color, she founded the Technology Access Foundation (TAF).
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Kshama Sawant is a Seattle City Council member-elect and is the first socialist to be elected in Seattle for more than a century. An economics teacher at Seattle Central Community College, she stunned the Seattle progressive community by beating a longtime Democratic council member in the November election.
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Reading Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In on Kindle earlier this year, I noticed one of the most underlined passages was this one: “Fear is at the root of so many barriers women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged.”
The fact that this is one of the most underlined passages is interesting, but I don’t think it’s fear women are wrestling with
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Emily Graslie is the host of the educational YouTube channel, “The Brain Scoop,” based out of the Chicago Field Museum. “(It) is one of the warmest, slyest video blogs on the web,” writes NPR science reporter Robert Krulwich. “She’s where I go to find out what museum scientists are up to — and right now she’s at the Field Museum
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