Category: International

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!

Karen Malpede is the author/director of 19 plays produced in the US, Europe and Australia... a body of work that focuses on critical issues of the day - war, human rights and social change. She and husband, actor/producer George Bartenieff are the co-founders and co-artistic directors of Theater Three Collaborative in New York.

Dorothy Kalins is a mover and shaker. The founding editor-in-chief of Metropolitan Home, she was also the driving force behind Saveur magazine. Kalins was also Executive Editor of "Newsweek" where she helped direct its National Magazine Award-winning coverage of 9/11. In 2006 she launched Dorothy Kalins Ink - a magazine consulting and book publishing company.

Marione Ingram lived in Hamburg, Germany in the late 1930s/early 1940s. In her memoir, "The Hands of War", she shares her harrowing, yet fascinating account of growing up Jewish under Hitler, and surviving Operation Gomorrah, 10 days and nights of relentless bombings by US and British Air Forces. As a teenager Marione emigrated to the US and having experienced racial discrimination in Europe became very active in the civil rights movement.

Who doesn't know Dress For Success? Founder Nancy Lublin came up with the idea in 1995 during her first year of law school. She has since gone on to become the CEO of DoSomething.org, the largest organization for teens looking to make social change.