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Book It: 13 Best Books By Women You Will Love To Read and Give This Year
Book It: 13 Best Books By Women You Will Love To Read and Give This Year

Treat yourself before the holidays or treat a close friend as a gift for the holidays with one or many of these new books from authors you have grown to revere and perhaps a few whose work is new to you.

Before the year ends, you will want to dive into this curated collection of the latest fiction, nonfiction, business, leadership and books that offer lessons in leadership, life, work and more. This sterling and diverse selection of essays, novels, memoirs, biographies and instructional guides span a range of interests and deliver the immense talents of writers we already know and those we want to know better.

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Women Career Success, Gender Parity, Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonLeadership Books, Workplace Culture, latina women, Leadership Tools, IntentioningComment
Thrive In Your Brilliance: Latina Leader, Author on How To Create Change
Thrive In Your Brilliance: Latina Leader, Author on How To Create Change

You may not have heard of the artichoke capital of the world—Castroville, California—but you definitely need to hear and know more about Denise Padín Collazo, a leader, advocate, director and author who coincidentally was born in Castroville.

Senior advisor for external affairs and director of institutional advancement at Faith In Action, (formerly PICO National Network), the nation’s largest faith-based, progressive organizing network, Collazo is an inspiring leadership expert and social justice advocate with the mission to encourage women of color to lead with vision and to thrive.

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Changing the Power Par..., Change Leadership, Changing the WorkplaceMichele Weldonlatina women, Social Justice, Leadership Tools, RepresentationComment
Power of Prioritizing: Latina CEO, Founder Advises, Inspires and Succeeds
Power of Prioritizing: Latina CEO, Founder Advises, Inspires and Succeeds

Melissa Rodriguez, CEO of Mel Rodriguez & Co. and also Social Media Relations, was born and raised in the “witch city where everyone goes for Halloween.” That’s Salem, Mass., of course, where the history includes powerful and magical women.

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Change Leadership, Career success, Ambition / Intention, Changing the Workplace, EntrepreneurMichele Weldonlatina women, Female CEO, Entrepreneurship, Women In Business, marketingComment
Is Awareness Enough? Economic, Political Growth 52 Years After Hispanic Heritage Launch
Is Awareness Enough? Economic, Political Growth 52 Years After Hispanic Heritage Launch

This must be about more than selling Frida Kahlo t-shirts once a year.

In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson initiated a week to honor the influence and legacies in the arts and culture of Americans with heritage origins in Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. President Ronald Reagan turned it into a month celebrated from September 15 through October 15 by law, inaugurating Hispanic Heritage Awareness Month.

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Change Leadership, Parity, Women Career Success, Changing the Power Par..., Changing the WorkplaceMichele Weldonlatina women, Hispanic Heritage Month, Women In Politics, Opportunity, Equality, female CEOComment