Girl to boss: advice for girls from 50 of America's most successful women

Foreword A note from Julia and Her Dad ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Elizabeth "Beth" Ballard: Engineer, Argo AI Megan McConnell: Artificial Intelligence Consultant, McKinsey & Co. AVIATION AND AEROSPACE: Julia Cline: Research Aerospace Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center Betsy MacLennan: Pilot, First Officer, United Airlines BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICAL: Pam Randhawa: Chief Executive Officer, Emperiko Corp. BLOCKCHAIN, CRYPTO, AND DIGITAL CURRENCIES: Amy Kim: Policy Lead for Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currencies, PayPal Inc. CYBERSECURITY: Leslie Anderson: Chief Strategist, Cybersecurity Operations, MITRE Corp. DATA SCIENCE: Janet Jones-Oliveira: Data Scientist and Director of Advanced Technology, Verite Group, Inc. ECONOMICS, FINANCE, AND VENTURE CAPITAL: Marguerita Cheng, CFP: Chief Executive Officer, Blue Ocean Global Wealth Schelo Doirin: Founder, Black Women Invest Constance Hunter: Exonomist, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Strategy and ESG (Environmental , Social, and Governance), American International Group, Inc. Esther Lee: Chief Executive Officer, Refraction Kimberly Smith Spacek: Head of Capital Formation, TechStars EDUCATION: Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Professor, New York University; Historian, Author, and Commentator Gail Helt: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Director of the King Security and Intelligence Studies, King University; former Central Intelligence Agency officer Dr. Anne Kress: President, Northern Virginia Community College Lauren Strawderman: Third-Grade Teacher ENERGY: Noel Bakhtian: Director of Tech Acceleration, Bezos Earth Fund Mei Cai: Director, Battery Cell Systems Research, General Motors Research & Development ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY: Amy Berry: Chief Executive Officer, Tahoe Fund Cora Snyder: Senior Researcher, Pacific Institute GOVERNMENT SERVICE: Carmela Conroy: Foreign Service Officer (ret.), U.S. Department of State; Democratic Party Chair Carmen Medina: Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency (ret.); Co-Author, Rebels at Work: A Handbook for Leading Change from Within Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: Fifteen-Term Congresswoman from Florida (1989-2019); Senior Advisor on Public Policy, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

JOURNALISM: Maureen Dowd: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist, The New York Times

Norah O'Donnell: Anchor, CBS Evening News

LEGAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT: Jill Baker: Criminal Defense Attorney, Minnesota Judicial Branch, Fifth Judicial District

Subhashini Bollini: Civil Rights Attorney, Partner, Correia & Puth, PLLC

Susan Friedlander: Earman General District Court Judge

Stacey Kincaid: Sheriff

MARKETING: Kathryne Reeves: Chief Marketing Officer, Illumina, Inc.

MEDIA, ARTS, AND ENTERTAINMENT: Emily Greenspan: Owner, Tag-Arts, and Art Consultant

Eun Sun Kim: Music Director, San Francisco Opera

Jill Hennessy: Actor, Singer, Songwriter

Margaret Wallace: Entrepreneur, Gaming and Media Professional, Co-Founder of Playmatics; Professor, Boston University

MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE: Dr. Rina Bansal, MD: MBA President, Inova Alexandria Hospital

Jean Braden: Nurse Practitioner, The Children's Clinic

Dr. Sandy Ibrahim: Primary Care Physician, Medical Director at Inova 360° Concierge Medicine

Dr. Seema Yasmin: Epidemiologist, Stanford University; Professor, University of California, Los Angeles; Journalist

MILITARY: Vernice "Flygirl" Armour: America's First Black Female Combat Pilot, First Black Female Pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps, Entrepreneur, Investor, Police Officer, Keynote Speaker

PHILANTHROPY: Cynthia Germanotta (Lady Gaga's Mom): President, Born This Way Foundation

RISK MANAGEMENT: Meredith Wilson: Chief Executive Officer, Emergent Risk International

SPORTS: Cynthia Marshall: Chief Executive Officer, Dallas Mavericks, National Basketball Association

Benita Fitzgerald Mosley: Olympic Gold Medalist; Vice President, Community & Impact, and President, FundPlay, LeagueApps

TECHNOLOGY AND SOFTWARE: Jeanette Cajide: Vice President of Strategy, Dialexa (an IBM company)

Jakita Owensby Thomas: Phillpott Westpoint Stevens Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University

Tonya Walley: Vice President of Field Operations Strategy, Cox Communications

TRANSPORTATION: Diana Marina Cooper: Global Head of Policy & Regulations, Supernal

TRAVEL AND TOURISM: Kristin Kitchen: Chief Executive Officer, Sojourn Heritage Accommodations

VETERINARY AND ANIMAL CARE: Dr. Molly Benner: Veterinarian

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