While America loved to celebrate her as the first African-American woman and first Native American woman to hold a pilot’s license, Bessie Coleman had to cross an ocean to even be allowed to learn how to fly. Born in 1892 to Texas sharecroppers, Coleman grew up picking cotton a few short miles away from Paris, Texas…
Aurora James grew up in Toronto with her Canadian mother and Ghanaian father. The family split their time between Canada and Jamaica, where James’s mind was opened to island life and the rich colors and vibrant history that informed much of her childhood. James also traveled to Africa and spent a few years in Los Angeles before settling down in New York to tend to her boutique-turned-burgeoning fashion empire…
Ann Druyan is a self-described “hunter-gatherer of stories.” She has spent her career making science more accessible and exciting for a wide audience, sharing her own fascination with the cosmos and helping to inspire people to never stop asking questions. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer co-wrote Cosmos…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 100 Women Leaders of New Jersey for 2021. This year’s awardees represent an elite group of leaders who have used their knowledge and insight to lead in companies across nearly all industries…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 100 Women Leaders of New Jersey for 2021. This year’s awardees represent an elite group of leaders who have used their knowledge and insight to lead in companies across nearly all industries…
Perhaps most well known for her portrayals of Karen Fillipelli on “The Office” and the sweet-yet-blunt Anne Perkins on “Parks and Recreation,” Rashida Jones felt the effects of the public eye long before she was willingly in its spotlight…
The daughter of Latvian and Russian immigrants, Patricia Goldman-Rakic was a trailblazing professor of psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, and neurology at Yale University School of Medicine. Her work unveiled many mysteries of the brain’s prefrontal cortex, and she is largely responsible for the way we view working memory today…
The phrase “working for NASA” may bring to mind strong-jawed heroic types in spacesuits, ex-fighter pilots who opted to switch birds rather than retire, backed by rows of uniformed computer jockeys who monitor wall-sized screens for the astronauts’ safety…
Few people have garnered as much criticism from both feminists and the patriarchy as Camille Paglia. In fact, whether she should be called a feminist at all has been the debate of scholars for generations now, and undoubtedly the central question of many post-graduate theses…
Born in Galveston, Texas to a father in the midst of his medical residency and a mother who worked as a nurse in the same hospital, Senator Barbara Bollier’s passion for healthcare is in her blood. When Bollier was a small child, the family moved to Fairway, Kansas, where she lived until she was off to college…
