


Caren Merrick
Meet the basement entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist.

Rania Zayyat – Founder of Wonder Women of Wine
Promoting and supporting gender equality in the wine world. That’s been the mission of Sommelier Rania Zayyat. A leader in the global wine industry, Rania is the founder of Wonder Women of [...]

Afa Dworkin – President and Artistic Director of The Sphinx Organization
Afa Dworkin is passionate about promoting diversity in classical music and does so as President and Artistic Director of The Sphinx Organization. It supports a national roster of distinguished [...]

Denise Roberts Hurlin, Dancer, Educator, Activist
Dancer, educator, activist, all describe Denise Roberts Hurlin. Part of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Denise is a founding member of Parsons Dance. She’s also taught at Julliard in [...]

Tracy Edwards, Competitive Yachtswoman, Author, and Philanthropist
How to describe Tracy Edwards? Let's start with determined, accomplished, ballsy, adventurous, passionate. In 1989, when she was in her mid-20's, Tracy and her crew of 11 females became the [...]

Roberta Hoskie, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
Roberta Hoskie has one helluva story to share. A high school drop-out and a mom at 17, Roberta was on welfare living in a Connecticut homeless shelter. But with a lot of grit, determination, [...]
Divine Intervention
I truly believe that things happen for a reason – that it’s more than sheer coincidence when people are brought together. Two years ago, I wrote a piece for the CWCW website about a [...]

Dena Grushkin, Teacher/Philanthropist
You'll want to meet and get to know Special Education teacher Dena Grushkin, who recently retired after 35 years in the classroom. However, a 2004 trip to Nigeria turned out to be a seminal [...]
Women’s Bean Project Featured in Slate
WOMEN’S BEAN PROJECT was recently featured in Slate, which describes the organization as “a nonprofit gourmet products manufacturer shows how the ‘social enterprise’ [...]