Hollywood writer and producer Shonda Rhimes was honored on Wednesday with the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the annual Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Breakfast. Shonda is responsible for hits series: How to Get Away with Murder, Scandal, and Grey’s Anatomy. Watch and/or read her full speech below. Photocredit: Getty Images Shonda Rhimes Full Speech …
Internationally acclaimed Francisca Okeke is the first woman to serve as Dean of Physical Sciences at University of Nigeria. Ladybrille MagazineFounded in 2007, Ladybrille® Magazine is a California based pioneer digital publication demystifying the image of Africans in the west through contemporary African fashion and celebrating the brilliant woman in business and leadership, with an …
Billboard Magazine has released its annual list of some of the most powerful women executives in America’s music industry. It’s an exciting list of highly achieving women and we are particularly pleased to see an inclusion of highly successful women of color. A few examples follow: “Debra Lee at #10: Chairman/CEO, BET Networks “Debra has prepared …
Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Allison Madueke, has been elected as President of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Alison-Madueke’s election as President of OPEC took place on Thursday at the ongoing 166th ordinary meeting of the Organisation, taking place in Vienna, Austria. She becomes the first female to be elected into that position, …
MAKERS: Women in Politics Produced and Directed by Grace Lee, Produced by Rory Kennedy WOMEN IN POLITICS profiles the long, slow fight for female political representation over the last century, from the first woman elected to Congress in 1916 to a young woman running for Detroit City Council in 2013. Trailblazing leaders like Hillary Clinton, …