Mary Smith is President-Elect of the American Bar Association. She has held a number of positions in both the private and public sectors, including as chief executive of the Indian Health Service, a $6 billion agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services responsible for providing federal health services to over two million …
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Karen Leu is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Burlington Stores, Inc. We recently spoke with Karen about her journey from a reluctant law student to the helm of a Fortune 500 company, the importance of authenticity, and finding a balance between personal and professional ambitions. When we first met at the …
Let me tell you about a little girl who dreamed about sailing around the world. Now what if I tell you it’s true? ~ Jo Gooding in Maiden Tracy Edwards skippered the first all-female crew to sail around the world when she and her team raced Maiden in the 1989/1990 Whitbread Round the World Race. …
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Shannon Higginson is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of lululemon athletica inc. She joined lululemon in 2011 and was previously in-house counsel at TELUS, a telecommunications company, and an associate at Bull, Housser & Tupper in Vancouver. This interview has been edited for publication. You’ve been at lululemon for a …
Hayley Kim is an associate at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, where she is a critical member of the deal team and focuses on enhancing investment decision-making through rigorous statistical analysis and financial modeling. Since joining CD&R, Hayley has been a leading team member in a number of significant transactions for the firm that have contributed …
One hundred years ago, in the wake of the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote, a group of suffragists began to draft another amendment to the United States Constitution that would enshrine equal rights for women. Today, almost a century after it was first introduced in Congress, the Equal Rights …
Emmeline Liu and Ruth Gao are the General Counsel and Associate General Counsel, respectively, of Calvert Impact Capital, Inc., an impact investing nonprofit that delivers access to capital markets to over 100 borrowers operating in 107 countries around the world. Calvert Impact Capital has been a pioneer and leader in gender lens investing, which is …
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Over the last year and a half, reading has provided a much-needed escape from reality. Even when the pandemic kept us close to home, we were able to travel to California’s prime taco spots in the Wedding Date series, jam out on stage with Daisy Jones and the Six and solve a murder in Verity …
Joanne Caruso is the Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer of Jacobs. We recently spoke with Joanne about her career path and the varied roles she has held at Jacobs, including as the Executive Sponsor of PRISM, the company’s employee network group for LGBTQI+ employees and their allies. Q. You’ve had such a …
Amy Barasch is the Executive Director of Her Justice, a nonprofit that connects over 8,000 low-income women and children to private attorneys every year. Amy has devoted most of her career to the issue of intimate partner violence through her work at nonprofits, government agencies and law firms. Q. You’ve dedicated your career to assisting …