Feb 3, 2021 | Women In Business
By Alexa Vickaryous Elizabeth Ruiz can recall hearing her mother Linda Garcia, 40, yelling with excitement when the stock markets shot up. At the time, Ruiz was mulling topics for her first Grow With Color workbook. The 25-year-old founded the Dallas-based children’s...
Jan 4, 2021 | Women In Business
By Melissa Jun Rowley When the outbreak of Covid-19 was first reported on December 31, 2019 in Wuhan, China scientist and chemical engineer, Mayra Guzman-Kaslow, president and CEO of the Puerto Rico-based and women-led pharmaceutical company, GK Pharmaceuticals, first...
Dec 30, 2020 | Women In Business
By Aparajita Saxena At the age of 24, Penn was kicked out of her home after she told her parents she was pregnant. Today, the self-made millionaire owns three very successful businesses. We hear and read stories of women bouncing back from rock-bottom every day....
Dec 28, 2020 | Women In Business
By Nabila Ahmed Anu Aiyengar, the only woman or person of color heading a global mergers shop on Wall Street, says the lines between industries are blurring. As JPMorgan Chase & Co. searches for its first major acquisition in more than a decade, Anu Aiyengar will...
Dec 23, 2020 | Leadership, Women In Business
By Anne Chow Did you know that businesses owned by minority women are the fastest growing segment of small businesses, and across all ethnicities, the number of women-owned firms is increasing faster than those owned by men? As president of National Business, AT&T...
Nov 2, 2020 | Women In Business
By Hanaa’ Tameez Last month, Prism’s senior reporter Tina Vasquez broke the story identifying a Georgia doctor, Mahendra Amin, who allegedly forcibly sterilized immigrant women in the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia. When The Intercept published...