Jenny Rickard - President and CEO at Common App
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The latest episode is with Jenny Rickard, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Common App, a not-for-profit membership organization committed to the pursuit of access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. Each year, more than one million students, one-third of whom are first-generation, apply to college through Common App’s online application. Ms. Rickard was a pleasure to interview, it was fun conversation with lots of great details about her personal journey coupled with great insights and advice for our listeners. Ms. Rickard has shown a strong commitment to...
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Dr. Wendy Horton - Chief Executive Officer at UVA Health
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A new episode with , the Chief Executive Officer at . Dr. Horton was a pleasure to speak with, it was fun interview with lots of great details about her background and career along with insights, perspectives, and advice for the future.
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Dr. Prathibha Varkey - President Mayo Clinic Health System
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A super informative and interesting interview with , the President of the . Dr. Varkey leads over 17,000 employees serving 16 community hospitals and 50 multispecialty clinics across 39 communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Dr. Varkey is a Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.
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Dr. Jennifer Rexford - Provost of Princeton University
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Dr. Jennifer Rexford is the Provost, Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, and formerly the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at . She is an accomplished computer scientists whose research has focused on analysis of computer networks, and in particular network routing, performance measurement, and network management. She is an affiliated faculty member in electrical and computer engineering, operations research and financial engineering, applied and computational mathematics, gender and sexuality studies, Center for Information Technology...
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Gloria Steinem - Feminist Icon
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We are very excited to share this new episode with feminist icon Gloria Steinem! Ms. Steinem is a writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer. She has spent decades traveling in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples, and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice. She lives in New York City. It...
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Lakecia Gunter - Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Global Partner Solutions
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A really fun episode with Lakecia Gunter. Ms. Gunter serves as the Chief Technology Officer for the Global Partner Solutions Team at Microsoft Corporation. Prior to this role, she also held positions at Microsoft as Vice President and General Manager of the Device Partner Solution Sales Group and Vice President and General Manager of IoT Global and Strategic Engagement. Before joining Microsoft, Ms. Gunter served as Vice President of the Programmable Solutions Group and General Manager of Ecosystem Development and Operations at Intel Corporation. While at Intel, she served in several...
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Dr. Melina Kibbe - Dean of UVA Medicine, Vascular Surgery Clinician & Researcher
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Dr. Melina Kibbe, the Dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine, is our latest guest for the podcast. She is an active, practicing vascular surgeon who has maintained an independently funded basic science/translational research laboratory since 2003. Her clinical practice is focused on the care of patients with vascular disease. As a surgeon-scientist, she has been performing independent research and mentoring trainees in the conduct of hypothesis-driven research. To date, she has mentored 41 postdoctoral fellows, 9 graduate students, 13 medical students, and 21 undergraduate...
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Muffet McGraw - Hall of Fame Women's Basketball Coach
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The latest interview is with Muffet McGraw, a Hall of Famer and one of the winningest coaches in college basketball history. Mrs. McGraw coached women's basketball for 38 seasons, with 33 of them at the University of Notre Dame. She is a two-time national champion head coach that amassed 936 career victories with a win percentage of 76 percent. Her teams made nine trips to the Final Four and she collected consensus National Coach of the Year honors three times throughout her legendary career. McGraw’s Irish squads accumulated 14 regular-season conference titles, including...
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Kathrine Switzer - First Woman To Officially Run The Boston Marathon
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Happy Boston Marathon day! We are excited to share our interview with Kathrine Switzer, an iconic athlete, author, Emmy-award winning broadcaster and advocate for sports and social causes, Ms. Switzer was the first woman to officially register and run the Boston Marathon in 1967. She was attacked in the race by an angry official who tried to rip off her bib number (#261) and throw her out of the race because she was a woman. She finished the 26.2 mile distance anyway and went on win the 1974 New York City Marathon and to champion women in the sport globally, most notably leading the drive to...
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Gwen Young - CEO, Women Business Collaborative
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In today's episode, we are interviewing Gwen Young, the CEO of Women Business Collaborative (WBC). Ms. Young is also a Visiting Scholar at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. She has had an amazing career, formerly serving as the Director of the Global Women's Leadership Initiative at the Wilson Center. Prior to that she worked at some amazing international organizations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Medecins Sans Frontieres, the International Rescue Committee, and the Harvard Institute for International...
info_outlineIn today's episode, we are interviewing Gwen Young, the CEO of Women Business Collaborative (WBC). Ms. Young is also a Visiting Scholar at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. She has had an amazing career, formerly serving as the Director of the Global Women's Leadership Initiative at the Wilson Center. Prior to that she worked at some amazing international organizations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Medecins Sans Frontieres, the International Rescue Committee, and the Harvard Institute for International Development. She is our first CEO guest and we were very excited to learn about her work at WBC and about her career. Please take a few minutes to listen to this episode, her stories and her words of wisdom make this a can't miss episode!