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Core Values: Fitting lessons from a brand-new startup
One week after she opened Core Cycle Studios in Timonium, Heather Chilcot took a break from phone calls, planning sessions and studio tours to survey the scene around her. “You never really think you’re going to do something like this,” she admitted. “Something like this” is a bright and cheerful fitness studio on the […]
Numbers don’t lie: Investing in women-led firm
Sometimes numbers tell as good a story as words do. Michele Lippincott, first vice president of wealth management at UBS in Baltimore, can rattle off a few of those revealing digits. “Only 50 percent of the world’s women are gainfully employed, compared to 75 percent of men,” she said. Eighty percent of part-time workers worldwide […]
Cake, community service, cocktails
At just over 10 years old, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture is still a “baby” in a world of Smithsonians, the Met and other collections, said Helen Yuen, the museum’s marketing director. That’s why it was so essential for the museum to mark the occasion of its 10th […]
What’s In Your Purse?
Phoebe Stein, Executive Director Maryland Humanities Dear dreamy-eyed readers who lose themselves in a book: Take note of Phoebe Stein’s career. “I was a big reader as a kid. I loved books and escaping into books,” the executive director of Maryland Humanities said. As a student at the University of Michigan, Stein attended a lecture […]
Heidi Klotzman: 5 Women Who Changed My Life
Heidi L. Klotzman, Founder & CEO, HeidnSeek Entertainment LLC 2016 Leading Woman Recipient MOM: Helene Klotzman-Miller My mom, Helene Klotzman-Miller is the consistency and core of my life. She is always there for me. From bringing me to life, to nurturing me when I was little, to helping me get well when I was sick, to taking […]
Scholarship winner committed to improving global health
Ashley U. Ezema Johns Hopkins University It was during a trip to Nigeria in 2007 that Ashley U. Ezema, a senior at Johns Hopkins University, first decided that she wanted to be a doctor. Ezema’s parents were born and raised in Nigeria, but she grew up in Ringoes, New Jersey. This trip to their […]
Nation’s 911 centers increasingly at risk of cyberattacks
As the nation’s 911 call centers move into a next generation of technology that will allow them to respond to texts or even pictures from cellphone users who need emergency services, security experts said this important first line of defense grows ever more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Ten years ago, most of the 911 calls […]
Five Women Who Changed My Life | Debra Hettleman
Debra Hettleman Executive Director Building Steps My mother Elayne Hettleman and our sisters My mom continues to be an unwavering guide in both my professional and personal life. She was a small business entrepreneur, political consultant and nonprofit executive. Like my mom, I am one of four daughters. Being surrounded by remarkable women, starting […]
Q&A Jamie Shopland
Name: Jamie Shopland Title: IT Project Manager/Political Volunteer Organization: Data Management Services, Inc., a contractor for the National Cancer Institute at Frederick Family Details: Seeking a labradoodle to love Favorite Book: “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Dream Vacation Destination: Tuscany, Italy Hobbi[...]
Baltimore’s ‘leading ladies’ talk work balance, sexism, confidence
Dr. Sonja Santelises recalled practicing for a high school debate with her father and that the particularly challenging argument she was trying to build wasn’t working. Overwhelmed, Santelises teared up a bit. How her father responded has stuck the Baltimore City Schools CEO since then. “He said, ‘You can cry with me, but as a […]
Untangling technology | How one beauty app highlights business trends
It started with uncooked rice. Jenna Reese wanted to make a rice rinse treatment for her hair, but skipped an important step to this centuries-old beauty routine: The grains have to be boiled the day before so they can ferment. With a towel on her hair and a pot of rice cooking on the stove, […]
Health and wellness: First breathe, then connect
There has never been a more fitting time for Shawna Q. Murray-Browne’s work. In a year of terror attacks, police brutality, gang violence and other soul-wrenching stories on our screens and in our cities, Murray-Browne has been quietly shoring up the reserves and resolve of women and girls of color. Two years ago, the 29-year-old […]
