by danarubin | Jun 3, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 2016, she stepped up to the podium at the 170th commencement at City College of New York. She warmly congratulated the parents and family. She thanked the administration. She lavished praise on the graduates. Then she set off a...
by danarubin | Jun 1, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ After a painful week of grief, outrage and racial division in the US, we look for voices to express our anguish. No one could better fill that role than the extraordinary, unforgettable Nina Simone — the singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights...
by danarubin | May 28, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ As a girl in Michigan, she would go out after dark with her mother to watch the constellations, and she fell in love with the night sky. But her high school counselor told her the natural sciences weren’t appropriate for young women — she...
by danarubin | May 25, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She was an American aerospace engineer whose expertise was fluid dynamics. Yet one of the most important things Kalpana Chawla left us had nothing to do with liquids and gases. On her first space mission in 1997, she looked out the shuttle window...
by danarubin | May 23, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Today, May 23, is Deborah Sampson Day, honoring the remarkable exploits of a gender-twisting female Revolutionary War hero and trailblazing public speaker. On this day in 1782, disguised as a man, Sampson was mustered into the Fourth Massachusetts...
