Ashley Live: Recent Episodes
Ashley Lynn Priore
Join national strategist Ashley Lynn Priore for a show on politics, lifestyle, and mentorship with today's biggest influencers.
This episode features a recap of Season 2, focusing on female founders and leaders. The discussions revolve around personal growth, entrepreneurship, empowerment, and practical steps for unleashing one's inner queen, with insights from various guests.
On this episode, we discuss strategies for personal and professional success. We emphasize the importance of defining success individually, surrounding oneself with smart and motivating people, documenting work achievements, and networking effectively.
On this episode, we discuss the concept of finding one's purpose in life. Ashley shares her personal journey and provides practical steps for listeners to discover their own purpose, emphasizing that purpose can evolve and influence all aspects of life.
On this episode, we discuss the multifaceted benefits of learning chess. Ashley shares how chess has influenced her career and personal development, emphasizing its role in enhancing strategic thinking, decision-making, and focus. Ashley also provides insights into how chess skills are applicable in various aspects of life, including business, academics, and personal growth.
In this episode, we discuss the significance of morning routines and how they can set the tone for a successful day. Ashley shares personal insights and three key constants in her morning routine: a good read, a brain workout, and meditation, explaining how each contributes to her daily productivity and mental clarity.
Ashley Lynn Priore shares her journey from learning chess at a young age to founding Queens, Gambit, a nonprofit aimed at empowering young people in chess. She discusses the importance of networking, building a supportive community, and the challenges and advice for starting a nonprofit.
In this episode, we discuss immediate actions to feel more empowered, drawing inspiration from the strategic moves of queens in chess. We focus on getting clear on what you want, limiting distractions, and setting accountability standards as key steps towards empowerment.
In this episode of Queen Me, we discuss the concept of financial wellness. Ashley shares her personal journey with money, from early education to her current understanding, and emphasizes the importance of financial wellness as a combination of knowledge and a positive relationship with money.
In this episode of Queen Me, we discuss the Youth on Boards movement, focusing on the significance of intergenerational diversity and the inclusion of young leaders in nonprofit boards. Ashley shares insights from her initiative, Y22, and critiques the current state of youth representation on boards, advocating for meaningful inclusion to foster innovation and sustainability.
In this episode of Queen Me, we interview Mara Smith, founder of Inspiro Tequila, a clean, additive-free tequila brand. Mara shares her journey from being a lawyer to entrepreneurship, emphasizing the skills gained as a stay-at-home mom, the importance of thorough research, and the challenges of starting a business during the pandemic.
In this episode of Queen Me, we discuss the concept of empowerment in three steps: understanding empowerment, empowering oneself, and empowering others. We emphasize that empowerment is about increasing one's capacity to make choices and transform their lives, not just through physical strength but also mental resilience.
Regan Robinson believes in the power of possibility. She is a holistic futurist and business strategist that empowers visionary companies to turn uncertainty into advantage and effortlessly innovate and strategize for their future. Her resolute mission is to rewire our culture and put us on a path of revolutionary transformation and limitless human potential by doing less, not doing more.
There are other ways to build your brand without a fancy website. How do you get here? This episode, we will discuss becoming non-negotiable with your brand (aka how you want to put yourself out into the world and be seen). We dive into branding yourself, asking others to “brand” you, and researching to find inspiration.
We are going to help you achieve your personal “queen me!” and find your voice through seven prime categories. Our show isn’t just top women in the industry sharing their insight and advice…it’s a network of women, myself included, outlining ways we found our inner queen and how you can too.
Becca Levian is the founder and creative director of Skye High Interactive, a marketing agency that creates unforgettable brands and websites for established entrepreneurs who believe that business is human. Becca has over 15 years of web design and visual brand strategy experience.
Brandi Dugal is the founder and CEO of The Fidget Game, an interactive and exciting educational game that will help your children learn grade level skills in weeks. The Fidget Game has reached 50,000+ schools in the USA. With passion and joy, Brandi continues to ignite the love of learning in children and is committed to making education affordable, effective, and enjoyable.
Sahaana serves as a Player Services Coordinator for the Cleveland Browns where she empowers players on and off the field. Sahaana began her career in sports at Tulane University where she served as Equipment Manager for Tulane Green Wave.
Alaina Percival is the CEO and co-founder of Women Who Code, a nonprofit empowering diverse women to excel in technology careers. Alaina envisions a tech industry where diverse women and historically excluded people thrive at every level.
