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Surekha Waldia: ELNA– A New Model For Learning
…such work that would help change the lives of the people I worked with. Secondly, I have always believed education should empower the learner by developing critical awareness so that…
Ep.22: Horse Business
…branch out… CHELSEA: I really started to get an itch to dive more into education SUE: She turned to her clients for startup funds CHELSEA: I have a strong clientele…
Email Exchange: An Indian Woman on a Culture of Abuse
…email exchange with Payal Gandhi Hoon, coach and founder of Tamarainlp, a training company located in Gurgaon, a suburb of New Dehli. The Story Exchange (TSE): What was your reaction…
Literacy as a Solution to Educational Inequality
Education can be a great equalizer or a great divider. The same system that can enable less advantaged children to move up the economic ladder in adulthood, far too often,…
Time’s 100 Most Influential 2013: Afghani Entrepreneur Roya Mahboob
Roya Mahboob rises above death threats, fighting for women’s empowerment and education with computers, access to the Internet and social media. Roya Mahboob, founder of Afghan Citadel Software Co. When…
She Turned Her Creative Side Project Into A Six-Figure Business
…to stay home with her young children, her husband also left his job in education and joined the family business. Today the Noblesville, Indiana-based entrepreneur is proud to have survived…
Her Beauty Brand Is Committed to Ending Period Poverty
…health management and sexual and reproductive health and education rights, that leverages sanitary pads and health education as a combined intervention for women and girls’ development. As the organization has…
Why This Nonprofit Cares About Periods. And How Meghan Markle Might Help
…commitment to Days for Girls. Critical to the organization’s work is education to remove the shame, stigma and silence around menstruation. In places like Nepal, girls are told “you’ll bring…
Growing Up Comfortable with Money
…Thakor (who is now in her 40s) told us that her education in finance started early in life, when her father explained to her that “good personal finance habits don’t…
She’s Bringing STEM Curricula To Classrooms Across America
When Eleanor Smalley was working as an education superintendent she noticed that wealthy school districts had access to effective learning materials, while lower-income districts did not. Thirty years ago, she…
Two Democratic Women Advance in Race for Georgia Governor, Lieutenant Governor
…and Riggs Amico have put education and building a strong modern economy at the center of their campaign messages. In her victory speech, Abrams promised to be Georgia’s “Public Education…
Gail Romero: Collective Changes– Global Mentoring Nonprofit For Women Entrepreneurs
…developing nations who can have the biggest impact on their families by providing better education, food and healthcare. How do you define success? We define success as the day we…
As A Black Dentist, She Says ‘You Can’t Help But Notice That Nobody Looks Like You’
…Education Association. Compared with opportunities for white male graduates to succeed in the dental field, “there’s a disparity with minorities and women furthering their careers,” Patterson says. Experts point to…
She Helps Entrepreneurs Create Digital Products Designed For Long Term Sales
Destini Copp had years of experience in corporate marketing and working in higher education before she decided to strike out on her own. She’d had the entrepreneurial bug for years…