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…
Indiana-born Melanie Wood made history at 16 years old, when she became the first female to make the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad team. She helped the team receive silver medals in 1998 and 1999, and remained the only female to make the team until 2004…
Born of a long line of privileged risk-takers, Katharine Graham’s rise through publishing was undoubtedly paved by her family’s wealth and status. However, not one to rest comfortably on inherited laurels, Graham used her own strength and acumen to revive a struggling paper and push forward causes that were close to her heart…
Lynch was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her early childhood was punctuated by the types of tragedies some kids simply never move past. Her father walked out on her mother and four siblings when Lynch was a young girl, and her mother committed suicide when Lynch was still a preteen…
In September 2020, Citibank announced a change in leadership it hoped would usher in a new era for its business. Jane Fraser was slated to become the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, a role she assumed in February of this year…
Whitney Wolfe Herd was a self-made billionaire before her 13th birthday. The cofounder of Tinder went on to serve the company as vice president of marketing, a role she held when she started receiving the derogatory texts from her boss and ex-boyfriend that prompted her to sue the company for sexual harassment…
