John Gibson is the Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The MPAA is the public advocacy organization for the six major Hollywood studios including Sony, ...
Posted Friday, March 16th 2018 at 10:16AM
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April Reign is an attorney, public speaker, activist and Social Media Strategist who came to prominence in January 2015 as the creator of the hashtag, #OscarsSoWhite.
Check out our profile and the first of a two part interview here:
https://wome ...
Posted Tuesday, December 19th 2017 at 1:40PM
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“What’s wrong with being, what’s wrong with being
What’s wrong with being confident?
What’s wrong with being, what’s wrong with being
What’s wrong with being confident?
So you say I’m complicated
But you’ve had me underrat ...
Posted Tuesday, April 5th 2016 at 1:56PM
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"In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong."
--Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Supreme Court Justice
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Posted Wednesday, January 13th 2016 at 5:55PM
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To mark the end of this year, we are posting our most popular #LeadershipTuesdays features today on Twitter:
Check them out here: @womenatliberty or http://ow.ly/WqGwa
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Posted Tuesday, December 29th 2015 at 5:11PM
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This video discusses images of women in the media and what those images tell us about how women are viewed in popular culture. Includes interviews with Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence (MI), Norma J Torres (CA), and Mayor Lisa Yarbrough-Gauthier.
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Posted Tuesday, September 29th 2015 at 2:32PM
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This video discusses images of women in the media and what those images tell us about how women are viewed in popular culture. Includes interviews with Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence (MI), Norma J Torres (CA), and Mayor Lisa Yarbrough-Gauthier.
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Posted Tuesday, September 29th 2015 at 2:32PM
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"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994), US Olympic-winning Athlete
Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and re ...
Posted Tuesday, August 11th 2015 at 6:17AM
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"I needed people telling me no. I needed people to not get it and to look at me cross-eyed for me to really figure out exactly what I was going to do and how I was going to do it. It's something that I had to learn as a woman in business... a) Ask fo ...
Posted Tuesday, June 30th 2015 at 9:22AM
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"I needed people telling me no. I needed people to not get it and to look at me cross-eyed for me to really figure out exactly what I was going to do and how I was going to do it. It's something that I had to learn as a woman in business... a) Ask fo ...
Posted Tuesday, June 30th 2015 at 8:45AM
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"There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what th ...
Posted Wednesday, June 24th 2015 at 11:44AM
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“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encoura ...
Posted Tuesday, June 9th 2015 at 10:09AM
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If we stand tall it is because we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors.
--Yoruba Proverb
Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Today' ...
Posted Tuesday, February 17th 2015 at 1:27PM
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In an interview with Fresh Air, Terry Gross asked Ava Duvernay, ‘Where do you go next? You’re going to have a lot more clout now as a film director.'
"I don’t know if I’m going to have more clout. There’s really no prec ...
Posted Tuesday, February 10th 2015 at 3:57PM
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"Now race is one of those topics in America that makes people extraordinarily uncomfortable. You bring it up at a dinner party or in a workplace environment, it is literally the conversational equivalent of touching the third rail. There is shock followed by a long silence.
Now, I know that there are people out there who'll say that the election of Barack Obama meant that it was t ...
Posted Tuesday, February 3rd 2015 at 3:52PM
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I was fortunate enough to see Tom Brady, the quarterback for the New England Patriots, play in college at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1998. Going to a Michigan football game was very memorable for me. I left the game singing the few wo ...
Posted Saturday, January 31st 2015 at 4:11PM
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Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Today we feature an article, "One quality all young female leaders should have", Fortune magazine (On ...
Posted Tuesday, January 27th 2015 at 11:19AM
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I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and st ...
Posted Tuesday, January 20th 2015 at 3:38PM
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On Friday, January 2, 2015, Muriel E. Bowser was sworn into the Office of Mayor of the District of Columbia, the Capital of the United States. She is the second woman to hold this position, following in the footsteps of former Mayor Sharon Pratt Kell ...
Posted Tuesday, January 6th 2015 at 4:56PM
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#LeadershipTuesdays: Here's some advice on how to manage #risk from Heather Howell, National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA) Board Chair and Chief Tea Officer of Rooibee Red Tea http://youtu.be/bsU5Fwc6RoE ...
Posted Tuesday, October 28th 2014 at 11:05AM
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At the 2014 National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA) Conference and Career Fair, Board of Directors Member Terry Bankston (Bankston Management Group) spoke with Leadership Tuesdays about why it is important for him as a man to support organization ...
Posted Tuesday, October 28th 2014 at 9:34AM
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Social media has made far too many of us talking heads. In an anonymous fashion and sometimes with cruel words, we post opinions on any and every thing. When we were young and one of our "friends" offered an opinion that the majority did not agree wi ...
Posted Friday, September 12th 2014 at 4:23PM
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Join us Friday, 5/23, 3-4 pm for a Twitter Chat to talk about #smartgirls, What Would You Do 2 Help them succeed in #Leadership #WWYD2H
See the graphic below for more info or go to @womenatliberty (Twitter) ...
Posted Tuesday, May 20th 2014 at 5:05PM
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"We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square."
--Michelle Obama
Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT ...
Posted Wednesday, March 26th 2014 at 4:01PM
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In celebration of International Women's Day on March 8, 2014, Vital Voices, headquartered in Washington, D.C., hosted a Global Mentoring Walk in several cities including Washington, D.C. Leadership Tuesdays was on location talking with Gigi Scoles, H ...
Posted Tuesday, March 11th 2014 at 3:26PM
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