*This post of mine is also published on Forbes.* Laura Thompson always knew she possessed the drive that meant she was destined for great things. During her sophomore year at Brown University, after Thompson’s mother unexpectedly passed away, she told her college that despite her personal tragedy, she would work hard to become one of their brightest future […]
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*This post of mine is also published on Forbes.* “Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur,” Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, the New York Times best-selling author, advocate, and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says. “But women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them,
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*This post of mine is also published on Forbes.* Feminists came out in full-force for the annual Women Media Center Awards (WMC) held in New York City’s Capitale, and my dream of attending this event finally came true. The WMC was founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem with the aim of making
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So much of my writing focuses on elevating the voices of women and girls, so it was a wonderful surprise to be on the other side of the interview and be featured on SheRights. I spoke with the site’s founder, Maureen Shaw, about Bangladesh, microfinance and the US election. Check out the full interview here.
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*This post of mine is also published on Women At Forbes.* My day usually starts at 8am, but that’s because I’m hitting snooze from 7:30am. As soon as my husband and daughter are out of the house, I go straight to the study, get in front my my laptop, and get to my emails. So
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*This post of mine is published on Forbes Woman.* Sexism in Hollywood is no secret, and things have gotten so bad that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) urged federal and state civil rights agencies to probe “the systemic failure to hire women directors at all levels of the film and television industry.” Just last
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Many of my readers do not know this, but when I was 17 years old, I went to a writer’s camp at the University of Virginia (UVA), where I ended up going to college the following year. However, it was at the Young Writer’s Workshop that I first discovered my writer’s soul. Over the weekend,
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*This post of mine is also published on The New York Times/ Women in the World.* If you want to hear Yasmine Al-Massri — who plays identical twin Muslim FBI agents Nimah and Raina Amin in hit series Quantico — reduced to laughter, ask her about the dialect coach she shared with the show’s Indian-born megastar, Priyanka
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This week on To The Contrary we talked about how UN Women can go about achieving their ambitious goals when funding them is something that is just suggested to member states. We spoke about how the trend of older women working longer is increasing, but the issue that really haunted me after the show was
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*This post of mine is also published in The Huffington Post & The Daily Ittefaq.* The fact that women have a harder time cultivating a career and voice in the field of comedy is no secret. Experts point out that despite the major success of some American women, such as Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Chelsea Handler, and most
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