Eight Women On the Move

Everyone knows the women in the news, i.e. First Lady Michelle Obama, Mogul Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer Lady Gaga, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. But there are other women who are on the move and making a contribution. Celebrate Women's History Month, take a moment and meet them here at the Emerald Quill.

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

As CEO of Green for All, a national organization aimed at decreasing poverty through the development of green energy jobs, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, 33, successfully lobbied to include in the much-lauded clean energy bill special provisions ensuring that low-income communities have access to jobs created by the proposed legislation.

Irene Rosenfeld
Chief Executive-Kraft Foods
Ranked #10 on Forbes 2011 list
of the 10 Most Powerful Women.

Lynn Nottage

Whether celebrating a turn-of-the-century seamstress in “Intimate Apparel”, a riches-to-rags career woman in “Fabulation” or a middle-class family on a quest to find their roots in “Mud, River, Stone”, Brooklyn-bred playwright Lynn Nottage, 45, puts Black women onstage and shows their fullness and complexity. She won the Pulitzer Prize for drama last April for “Ruined”, becoming the second Black woman to receive the award.



Kamala Harris

Oprah Winfrey called San Francisco district attorney “the female Barack Obama.” California’s first female African-American district attorney has solidified her superstar status by raising San Francisco’s felony conviction rate to 67 percent, the highest in a decade. She became the state’s attorney general.

Indra NooyiChairman and CEO-PepsiCo
Ranked #4 in Forbes 2011 list
of the 100 most powerful
women.

Congresswoman Barbara Lee

As chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congresswoman Lee is deeply committed to ending the spread of AIDS in the Black community. She has also successfully battled to eliminate funding for “abstinence-only” sex education and strongly supports condoms in prisons.

Kathie-Ann Joseph, M.D.

Harvard and Columbia graduate Dr. Kathie-Ann Joseph spearheaded an initiative with a life sciences research company to study Black women’s tumors and genes. She also plays a key role in setting diversity standards for cancer trials and research through the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project.

Ursula M. Burns

With less than 16 percent of Fortune 500 corporate officer positions held by women, according to Catalyst research, Burns, who is the CEO and Director of the Xerox Corporation, has shattered the idea that the only way to reach the highest office in the C-suite is through privilege and pedigree.

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