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  • Flying solo, traveling by yourself

    Teresa Rodriguez Williamson is a jet-setter extraordinaire. She discovered that traveling can be the perfect antidote for anything ailing the soul.

  • A life of spiritual and artistic trailblazing and innovations

    Christina Bernal has lived a life more fascinating than fiction. When she was 14, she became the youngest dancer to join the San Francisco Ballet Company. Then at 18, she entered the Society of the Sacred Heart to live a contemplative life as a nun. She thought she would never dance again but she was …

  • Women in sports

    Anne Warner Cribbs is a tour de force for all things Olympic. As a 14-year-old swimmer, she won gold in the 1959 Pan American Games. The next year as the American record-holder, Anne swam to fifth in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome in the 200-meter breaststroke and another gold as the breaststroker on the USA 4x100 medley relay team.

  • Jane Frommer on Nano-technology

    Jane Frommer is a scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center where she runs a lab involved in research in the basic sciences that form the underpinnings of nanotechnology. Since getting her Ph.D. from Caltech's chemistry department in organometallic chemistry, her research has focused primarily on organic materials in the solid state with the approach …

  • Bo Caldwell on “Creative Writing”

    Bo Caldwell was born in Oklahoma City in 1955. She grew up in Los Angeles and attended Stanford University, where she later held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing and a Jones Lectureship in Creative Writing. She has received a fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Artist Fellowship from …

  • Mari Baker on “Consumer Genetics Testing”

    Ms. Baker was most recently an executive-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which she joined in 2006. Prior to that, she was president of BabyCenter, LLC, a Johnson & Johnson company. Under her leadership, BabyCenter became the world's leading Web site for new and expectant parents, winning numerous online health awards and expanding significantly …

  • Creating a Culture of Courage

    Cindy Solomon is an internationally recognized speaker, writer, executive coach and consultant and is sought after by companies large and small for her humorous, provocative and compelling insights on courage.

  • Behind the scenes at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

    Janet Abrams is Director of the Public Management Program at Stanford Business School. She earned her MBA there in 1987. In her role with the Public Management Program, she administers an academic certificate offering and an array of extracurricular activities for students interested in government and the nonprofit sector and how industry deals with complex …