Lindsey Smith is an entrepreneur, literary agent, and bestselling author of eight books, including the award-winning Eat Your Feelings. Lindsey’s #1 passion is helping you take your book project from “idea” to “done.” She is also the founder of One Idea Press.
Julia Shatilo's work experience includes various roles at SXSW, where they worked from 2014 to the present. Julia started as an Assistant Program Coordinator and eventually became the Senior Programming Manager and later the Programming Director for SXSW EDU. Julia also worked in Press & Publicity at SXSW EDU. Prior to their time at SXSW, Julia worked at The British Museum as a Corporate Relations Assistant and Intern. Julia also gained experience as a Talent Intern at ID Public Relations and had a role in media and public relations at Texas 4000 for Cancer. Julia also had internships at SXSW as a Sponsor Registration Intern and at Giant Noise as a Public Relations Intern.
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Meredith Goldberg-Morse is the Director of Social Impact for MTV Entertainment Studios at Paramount, where she develops storyline integrations and content-led impact campaigns across major brands including MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, and Smithsonian Channel. In this role, she also helped produce the Mental Health Media Guide, a groundbreaking resource designed to help storytellers expand mental health representation in entertainment media, alongside a coalition of leading entertainment companies and mental health expert organizations.
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Natalie Bencivenga is a socially conscious journalist and media personality. She currently pens the nationally digitally syndicated "Ask Natalie" advice column for the Universal Press Syndicate. Natalie was voted “40 Under 40” in 2020 by Pittsburgh Magazine and PUMP and was the recipient of a “One in a Million award” for her web series, #FiveMinutesWith… highlighting people working towards justice and equity in our communities that airs every Friday night on Alone Together Pittsburgh.
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Maya Myers is an award winning lifestyle documentary photographer based in Los Angeles and New York, specializing in luxury weddings and special events. Her wedding images have won awards with the Wedding Photojournalists Association (WPJA), International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers (ISPWP), and Fearless Photographers, and she has been published in a variety of outlets including BRIDES, The Knot, Destination I Do Magazine, The New York Times Style section, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Huffington Post, Style Me Pretty, Style Unveiled, Ceremony Magazine Blog, Variety, InStyle, W, and many more. She is also the founder of the lifestyle brand All Moringa.
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Deborah Acklin served as the President and Chiief Executive Officer of WQED Multimedia, the nation's first community-owned public media company, also known worldwide as “Mister Rogers' station." Ms. Acklin has served in multiple executive roles in public broadcasting, the cable television industry, and commercial broadcasting.
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Andrea Flack-Wetherald is social worker turned comedian and #1 bestselling author of The Funny Thing About Forgiveness: What every leader needs to know about improv, culture and the world’s least favorite F word. The central thesis of her work is that engaging two core activities with Mindful Improv Thinking™ (confrontation and forgiveness) will pave the way for more joy, more connection, greater influence, better collaboration and more peace in the world.
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Maegan Amato, Sales Director at Gabriel, is a result-based leader and feminist. As a working mom of two, she has coached many women on interviewing in the midst of expanding their family. She believes strongly in diversity in the workplace and wants to remove barriers for any women looking to shatter the glass ceiling. #AshleyLive #GirlsDayIn
Erin is a thought leader and frequent speaker on gender equity where she inspires audiences to take action and create change in their communities and organizations. Erin is the President of Poker Power, an edtech company with a mission to teach one million women how to play the game…the game of poker and the game of life. Learning how to think, strategize, negotiate and allocate capital, like a winning poker player, translates to leadership skills that help women succeed from the classroom to the board room. #AshleyLive #GirlsDayIn
Dr. Lucy Houghton is a registered nurse, courage and wellbeing researcher, and a board-certified wellness coach. Dr. Houghton spent ten years as a Certified Athletic Trainer for collegiate and Olympic athletes and fourteen years as a nurse in emergency services, post-anesthesia care, and leadership development. She is an award-winning speaker, author of the Courage Cultivation Theory, and co-author of the Post Burnout Growth Theory. Her research focuses on the importance and role of courage in women’s leadership and the intersection between courage and wellbeing. #AshleyLive #GirlsDayIn
Sonali David has 14 years of gender and inclusion experience that ranges across development agencies like UNDP, World Bank and the government of India (Ministry of Rural Development). Her experience in gender is multi-sectoral, which includes but is not limited to rural development, water and sanitation, transport, skilling, energy and more. She co-authored the World Bank's India Gender Portfolio Review 2018. She also volunteers to teach high school students about DEI and its applications. #AshleyLive #GirlsDayIn
