Diane von Furstenberg
Entrepreneurial

Diane von Furstenberg

Furstenberg’s life is our favorite fairy tale. Once a princess (through marriage to a German prince, whom she later divorced), this mom of two began her ...

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Suraya Pakzad
Activism

Suraya Pakzad

Suraya Pakzad is one of Afghanistan’s most respected female activists. Since founding the Voices of Women Organization over a decade ago, the mother of ...

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Alice Waters
Green

Alice Waters

Alice Waters was green before the green movement existed. Opening her restaurant, Chez Panisse—a staple on the Who’s Who of organic ...

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Dilma Vana Rousseff
Politics

Dilma Vana Rousseff

Dilma grew up under a Brazilian military regime, which she staunchly opposed and resisted, even leading a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary “guerilla” ...

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Wendy Kopp
Education

Wendy Kopp

Teach For America impacts more than 500,000 low-income students each year by matching 8,200 corps members annually to two-year teaching commitments. This ...

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Marcia McNutt
Health/Science

Marcia McNutt

As a widowed mother of three young girls, Marcia McNutt was able to break down gender-role stereotypes and become one of the most accomplished American ...

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Mena Trott
Entrepreneurial

Mena Trott

If your kid can’t get off the Internet, there’s hope she’ll become a tech maven like Trott, co-founder of Six Apart and creator of blogging tools ...

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Lisa Jackson
Green

Lisa Jackson

Lisa Jackson broke racial barriers by becoming the first African American ever to serve as EPA Administrator. Over the last several years she has snagged a ...

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Elizabeth Spelke
Health/Science

Elizabeth Spelke

Much of what we understand about the infant mind can be credited to this Harvard psych professor. Director of the school’s Laboratory for ...

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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Health/Science

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

As an anthropologist and primatologist, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy has used her field knowledge to better understand and support modern mothers. Forced to slow ...

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