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Manisha Thakor and Sharon KedarTopics:
Manisha Thakor travels from: Houston, TX
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Personal Finance for Chicks
'Modern Girls' Pen Financial Guide
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Manisha Thakor (right) and Sharon Kedar (left) are the co-authors of: ON MY OWN TWO FEET: a modern girl's guide to personal finance. Their goal is to help women "own their finances" so they can "own their lives." Both women have extensive experience in the financial services industry. They have worked as financial analysts, portfolio managers, and client servicing/marketing executives for leading investment management firms with billions of dollars in assets under management. Thakor and Kedar each hold an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and are Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholders. Their mission is to help empower young women by spreading the word about the importance of financial literacy, and presenting the basics of personal finance 101 in a highly digestible format. Their work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, Business Week (online), US News & World Report (online), Essence, and Bust Magazine. Thakor and Kedar are frequent guests on tv and radio shows around the country. Their website is www.OnMyOwnTwoFeet.com. | ||||||
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Karla Jackson-BrewerTopics:
Travels from: New York City
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Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S., is an African American feminist therapist who specializes in the history of racism in the United States and Black feminism. She has developed training programs in the areas of multiculturalism, anti-racism, sexuality, sexual assault and spirituality. Jackson-Brewer has dedicated her work to helping individuals reach their personal potential, and thereby facilitate greater social change. She has taught at the college level for almost two decades and is currently a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University in the Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies Departments. Jackson-Brewer is the Vice President of the Board of Directors of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership and a Woodhull Faculty Fellow. | |||||
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Deborah SiegelTopics:
Travels from: New York City
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Articles:
Interview: Deborah Siegel
Why Can't These Mothers and Daughters Be Like Sisters?
Unrequited Love: Musings on Girls Gone Mild
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Deborah Siegel, Ph.D., is the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild. Siegel is a writer and consultant who specializes in gender, politics, and the unfinished business of feminism. Siegel comments frequently about myths and realities regarding women, sex, and power from bedroom to boardroom; the history of the women's movement; and feminism today. Siegel has written about women, sex, feminism, contemporary families, and popular culture for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, Psychology Today, The Progressive, and The Mothers Movement Online. She has been featured on CBS This Morning and New York 1 and interviewed on a variety of national radio programs, including Good Morning America Radio, The Wendy Williams Experience, The Judith Warner Show, and The Joey Reynolds Show. Siegel lectures frequently at colleges and universities, bookstores, national conferences, and organizations nationwide. She is a Fellow at the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership and editor of the anthology Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo. Siegel received her doctorate in English and American Literature with a minor in Women's Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. Read more about her work at www.deborahsiegel.net and on her blog, Girl with Pen | ||||||
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Jacquette M. TimmonsTopics:
Travels from: New York City
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Teaching Teens About Money
Just in Case — The last dependable man: your broker. |
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Jacquette M. Timmons is a national investment expert and financial coach, and the founder of Sterling Investment Management, an investment education and financial coaching firm. She has worked in the investment industry for 20 years, dedicating the last ten to teaching intelligent people how to be smarter with their money. Timmons conducts personal finance and stock market investing workshops and is a sought after speaker on the subjects of personal finance and stock market investing. Her recent media appearances include Bloomberg Radio, BET Tonight's Nightly News, WNBC's Today in New York and Fox TV's Good Day New York. She has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal and in magazines such as Teen Vogue, Black Enterprise and Heart and Soul. She has been profiled in Black Enterprise and in the book Doing It For Ourselves — Success Stories of African-American Women in Business. Timmons has written for Kuji Magazine, a life-style guide to self-enrichment, Glory, a Christian women's magazine and also created and writes, Financial Profundities, Sterling's e-newsletter and the firm's blog — TheSterlingChoices. She has also hosted The Street: Making Your Money Work for You, a weekly televised investment education program. Timmons holds an MBA in finance from Fordham University's Graduate School of Business and a BS in marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology. | |||||
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Robin SternTopics:
Travels from: New York City
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Robin Stern, Ph.D., is the author of The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life. Stern is an educator, psychotherapist and consultant who has spent 25 years developing and implementing programs to promote personal and professional growth through self-awareness, emotional competence and ethical leadership. She holds a masters degree in Personality and Social Development, a doctorate in Applied Psychology and Research Design, as well as a post-doctoral certificate in Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy. Stern is an associate professor of Communications at Teachers College, Columbia University and a consultant at The School at Columbia University, where she coaches faculty members in professional leadership development. She is a researcher and supervisor in social and emotional competency development at Hunter College Leadership Center and a consultant at Yale University, training educators to be coaches in emotional literacy. Stern is a group facilitator at Project Renewal, an initiative to enhance the lives of educators in New York City, as well as a founding board member at The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership. Additionally, she is a Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association. Stern is also the co-author of two books on emotional intelligence, for educators: Understanding Emotions in the Classroom and Emotionally Intelligent School Counseling. | ||||||
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Jennifer van der MeerTopics:
Travels from: New York City
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Articles:
A Debate over 'Greenwashing'
Green My Apple, Green My Future
Ask Inhabitat: Which Gadgest Are the Greenest |
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Jennifer van der Meer is an innovation consultant, writer, and advocate for environmental advocacy through conscious capitalism. A former Wall Street analyst and economist, van der Meer has observed that capitalism is an effective force for social and environmental change. Until recently, companies responded to pressure from short-term focused shareholders at the expense of long-term human and environmental concerns. A dramatic shift has occurred in the past several years, as companies are challenging their leaders to serve social, environmental, and shareholder goals. As a specialist in brand, design, and product innovation, van der Meer has witnessed this shift firsthand. She has been responsible for the conception and launch of over 50 brand and products to market, for companies such as GE, Disney, American Express, Motorola, Interface, Inc., and MTV. van der Meer's current consulting practice focuses on how companies can navigate their way to conscious, environmentally aware, responsible innovation. van der Meer is an organizer within the green and responsible business community, and serves as Board Chair for o2-NYC, a green design educational non-profit, Alumnae Chair for The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, and the Barnard Advisory Board for Entrepreneurs. As a writer, van der Meer's blog articles on Inhabitat.com, a green design site, have been published on BusinessWeek.com and Greenpeace alike. She has lectured on entrepreneurship, innovation, and green design at NYU, Barnard, and Columbia Business School. van der Meer received her MBA from HEC in Paris and has held strategy and executive management positions at Organic, Inc., Frog Design, and Fahrenheit 212. | |||||
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