Category: Education

Melissa Silverstein has one helluva resume. She's a writer, lecturer, founder and editor of Women and Hollywood, one of the most respected and go-to-sites when it comes to women, film and other areas of pop culture. She's also the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Athena Film Festival at New York City's Barnard College. Clearly she has plenty to talk about.

Meet modern day explorer, pioneer, author Milbry Polk who among her travels, led a camel expedition retracing Alexander the Great's route across Egypt. Polk co-founded WINGS WorldQuest, a non-profit organization that serves as the leading resource and advocate for female explorers world-wide. She is extra-ordinary!

New Mexico's Teresa Loveless was born into a family of artists. When she was 4, Teresa's grandmother, Rachel Brown, known for her work creating and promoting weaving and textile arts, gave her a loom and taught her to weave. In 1980 Brown began Weaving Southwest, a gallery and yarn-dyeing business outside Taos. Teresa currently runs the business - carrying on Rachel's legacy. She hand dyes an array of weaving and knitting yarns, teaches contemporary tapestry weaving and represents several local artists in the gallery. Her's is a true labor of love.

With $50, vision and determination, Amanda Kraus, founded Row New York in 2002 and serves at its Executive Director. What began as a pilot program has grown into a thriving organization serving more than 2,000 middle and high school boys and girls a year in Queens and Manhattan. Kraus was named a 2012 Community Leadership Award winner by the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition.

You'll never look at ice sheets the same after you "meet" Robin Bell, PhD. The PGI Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University has, among her many accomplishments, coordinated nine major aero-geophysical expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland. A passionate sailor, she and her family have crossed the Atlantic twice and recently chased icebergs in the Labrador Sea.