Growing up, Rachel Dratch considered herself a class clown. With a comedic career that reaches back to her college days, it’s safe to say that embracing that identity has worked out for her…
Michelle Sung Wie West began playing golf at just four years old. At age 10, she became the youngest player ever to qualify for a United States Golf Association (USGA) amateur championship…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of Virginia for 2022. This group of esteemed individuals are leading organizations across fields including healthcare, financial services, engineering, education, and more…
Before parachuting back to Earth on April 17, 2020 and landing in the middle of a pandemic, Jessica Meir spent 205 days in space and was one of two women to participate in the historic first all-female spacewalk. When asked to describe what it was like stepping out into space, she told The Harvard Gazette…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of Virginia for 2022. This group of esteemed individuals are leading organizations across fields including healthcare, financial services, engineering, education, and more. Their efforts come in the wake of other Virginia women who came before them…
Samantha Power serves in the Biden-Harris Administration as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Sworn in on May 3, 2021, her role is to ensure that USAID strengthens its continual leadership in areas such as food security…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce our Outstanding Mothers of 2022. On this Mother’s Day, we are honored to highlight mothers across the country. As nearly one third of the workplace, working mothers play a crucial role in the success of the organizations they serve…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce our Outstanding Mothers of 2022. On this Mother’s Day, we are honored to highlight mothers across the country. As nearly one third of the workplace, working mothers play a crucial role in the success of the organizations they serve…
Being a queer Jewish political activist, Susan Sontag was no stranger to controversy. Her sharply defined opinions on the gay community, culture and media, human rights, leftist ideology, and photography – along with a penchant for traveling to and writing about areas of conflict – gained her notoriety and literary acclaim throughout her career…
Sandra Cisneros has parlayed her feelings of isolation and exclusion and her experience being caught between Mexican and Anglo-American cultures into a four-decades-long, award-winning writing career. She is best known for her coming-of-age novel…