Julia Carneiro, founder of amplify, an inclusion tech with a mission to provide education for children around the world who are deaf or suffer from hearing loss. Julia found she was spending more and more time finding resources to help her son, who was born profoundly deaf. As she investigated more, she was shocked at how many children around the world were affected by hearing loss, many of whom had no access to support. This was the spark that gave life to amplify. #AshleyLive #GirlsDayIn
Janice Liu is an entrepreneur at her core. She has founded and led several for-profit and non-for profit businesses and organizations. Aside from building and scaling businesses, she is an angel investor, supporting Cornell Tech in their quarterly start up guidance sessions and sits on several boards and in advisory roles across start ups in hospitality, healthcare, tech and software. Janice believes in an equity, inclusiveness and a future of work that opposes systemic and frameworks of oppression. #AshleyLive #GirlsDayIn
Michelle Beyo is the CEO & founder of FINAVATOR, an award-winning FinTech and Payments Consultancy. She is also a strategic advisor to FinTechs, a Money 20/20 Rise Up alumni, a Global Council Member of Women in Payments, the Membership Chair at Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization, a Payment Advisor at National Crowdfunding and FinTech Association of Canada, and a Board Member at Open Finance Network of Canada (OFNC). Michelle started FINAVATOR as she is passionate about payments and financial inclusion. She has 20 years of extensive industry experience driving innovation across the retail and payments industry. Michelle Beyo was named the “Top 30 Best CEOs of 2021” by The Silicon Valley Review."
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Nicole Jones serves as the Customer Success Operations Manager for a global cybersecurity consulting firm. Nicole is an advocate for positive change, a waymaker, and complex problem solver who focuses on delivering efficient solutions to multi-faceted problems. With her Renaissance attitude and background in Sociology this has helped in diverse fields from retail to cybersecurity, she has continually demonstrated a focus on customer satisfaction through employee engagement and strengthening of meaningful communication channels.
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Kat Frey is the owner and founder of Oxygen Coaching Group, speaker, author, & coach. What started as Oxygen Equestrian, her brainchild of helping business professionals learn more about their body language and relationship styles through hands-on work with horses has turned into an elite training and coaching company where her experience in the intermodal transportation industry (BNSF & UP Railroad), industrial manufacturing industry, and wireless communication industry (Verizon Wireless) allows owners, managers, and business professions to learn more about how their actions affect every part of their results and how they contribute to their lives.
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Diana Kapp is a journalist and author of Girls Who Run The World and Girls Who Green The World. Her work has has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, ELLE, Marie Claire, O the Oprah Magazine, California Sunday Magazine, Sunset, and Outside.com.
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Aarna is a writer, poet and activist from Mumbai, India. Her main passion is sexual violence and mental health advocacy, and has spoken at events and on panels surrounding these topics. She hopes to run for office one day. In her free time, Aarna loves to read, write and reflect on why things are the way they are.
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Ellyana is a student at the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in Social Work. She served as an intern in the City of Pittsburgh's District 8 Office under Councilmember Erika Strassburger. We talked about Ellyana's story and what's next for her in public service.
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Riley Reed is a senior at DePaul University, leads a nonprofit, and is an activist for queer rights in the community. Riley talked with us about her story and why this election matters so much to her.
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Abby Rickin-Marks is a student at Fox Chapel in Pittsburgh, PA and is the program coordinator for Education not Discrimination. She talked about the election, youth advocacy, and why now is the time for youth to be engaged.
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Santiago Mayer is the founder and Executive Director of Voters of Tomorrow and the co-founder of Prom at the Polls. Santiago talked with us about what this election means to him and how is work is empowering youth across the country.
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Robyn Colajezzi (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 145. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020. She advanced from the Democratic primary on June 2, 2020.
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Rafael Campos is a graduate from Georgetown University and currently works at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC. Rafael talked with us about what this election means to him and why we need youth involvement more than ever before.
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Michael Blichar Jr. (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 187. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020. He advanced from the Democratic primary on June 2, 2020.
