by danarubin | Dec 10, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ A sculpture installation opens today in New York City to honor the intrepid globe-trotting journalist and activist Nellie Bly. Created by artist Amanda Matthews, the multi-part sculpture sits on the northern tip of Roosevelt Island, not far from the...
by danarubin | Oct 27, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Jane Goodall is a world-renowned primatologist. She’s spent the better part of six decades studying and protecting one species, the chimpanzee. Now she’s turned her attention to another: the homo sapien. Her new book, The Book of Hope: A...
by danarubin | Oct 25, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ A new PBS documentary, “Becoming Helen Keller,” retells the famous story of Helen Keller. But instead of focusing on her legendary childhood, the lens widens to appreciate Keller’s passionate advocacy and activism. Though she lived...
by danarubin | Oct 12, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Today’s Google Doodle honors Helena Modjeska (born Modrzejewska), one of America’s greatest Shakespearean actresses — and a woman who used her public voice to support women. Polish-born, she emigrated to the US, became a citizen, and...
by danarubin | Oct 11, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On April 19, 1935, a young Black woman stepped up to the podium at a women’s conference in Turkey. She spoke about her own experience coming from the Caribbean island of Jamaica, a British colony once dependent on a sugar and slave-based...
by danarubin | Oct 7, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Fiona Hill was preparing for the most high-stake assignment of her life. On November 21, 2019, responding to a subpoena, the British-American foreign affairs specialist was called as a witness before a US House committee as part of the impeachment...
