Amy Tan’s novels, short stories, and essays intimately portray growing up as a first-generation American and explore what it is like to be both separate from and a part of Chinese culture. One of the most famous Chinese American writers today, her works showcase storytelling, memory, and the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and sisters.
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of Houston for 2023. While the area is known globally for its aerospace and energy sectors, countless other leading industries like life sciences, biotechnology, education, healthcare and manufacturing contribute to its robust and growing economy…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of Houston for 2023. While the area is known globally for its aerospace and energy sectors, countless other leading industries like life sciences, biotechnology, education, healthcare and manufacturing contribute to its robust and growing economy…
Before Venus and Serena Williams, there was Althea Gibson. The trailblazing tennis legend was the first Black player to compete at the U.S. National Championships in 1950, and the first Black player to compete at Wimbledon in 1951. Recognized as the world’s best women’s tennis player of the time…
Patricia “Pat” Schroeder is a retired American politician who represented Colorado in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997. Encouraged to run by her husband in the 1972 race for the predominantly Democratic but conservative congressional district, she did so without the support of the state Democratic Party or the Democratic National Committee…
Once called the “German Marie Curie” by Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics. Her joint research with the chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann led to the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has quickly established herself as a powerful author, storyteller, and advocate in literary and lecture circuits. She weaves themes of politics, culture, race, and gender throughout her novels, short stories, and plays, which have received both public and critical acclaim…
