Women Making A Mark

There is something unexpected about Dr. Meria Carstarphen, the forty-seven-year-old superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools. Maybe it's that she's a hugger ("you should have seen my dad at church," she says), or that, instead...

When asked what makes a play successful, Alliance Theater Artistic Director Susan Booth doesn't start in on box-office sales or positive reviews. Instead, she simply points to her heart, then to her head.A graduate...

As a child, Meisa Salaita was passionate about two things: sculpture and chemistry. As the cofounder and codirector of the Atlanta Science Festival, she is committed to making science a part of Atlanta’s popular culture.

An attorney and equestrian, Phyllis Sumner keeps companies like Home Depot, Equifax, and Kmart safe from cyber attacks, and uses horseback riding as her "therapy."

As CEO of Randstad North America, Linda Galipeau oversees the third-largest staffing organization in the United States, as well as an initiative to provide job training, apprenticeships, and placement services to victims of human trafficking and to those at risk of becoming victims.

In 2012, after her husband Ryan was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, the restaurant community hosted a benefit dinner to help the couple pay medical bills. Overwhelmed with gratitude, the couple decided to form a nonprofit, The Giving Kitchen, to assist other metro Atlanta restaurant workers in crisis.

The woman leading ChooseATL, a Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce outreach to recruit and retain talent, wants students who graduate from the city's colleges to call Atlanta home.

After an inexplicable miracle caused her son's tumor to disappear, Kristin Connor decided to dedicate her life to curing childhood cancer, something she does everyday as executive director of CURE Childhood Cancer.

Dr. Mylin Torres, director of the Glenn Family Breast Center, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, is leading groundbreaking research into the ways some cancer treatments might alter patients’ DNA.

Arasi went from singing in her family's church to conducting the Atlanta Women's Chorus and overseeing 200 Cobb County performing arts teachers.