by danarubin | Jun 14, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Today is Flag Day — the day we commemorate the adoption of the Stars and the Stripes by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. It’s also a day to remember the woman’s rights speaker Anna Howard Shaw, who once found herself...
by danarubin | Jun 13, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She was a talented, passionate speaker who delivered her first anti-slavery lecture at age 16. She traveled with her brother and other abolitionists around the state of New York giving talks and gathering support for anti-slavery cause. She went on...
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...
