By Chrissi McCarthy, Founder of Constructing Equality (Liverpool, UK)
In the summer of 2005 I was asked to go to Uganda with an English charity to help build a school in the small village of Keyo in the North of the country, just outside of Gulu. It was an area struggling to progress itself, having been [...]
‘Intrepid Women Series’ Category
November 19th, 2010, 6:00 am
Intrepid Woman: Building the Future in Uganda
October 29th, 2010, 6:00 am
Calling All Intrepid Women!
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
The Glass Hammer is looking for more stories on Intrepid Women – professional women who have a flair for adventure, a love of the unknown, and the courage to step out of their comfort zone. Sound like you, or someone you know?
Previous Intrepid Women have included a lawyer / [...]
October 7th, 2010, 6:00 am
Next Generation Sustainability: WNSF’S Annual Summit
em>By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
On Tuesday, the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future held its 7th annual summit, entitled “Sustainability, We Get it… Now What?”
Ann Goodman, Ph.D., Executive Director of WNSF, said, “By now the term sustainability has entered the vernacular. Now that everybody gets sustainability, how can we use it to drive [...]
March 26th, 2010, 6:00 am
Intrepid Woman: Betty Ross, Financial Advisor, Sapient Financial Group
By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)
After speaking to Betty Ross, you realize the power that comes with being honest and straightforward and that sometimes, a frank approach is the best approach. So let’s begin: What are the chances that a young black girl growing up in the segregated South during some of the region’s most tumultuous [...]
November 20th, 2009, 6:00 am
Thriving with Breast Cancer
By Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
“Thank god for hot flashes,” said Kim Michel, owner of Michel Financial Services firm in Los Angeles, “They very likely saved my life.”
Last year, just as Michel turned fifty, she began to be troubled by those telltale signs of menopause, and went to consult with a doctor about hormone replacement [...]
February 27th, 2009, 1:00 pm
Intrepid Women: Sense of Safety in My Own Skin
by Kelley Vollmer (New York City)
Since moving to Manhattan, self defense had been something I’d always meant to learn, but I kept finding excuses as to why I couldn’t take a class: it didn’t fit into my schedule; I didn’t know which course to take; or it was just too expensive. I told [...]
January 16th, 2009, 6:00 am
Intrepid Women: The White Continent (a/k/a Bonding with Penguins)
by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
When I told friends and family that I was planning to go to Antarctica (one of the”to do’s” on my “400 before 40” list), the overwhelming response was: “why would you want to do that?” My response was to wonder how someone could NOT want to go. The [...]
September 26th, 2008, 1:00 pm
Intrepid Women: Ice Dreams
by Kate St. Vincent Vogl (New York City)
Walking pneumonia would not keep Christin Walth from attending her business meeting. She was Microsoft’s representative to the Bluetooth team, and she could and would pull her weight for that lineup of seven industry leaders now that she wasn’t contagious. The conference had started two days before, and [...]
September 19th, 2008, 1:00 pm
Intrepid Women: My Life on the Street, Part II
by Paige Churchman (New York City)
The next morning, Genro and Paco marveled that we hadn’t been chased out, and we set off for breakfast at the St. Francis Mission, more than 50 blocks north. Outside a church on some midtown street, we joined a long line, spreading ourselves out among the real homeless people as [...]
September 19th, 2008, 6:00 am
Intrepid Women: My Life on the Street, Part I
by Paige Churchman (New York City)
Labor Day weekend approached, and all week I’d answered what-are-you-doing-this-weekend with “oh, sticking around.” True, but… For the next four days and three nights, I would be living like, and with, the homeless. I had signed up for a Street Retreat run by the Zen Peacemakers. [...]
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