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Sophia Shapiro is a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh, co-president at Students for Biden at Pitt, and the co-founder of Prom at the Polls (a national organization dedicated to getting young people to the polls in November).
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Peter Buck (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 171. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020. He advanced from the Democratic primary on June 2, 2020.
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Julie Slomski (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Pennsylvania State Senate to represent District 49. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020. She advanced from the Democratic primary on June 2, 2020.
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Maggie Di Sanza is a youth activist and mastermind behind Bleed Shamelessly, an organization designed to end the stigmas against menstruation, through political and social change.
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Michelle Siegel (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Pennsylvania State Senate to represent District 27. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020. She advanced from the Democratic primary on June 2, 2020.
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Margie Brown (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Pennsylvania State Senate to represent District 25. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020. She advanced from the Democratic primary on June 2, 2020.
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Jason Bohner is the co-founder of Bronx Science Young Democrats Club, leads Young Progressives for Biden in New York, and leads a nonprofit organization dedicated to civics education.
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Jacob, 33, was raised in West Kittanning, about an hour’s drive north of the city. In 2010 he graduated from Gannon University and went on to earn his master’s degree in theology from the Augustine Institute in Denver, Colorado. You can probably catch Jacob walking Theo, his eighty-pound labradoodle, in Crafton Heights or often down at the Point.
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Jonathan Lovitz is a union member, experienced lawmaker, trusted equality champion, and the pro-economy, pro-equity, pro-solutions candidate for PA's 182 District. Youth Political Strategies is proud to endorse him in this election.
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Deb Ciamacca (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 168. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020. She advanced from the Democratic primary on June 2, 2020.
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Charlie Panfil is the Executive Director of Friends of Intelligent Democracy PAC. Friends of Intelligent Democracy PAC is a political action committee run by college students focused on supporting Democratic candidates for the United States Congress and President of the United States.
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Christian Moore serves as the Manager of Engagement & Talent at CORO Pittsburgh, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance ethical leaders and build leadership capacity in order to create a more connected and inclusive community.
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Kate Colligan serves as the Director of Development and Communication of Basic Health International, a globally recognized nonprofit and leader in the prevention of cervical cancer.
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Kia Ingram serves as the CEO of Cultivating Resilient Youth, a nonprofit organization in the city of Pittsburgh that empowers teens for success in life through mentoring, academic preparation and creating opportunities for social change.
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Fawn Walker-Montgomery is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Take Action Mon Valley (TAMV) which started in 2014 after Autumn Perkins put a call out regarding homicides of black people getting solved in Pittsburgh.
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North Hills Community Outreach is a community-and interfaith-based organization addressing the needs of people in crisis, hardship and poverty. Tom Baker serves as the Executive Director, and Erica Cochran serves as the Development Director.
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Brad Eddy is the Volunteer and Community Engagement for the Education Partnership, an organization providing school supplies for students and their teachers in low-income schools in Southwestern PA.
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Abigail Hilton is a Queens Gambit instructor and American chess player.
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Natalie Ahwesh serves as the Executive Director of Humane Action Pittsburgh, a non-profit organization with nonpartisan members who are dedicated to advancing animal protection through education, policy, and community action.
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Nadya Ortiz is a chess champion who is the first and only female Chess Grand Master in Colombia.
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Somdatta Basu is a Queens Gambit instructor and American chess player.
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Heather Hackett is the PA Engagement Associate and Communications Consultant for Benefits Data Trust, an organization transforming benefits access by utilizing private sector strategies for public benefits. Heather also serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for Ten Thousand Villages in Pittsburgh, PA and remains an active volunteer in the nonprofit community.
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Stephen Santa is a theatre director, arts educator, and advocate currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. He also serves as the co-founder and Artistic Director of Jumping Jack Theater, a children's theater production company in Pittsburgh, PA which creates original works for audiences that would benefit from sensory and autism-friendly strategies.
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Judit Sztaray is the General Manager of Events and Youth Outreach at Mechanics' Institute, a cultural center and chess club in San Francisco.
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Founded Aerial in 2009 at the age of 21 with the mission of elevating people and places. Britnie has since formed multiple companies under the Aerial brand, all accelerating the mission by empowering people, sustaining the planet and utilizing capitalism as a force for good. Through the success of her companies, Britnie is resetting the standard of what is possible for women and young people across the globe and has won several national and international awards for speed of growth, innovation and trajectory. Aerial’s commitment to a triple bottom line approach is proving that conscious business is not only viable but the way of the future.
