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Vanessa Rousso Paused Her Legal Career to Lay Down the Law at the Poker Table

In the professional poker playing world, there is a beautiful blonde strategist that has racked up more than $3.5 million over the course of her career. Online, she is known as Lady Maverick, and she’s been sponsored by PokerStars, one of the best online poker rooms in the business. At the tables, she is Vanessa Rousso, and she’s placed in the money seventeen times at the World Series of Poker…

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Twenty Years Ago, Vanessa Carlton’s Piano-Driven Hit Caught Our Ears and Never Let Go

The year was 2002. Jeans were low cut, phones were Nokia “bricks,” the United States was trying to heal post 9/11, and the song playing on every radio station was “A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carlton. Twenty years ago, the worldwide smash was released and with its opening piano sequence – with notes falling like a steady rain – music lovers everywhere were smitten…

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Henrietta Szold Dedicated Her Life to Teaching and Zionism

Henrietta Szold was an American Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. Hadassah was her greatest accomplishment, and under her influence it became the largest and most powerful Zionist group in the United States, fundraising and setting up hospitals, food banks, nursing schools, and social work programs…

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Gloria Jean Watkins’ Pen Name, bell hooks, was Lowercase, but Her Impact Was All-Caps

Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her deliberately lowercase pen name “bell hooks,” was a groundbreaking author and intersectional feminist who deeply explored the connections between gender, race, sexual identity, and class. She wrote an estimated 40 books, with her most widely known being “Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism”..,

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Top 50 Women CEOs of 2022

Women We Admire is pleased to announce the Top 50 Women CEOs of 2022. With women leading just 4.8% of the world’s largest businesses on the Global 500, it is more important than ever to highlight the career achievements of women who fill the role of CEO…

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From Big Tech Sexism to Internet Trolls, Ellen Pao Has Fought for Inclusion and Change

Ellen Pao, a tech investor and former CEO of the social media company Reddit, caught everyone’s attention in 2012 when she filed a gender discrimination suit against her employer at the time, the venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Silicon Valley was captivated by her accusations that her superiors didn’t promote her because of her gender and then retaliated when she complained…

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Olympic Gold-Medalist Sarah Hughes Set Out to ‘Skate Her Best.’ And She Did

No American woman has brought home the gold in women’s figure skating since Sarah Hughes won in dramatic fashion at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics when she was just 17 years old. “At the time, I thought Salt Lake probably would be my only Olympics, because so much of my life at that point was training, with the ultimate goal of making the Olympic team…

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Award-winning Journalist Norah O’Donnell Is Known for Investigative Reports and Intimate Interviews

Emmy Award-winning American journalist Norah O’Donnell has spent more than two decades covering news stories worldwide and conducting stimulating interviews. She is currently the anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” anchor of CBS News election specials (including primary, debate, and election nights), and a correspondent for “60 Minutes”…

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