Even if you’re not in New York, you’ll be motivated by our profiles of extraordinary women—stories that empower, uplift, and, by their example, may motivate you to embrace new challenges wherever life takes you.
Gigi Stetler is an unstoppable business woman. She created and is the CEO of the only female-owned RV dealership in the country. The business has been thriving for 30 years despite many roadblocks associated with working in a male-dominated industry. And Stetler has written a couple books – one about
R&B and Billboard Top 100 Dance Club recording artist CeCe Peniston, best known for her number one 1991 classic “Finally,” opens the 17th annual Downtown Urban Arts Festival with a one-night only concert event on Thursday, April 11 at 9:30 p.m. (doors open at 9 p.m.) at Joe’s Pub at
Jaime Black’s The REDress Project, now on display at D.C.’s National Museum of the Amercian Indian, aims to raise awareness of missing indigenous women, not only in her native Canada, but in the U.S. The exhibition consists of numerous red dresses, a fraction of the more than 400 that Jaime
Lisa Lawler’s nightmare is something no one should ever face. But many do, and the battle scars it leaves are brutal. In 2007 her husband told her he embezzled from the company he worked for. He first copped to $150,000, then upped it in increments to $500,000, and then to
Six out of ten wine consumers are women and women are willing to pay more for wine that they love. But only a small percentage of companies have women as executives. Angela Allison is on the path to changing all of that with her year old company WineSociety.Jumping on the
Anastasia McNeal’s creative path serendipitously began while a graduate student and working full-time for Estee Lauder Cosmetics. On a whim, she visited a second hand shop where a collection of mismatched, broken costume jewelry was offered for sale in a unappealing heap. Without understanding or hesitation, she purchased nearly the
We need heroes now more than ever. Ioanna Katsarou, artistic director of Eclipses Group Theater, has conceived and is directing a play certain to spark conversations. The upcoming world premiere of Hercules: In Search of a Hero will run until February 10 at the Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, as
Kimberly Schraf is a frequent and popular actress I Washington, D.C., having appeared in Death of a Salesman and The Laramie Project at Ford’s Theatre; Vicuña and the American Epilogue and Oh, God at Mosaic; Measure for Pleasure and The Gigli Concert at Woolly Mammoth; Angels in America and Show Boat at Signature; Skylight, Frozen and all four of The Apple Family
Gigi Stetler is an unstoppable business woman. She created and is the CEO of the only female-owned RV dealership in the country. The business has been thriving for 30 years despite many roadblocks associated with working in a male-dominated industry. And Stetler has written a couple books – one about surviving a vicious attack when a homeless vagrant stabbed her 21 times and left her for dead. Driven by her entrepreneurial spirit, last year, she
R&B and Billboard Top 100 Dance Club recording artist CeCe Peniston, best known for her number one 1991 classic “Finally,” opens the 17th annual Downtown Urban Arts Festival with a one-night only concert event on Thursday, April 11 at 9:30 p.m. (doors open at 9 p.m.) at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street. In 1991, Peniston’s hit single “Finally” hit the charts, and due to the song’s success, CeCe soon inked a
Jaime Black’s The REDress Project, now on display at D.C.’s National Museum of the Amercian Indian, aims to raise awareness of missing indigenous women, not only in her native Canada, but in the U.S. The exhibition consists of numerous red dresses, a fraction of the more than 400 that Jaime has collected, that symbolize the plight of these women whose voices have been silenced through violence, discrimination, and indifference. Jaime is an emerging, metis multidisciplinary
Lisa Lawler’s nightmare is something no one should ever face. But many do, and the battle scars it leaves are brutal. In 2007 her husband told her he embezzled from the company he worked for. He first copped to $150,000, then upped it in increments to $500,000, and then to $1 million, before attempting suicide on Christmas, when he finally confessed to $2.5 million. As if this horror were not enough, it came on the
Six out of ten wine consumers are women and women are willing to pay more for wine that they love. But only a small percentage of companies have women as executives. Angela Allison is on the path to changing all of that with her year old company WineSociety.Jumping on the growing market of canned wine (*Nielsen reported that canned wine sales were a $45 million business last year and surged 43 percent), Angela has built
Anastasia McNeal’s creative path serendipitously began while a graduate student and working full-time for Estee Lauder Cosmetics. On a whim, she visited a second hand shop where a collection of mismatched, broken costume jewelry was offered for sale in a unappealing heap. Without understanding or hesitation, she purchased nearly the entire lot. Anastasia grew up imagining and playing among the contents of her mother’s, and more clandestinely, her grandmother’s jewelry boxes. She regularly conceptualized, designed
We need heroes now more than ever. Ioanna Katsarou, artistic director of Eclipses Group Theater, has conceived and is directing a play certain to spark conversations. The upcoming world premiere of Hercules: In Search of a Hero will run until February 10 at the Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, as part of the @Abrons Series program. Ioanna is a founding member of Aktis Aeliou Theater, awarded Best Regional Theater in Greece by the Greek Critics
Kimberly Schraf is a frequent and popular actress I Washington, D.C., having appeared in Death of a Salesman and The Laramie Project at Ford’s Theatre; Vicuña and the American Epilogue and Oh, God at Mosaic; Measure for Pleasure and The Gigli Concert at Woolly Mammoth; Angels in America and Show Boat at Signature; Skylight, Frozen and all four of The Apple Family Plays at Studio; and Our Town and A Prayer for Owen Meany at Round House. In February she will be returning in The Heiress at Arena Stage, the venue where
