It is the first of many.
Suzanne Lerner, co-founder of Michael Stars, was awarded the first-ever Wear The Shirt Award at Take The Lead’s 2022 Power Up Concert & Conference, the Big RE: Rethink, Rewire and Recreate held recently virtually and in person in Phoenix, AZ.
Read More“Marina Tore the Damn House Down”
— Felicia Davis , Leadership Brand Strategist Founder of BlackWomanElevate
NEW YORK, NY, USA, September 3, 2022
EINPresswire.com — MARINA’S BOMBASTIC PERFORMANCE to be REBROADCAST on her YouTube channel premiering on September 1, 2022.
Read MoreThere is a fire that erupts when women REmember who they are AND know that it’s their time to step up and fully own their authority to lead.
Yes, ’m talking about you because you are that woman!
You are the woman that The Big RE Conference was created for because we know that on the other side of spending two days immersed in the power-packed agenda we have in store for you, you are going to leave knowing what it takes to…
The irony is that her vision literally stopped her from pursuing her dream career.
But it is her lifetime as a visionary that enables entrepreneurs and leaders to never stop pursuing their dreams.
Read MoreAs the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to heighten a world humanitarian crisis for the more than 10 million people who have fled their homes and the thousands who have been killed, a barrage of heartbreaking images and stories comes from the bunkers, battered fields and destroyed landscape of multiple cities.
What is also emerging is a distinct story of Ukrainian women who are showing the world their courage, tenacity and strength of leadership in adversity. They are demonstrating their leadership as soldiers, activists, diplomats, politicians, caretakers, mothers, daughters, volunteers and advocates for their country.
Read MoreYou have likely heard the adage that a picture is worth 1,000 words. In the case of Annie Leibovitz, iconic photographer for more than 50 years, her pictures are priceless.
The legendary creative force and winner of the International Center of Photography Lifetime Achievement Award and the Centenary Medal of Royal Photographic Society, Leibovitz humbly graced the Chicago Humanities Festival stage recently to talk about how women are seen—and not seen authentically—and ultimately not known.
Read More“What we don’t see, what we don’t hear, we cannot humanize,” says Nakisha M. Lewis, the new president and CEO of Breakthrough, a global nonprofit that uses the power of media, technology and popular culture to transform systems around gender, race, sexuality and immigrant rights.
Read MoreCall someone a genius and it’s a lofty compliment. But Sarah Ruhl, prolific playwright, poet and author, is officially a genius, as a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award, as well as two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
The author of Smile: The Story of A Face, was on stage at the Chicago Humanities Festival recently, speaking with her friend and colleague, Jessica Thebus, artist and Director of the Northwestern University MFA Program.
They discussed the gendered agency and ownership of your own body as a woman, as a human, and as someone who loses control of its ability to move and to respond as intended in the workplace and in the world.
Read More“We are determined to take this opportunity, to take the losses and turn them into gains,” says Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead in the opening introductions of the Women’s Equality Day Concert featuring internationally renowned composer and pianist Marina Arsenijevic.
Read MoreLeading the recent virtual discussion, “Take The Lead Presents: Equity for Women in Journalism,” Charreah Jackson and four veteran award-winning broadcast journalists plus Mira Lowe, president of Journalism & Women Symposium, tackle the shifting nature of journalism, opportunities for women, ongoing challenges of discrimination and the urgency to fight for fair gender identity and racial equality and representation in media newsrooms.
Read MoreHers is a rhapshody in power.
Award-winning concert pianist and composer Marina Arsenijevic has spent a lifetime creating music and performances around the globe that offer healing and respite in times of conflict and recovery.
Read MoreThe Tokyo 2020 Olympics kicking off this month are notable not just for what is missing—the crowds in the stands, many athletes who tested positive for COVID and Sha’Carri Richardson due to a positive marijuana test—but what gains have been achieved for competitors identifying as female.
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