Women Making a Mark: Tara Murphy
Tara Murphy’s public relations career started with a D in one of her PR classes at Elon University. “It was never something that I wanted to focus on, which is very funny since I’ve now owned a PR company for 24 years."
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Cati Stone
The diagnosis was shocking: stage three breast cancer. Cati Stone was thirty-five, healthy, with no family history of breast cancer. As she listened to her treatment plan that fateful day in 2010—Herceptin treatments, sixteen...
Women Making a Mark: Michele Stumpe
Michele Stumpe’s list of charitable contributions and professional accomplishments is so lengthy, it reads like fiction, but the truth is that she’s built her life around making a difference.
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Deborah VanTrece
Deborah VanTrece has always been the underdog. The longtime flight attendant started culinary school in the wake of a workers’ strike that left her feeling vulnerable. She was one of the few Art Institute...
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Women Making a Mark: Liz Gillespie
Growing up, Liz Gillespie spent more time outside than inside. It’s fitting then that now, as partner and vice president of marketing at North American Properties, she promotes outdoor living.
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Women Making a Mark: Nancy Mansfield
Nancy Mansfield went to college in the early 1970s, when the second wave of feminism was in full swing. She saw Gloria Steinem speak and remembers how the energy of the time made her feel empowered.
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Women Making a Mark: Tameeka Law Walker
Tameeka Law Walker didn’t always dream of being a doctor, but she knew she wanted to serve others.
Women Making a Mark: Marquetta Bryan
Marquetta Bryan didn’t hesitate to say “yes” when she was asked
to lead American Cancer Society’s first Georgia board of directors. Not only had she lost two people dear to her to different forms of cancer, she couldn’t ignore the high cancer rate among African Americans.
Women Making a Mark: Charlene Crusoe-Ingram
Charlene Crusoe-Ingram, CEO of Meals On Wheels Atlanta (MOWA), was supposed to be retired. But then MOWA, where she served on the board, came calling when their executive director resigned unexpectedly.
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Michelle Wells
Michelle Wells’s world changed on her ninth birthday when her father had a heart attack. Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer the next year and for the rest of her childhood, her parents...