Born to a Bulgarian father and Brazilian mother in 1947, Dilma Rousseff’s initial foray into politics started in socialism and ended with a mugshot. At 20 years old, she joined a guerilla group to fight back against Brazil’s dictatorial regime. While under that rule, Rousseff was tortured and imprisoned for three years for “subversive behavior”…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 100 Women Leaders in Medicine of 2021. These exceptional individuals are guiding healthcare delivery, leading changes and enhancing policy improvements nationwide…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 100 Women Leaders in Medicine of 2021. These exceptional individuals are guiding healthcare delivery, leading changes and enhancing policy improvements nationwide…
A modern-day Renaissance Woman, Dr. Chika Oriuwa’s talents are truly diverse. A doctor, poet, spoken word artist, and a fierce advocate for the underprivileged, Oriuwa has leveraged each of her skills as stepping stones for people in marginalized populations…
Maternally descended from 19th-century Chiang Mai royalty, Yingluck Shinawatra began her studies of business and politics at public universities on either side of the Pacific Ocean—at Chiang Mai University in Thailand and Kentucky State University in the U.S…
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and its prestigious Wharton School of Business, Tricia Griffith began her career with Progressive as a claims representative in 1988. She stuck with the company for over 30 years…
Sylvia Plath, whose one novel and two collections of poetry were received far better posthumously than when she was still alive, was a prolific and determined writer often overshadowed by her husband and her own gnawing sense of impending doom…
When Helen Greiner was ten years old, her parents took her to watch a movie in the “Star Wars” franchise. She credits this outing, and her love of the character R2D2, for inspiring her lifelong love of robots…
Hailing from a working class Italian American family in Chicago, Ginni Rometty had her nose to the grindstone from a very young age. In Rometty’s teens, her single mother worked multiple jobs to support her family, so Rometty spent most evenings managing the household and caring for her siblings…
Mia Love’s path to being the first Black Republican woman in the House of Representatives began with her parents’ journey from Haiti. Escaping the notoriously cruel dictator Francois Duvalier in 1974, Love’s parents fled their home country and carved out a new life for their growing family in Brooklyn, New York…
