See How She Runs: Emerge
America President On Urgent Need For Women To Run For Office
As a young girl of 7, A’shanti Gholar discovered C-SPAN and was hooked on watching political discussions. Now president of Emerge America, Gholar says, “I didn’t see a lot of people who look like me—women, Black or Brown people.” Her parents were not politically minded she says, though they voted. But she got encouragement at school. “I took an 11th grade government class and the teacher brought in the candidates to come speak to the class.” Just 17, Gholar says she asked both candidates about their stance on minimum wage. The candidate said he had voted for minimum wage, but Gholar saw the voting record and he had not. So she called him out. He said she was mistaken. The next day her teacher said the Congressman admitted he had lied to the student. It showed her the power she had in speaking the truth.
The Power to Motivate Through Values-Driven Leadership By Carla Shade
As a healthcare leader, my central goals include increasing inclusion and fighting for women. My leadership style is to bring color and diversity into the workplace to build amazing teams of people who each bring their own experiences, insights and perspectives to the table and represent the communities we serve.
From Lucy to Leadership Part
2: Our Origins’ Central Question
Last weekend, I went to see the movie I think should win Academy Awards in every category: Ava DuVernay’s rendition of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Afterwriting last week about the discovery of the 3.2 million year old
hominid fossil Lucy in Hadar, Ethiopia 50 years ago by paleoanthropologist and founder of the Institute of Human Origins Donald Johanson, I wanted to explore further the question of why we humans are the way we are. -
For the 2/19 10th Anniversary Kickoff Conversation on Women, Power, and Leadership with Gloria Steinem, Gloria Feldt, and Jamia Wilson!
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