At age 13, Zandra A. Cunningham began taking courses at University at Buffalo as part of the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program. She’s the youngest person the program has ever accepted, but Zandra fit right in: after all, she’d already been running her own business for
What does your day-to-day job entail? As the CEO of Laurel & Wolf, my days are full of meetings with L&W teams to discuss strategy, growth and goals, hiring initiatives, and more. Tactically, I spend a lot of my time working with our marketing and product teams. It is also my job to be
Mercedes, Bugatti, Bentley, Ferrari, Porsche are everyday vocabulary words for award-winning journalist and automotive reporter Jaclyn Trop. Buckle up and learn how this car aficionado is inspiring girls around the world one drive at a time. Q: What is your typical day-to-day job look like? A:
Meet Cassie Slane. Ricky: Tell us about yourself. Cassie: I started off in accounting and then moved into business journalism at Bloomberg News in New York covering the stock market. Afterwards, I relocated to Philadelphia where I covered the technology market at Fox and QVC. This immersed me
In today’s society, the media has become a prevalent influence on young girls. To Karen Kilpatrick, it became important for her to accurately portray the diversity of the world through her children’s books. Initially, Karen started writing stories for her children that taught important
Meet Lisa Tsou, the Founder of The Winning Pitch! The Winning Pitch is a company that counsels entrepreneurs with startup businesses and helps them take their companies to the next level. The Winning Pitch has been in the making since Ms. Tsou graduated from law school at Columbia University.
It’s an exciting time in the healthcare technology startup industry. Meet Sarah Doherty, the co-founder and CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of TeleHealthRobotics, a 2010 alum of the University of Pennsylvania. What is your job title and what do you do day-to-day in your job? I am the
Sheera Goren is not your average foodie. She’s a lawyer passionate about social impact and is the founder and CEO of Dinating, a nonprofit that aims to give people the opportunity to eat well and do good at the same time. However, Sheera’s roots in community outreach and food began at a
A lot of people want to have fun in their jobs, but many think that work and play are two things that should be divorced from one another. That’s not true according to Jenny Gottstein. In fact, she believes that play is actually underutilized not only in the workplace, but in everything. Jenny
At the age of fifteen, natural foods chef Amy Ruth Finegold started researching how the right combination of healthy foods could promote good digestion. She began watching the Food Network to learn how to cook and experimenting with new dishes on her own. The birth of her son Jake triggered her
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