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Sarah Allen-Short has 20 years of experience creating, overseeing, and implementing strategic marketing and communications plans for private and public organizations of all sizes. She specializes in programs that blend strategic and tactical work to help organizations cut through the clutter. She currently serves as the Vice President of Marketing at Chain.io.
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Recently named one the first 250 entrepreneurs on the Forbes Next 1000 List, Illana Raia is the founder and CEO of Être - a mentorship platform for girls. Believing that mentors matter as early as middle school, Illana brings girls directly into companies they select to meet female leaders face to face.
Illana is a member of the International Space Station U.S. National Lab Education Subcommittee and serves on the National Girls’ Collaborative Champions Board. Illana has authored 60+ articles for HuffPost, Ms. Magazine and Thrive Global, and her award-winning book Être: Girls, Who Do You Want To Be? was released on Day of the Girl 2019. Her second best-selling book, The Epic Mentor Guide, arrived during Women’s History Month 2022.
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Eleni is a proven marketing leader with experience that's been honed with mega-retailers and industry innovators. With a front row view of the social media industry since "the early days," Eleni now lead community-driven strategy for social media, public relations, collaborations, promotions, influencer marketing, and social impact for Lilly Pulitzer, the iconic American Resortwear brand born in Palm Beach over 60 years ago.
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Dr. Iris Orbuch is the Director of the Advanced Gynecologic Laparoscopy Center in Los Angeles and New York City. She is a fellowship trained Endometriosis excision surgeon and the author of Beating Endo: How to Reclaim Your Life from Endometriosis.
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Jennifer Justice is the founder and CEO of The Justice Dept., a female focused advisory and legal firm which works with entrepreneurs, executives, talent, brands and creatives in all stages of their careers and businesses in the areas of tech, consumer product, media, entertainment and fashion. Jennifer is an experienced executive and attorney in the fields of entertainment, music, media and live experience with a demonstrated history of generating high revenue returns merging art and commerce. She spent years building the brands and careers of artist such as Jay-Z and businesses such as Roc Nation. She currently hosts the podcast Takin' Care of Lady Business.
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Neelou Malekpour was born in Seattle and raised in Tehran, Iran, before moving to Los Angeles during the Iranian Revolution. She started SMUDGED as a tribute to her late grandmother, who taught her to be responsible for the vibrations she put out into the world. She has worked with brands such as UNICEF, YogaWorks, 1 Hotels, Selina, Soho House, Sydell Group, Guerilla Union, Real Dog Rescue, and more. Malekpour has contributed to publications such as New York Metro, the Los Angeles Daily News, Us Weekly, and Harper's Bazaar. She lives in Miami Beach.
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Kara Goldin is the Founder of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint® water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. She has been named one of InStyle’s Badass 50, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Fortune's Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink and EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. The Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors in business, alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Kara’s first book, Undaunted, was published by Harper Leadership in October 2020 and is now a WSJ and Amazon Best Seller.
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Moriah Hathaway serves as the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Commission for Women.
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Sarah McBride is an American activist and politician who is a Democratic member of the Delaware Senate since January 2021.
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Dan LaVallee was a 2014 Democratic candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 3rd Congressional District of Pennsylvania. He currently works for UPMC where he leads social responsibility initiatives.
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Tom Steyer is a successful investor, business leader, philanthropist and activist who is fully committed to fighting the climate crisis.
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U.S. Senator Bob Casey fights every day for Pennsylvania families. He is a strong advocate for policies that improve the health care and early learning of children and policies that will raise wages for the middle class. Senator Casey serves on four committees including the Senate Finance Committee and Senate HELP Committee. He is also the highest ranking Democrat on the Special Committee on Aging, where his agenda is focused on policies that support seniors and individuals with disabilities. Senator Casey and his wife Terese have four daughters and live in Scranton.
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Erika Strassburger is a member of Pittsburgh City Council, proudly serving the residents of the City’s 8th District. She is the first woman elected to this seat.
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Dana Brown is the Executive Director of the Pennsylvanian Center for Women in Politics.
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Carlos Rafael Rivera is an Emmy Award-winning composer who wrote the score for Netflix’s THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT.
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Dana Brown, Executive Director of the Pennsylvanian Center for Women in Politics. Dana talks with us about the Center for Women in Politics, Election 2020, and much more.