“To me, creativity is the ability to connect, in often unexpected ways, observations or experiences or skills from completely different realms,” Ingrid Daubechies on Green Connections Radio The next time you send a photo to someone from your smartphone, and it asks you for which size to send, you’ll think about that decision differently after… Continue reading “Genius” Scientist Shares Her Secrets for New Ideas – Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University
As we commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, here is a glimpse into an untold part of the story: a woman journalist who supported the cause by keeping the movement in the headlines: Miriam Michelson, She also happens to be Green Connections Radio host Joan Michelson’s great-great… Continue reading 100 Years of Women Voting – Lori Harrison-Kahan, Author “The Superwoman” on Journalist Miriam Michelson
Taking Back POWER Everywhere June 29, 2019 at 8:15pm Hilton McLean, Tysons Corner, Virginia Register today Telling Our Story Stage Sponsored by Bards Alley “Telling Our Stories: Women in History” Panel of Authors Moderator: Joan Michelson, host of Green Connections Radio podcast, Forbes contributor, women’s advocate and great-great niece of suffrage reporter and activist Miriam… Continue reading “Telling Our Story” – Join Joan Michelson at the Women’s Summit – 100 Years of Women Voting
Come Celebrate 100 Years of Women Voting and How It Opened the Gates for Women’s Economic, Political and Social Power When: June 24, 2019 @ 7:00 pm Where: The Newseum, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Theater 555 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20001 Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Panel Discussion Special Program… Continue reading Celebrating 100 Year of Women Voting!
When you send a photo from your smartphone, it asks you to choose a size of photo to send. Which size should you choose and why? Each smaller size means the image is more compressed, so each size is a trade-off between bandwidth and detail. The smaller you go, the less bandwidth you use, yet you… Continue reading 8 Tips For Generating Creative Ideas From The Mind Of A ‘Genius’ Woman Scientist
Christi Tezak earned her college degree in Russian and became fluent in both the language and the culture. But soon after her graduation, the Cold War ended and there wasn’t a lot of use for her newly-minted degree. So she took a complete turn, and threw herself into learning about energy policy, she told me… Continue reading When You Want To Change Careers – 7 Tips From Women Who Have Done It
“(T)here’s an enormous opportunity to talk about sustainability and environmentalism in a way that captures the imagination of an everyday consumer or an everyday fashion lover and find a way to make it exciting and interesting and accessible.“ Laura Jones Celebrity stylist Laura Jones found herself overwhelmed when she realized the field she had dedicated her… Continue reading ‘Dress Your Values’ – Celebrity Stylist Laura Jones on Sustainable Fashion
“It’s really important that we think about cooling the areas where people are living, working and playing, and parks do that,” Diane Regas Whether you hang out in your local park with your kids or dogs enjoy reading on a park bench, or hiking in a national park this spring, you probably didn’t realize the… Continue reading How Parks Mitigate Climate Change – Diane Regas, Trust for Public Land
“We recognize that women add fundamentally different and unique and a very powerful contribution to creating new ideas, new products, new services.” Alfia Ilicheva on Electric Ladies podcast If you think only the “ah-ha” ideas become successful businesses (or nonprofits), then Alfia Ilicheva and Maria Potorocyzn want to talk to you. They believe it’s a… Continue reading Women’s Talent in Innovation – Alfia Ilicheva & Maria Potoroczyn
“There is some sense that women lead differently than men, but it’s hard to parse out if it’s because of gender differences or because women have historically been in the non-dominant group and men have been in the dominant group.” Laura Liswood Cultural dynamics drive the ability to innovate, hirings and promotions, whether it invests… Continue reading Why Women Are Natural Innovators – Laura Liswood, Council of Women World Leaders
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