by danarubin | Mar 13, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ When you think of the greatest speakers in American history, who comes to mind? Probably Winston Churchill, MLK, JFK, maybe Ronald Reagan — and justifiably so. They were all remarkable orators whose powerful language and delivery expressed gravity...
by danarubin | Mar 13, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ True to her nickname, “The Agitator,” Nora O’Reilly stirred things up when she spoke in public — in support of working-class women, women’s suffrage, and trade unionism. Using colorful and often incendiary language, she delivered speeches in meeting...
by danarubin | Mar 11, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ In the spring of 1883, Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of the mighty Trinity Church in Manhattan and a Columbia University trustee, launched a series of weekly lectures to share his vision of “Christian womanhood.” Outraged by his narrow, restrictive...
by danarubin | Mar 10, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Born in China, raised in Brooklyn, Bette Bao Lord has explored the political currents of Chinese communism and American democracy in her fiction and non-fiction. Author of the bestselling novel Spring Moon and other books, she looks at the U.S....
by danarubin | Mar 9, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ When she’s not dodging photographers, Amal Clooney is a respected human rights attorney. On March 9, 2017 — with her client, human rights activist Nadia Murad by her side — Clooney spoke at a United Nations event about the crimes of ISIS. Six months...
