Rachel Feldman’s superpower is storytelling. She discovered it as a little girl growing up in a household marred by conflict and emotional pain that she could block out by living in her imagination. She developed it as a child actor who made up characters and voices while appearing in hundreds of TV commercials and cartoons….
If Carol Ross Barney had a coat of arms, it might be emblazoned with Chicago’s skyline and the motto, “Good spaces make good people.” As the so-called People’s Architect of the Windy City, Carol has dedicated her career to “the dignity of design,” as she puts it — that is, to creating urban spaces that…
After high school, when most of Anne Sempowski Ward’s friends were headed to the University of Michigan a few miles down the road for college, Anne took herself in a different direction—toward Duke University in North Carolina and its school of Engineering. Not that she knew exactly how to get there. The oldest child in…
Since babyhood, Tena Clark had a habit of tapping out rhythms with whatever was at hand — pencils, her fingers, eating utensils, you name it. “Drumming felt like music, and the music felt like it was coming straight out of me,” she wrote in her autobiography Southern Discomfort. But good Southern girls growing up in…
Studio Gang, the international architecture and urban design firm led by Jeanne Gang, and Lincoln Road Enterprises, a philanthropic organization focused on elevating women’s leadership led by Ann Drake, have unveiled the design for the Women’s Leadership Center at Williams Bay. Overlooking Geneva Lake, the 24,000 square foot center will provide professional women’s groups with a unique retreat space…
Accelerate Action is the theme of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2025. Around the world, women and their supporters are being asked to get involved in ways that will advance gender equality while challenging barriers to progress. It’s a call to roll up sleeves and get in the mix — because women touch every…