Featured in this month’s Empowering Leaders Video Series is Corinna Ladd, Regional President of Northern Indiana for PNC Bank. Mentorship and support from friends and family have helped her to achieve great success. Corinna is devoted to nurturing important relationships in her life and considers relationships to be at the core of who she is. … Read More
Patti Hays CEO, AWS Foundation November 1920 is remembered for the election when women, white women, across the United States were allowed to vote for the first time. However, it was not until the civil rights laws of 1965 when Black women were freed from Jim Crow laws and were ensured that same right. The vote … Read More
Marilyn Moran-Townsend CEO, CVC Communications “I’m no lady; I’m a Member of Congress.” These words were spoken in 1916 by Jeannette Rankin of Montana, the first woman elected to Congress. She advocated for the creation of a Committee on Women’s Suffrage and was appointed to it once the committee was formed. When the special committee reported out a constitutional … Read More
August is an important month for women’s rights. On August 26th, we celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment, and August 6th was the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Suffragists fought for over 70 years to add the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave many women in the United States … Read More