At age 7, Chevy Humphrey learned that life was not fair. “You’ve got two strikes against you before you even start,” her mother sat her down and told her. “You’re Black and you’re a girl. So, perform at 200% always so that you can have 100% in your back pocket.” It was a lesson Chevy…
Growing up as a passionately competitive athlete in a time when organized sports for girls were almost non-existent taught Kay Koplovitz that she could go up against the boys—and win. That lesson served her well when she launched USA Network in 1977, the first television network led by a woman. But innovating came naturally to…
If Micaela Niven Bulich’s rise to the top can teach us anything, it’s that you can sometimes take a leap of faith and trust yourself to grow wings. Faced with the challenge of balancing a fast-moving career with a deep commitment to family and home, Micaela and her husband made some creative choices that took…
Called “one of the leading architects of her generation,” Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang—the architecture and urban design practice she founded and leads—have been selected by Ann M. Drake to design the campus of the Women’s Leadership Center at Williams Bay that will soon rise on a beautiful nine-acre site overlooking Geneva Lake in Wisconsin….