Pride month might be over but LGBT+ visibility is needed all year round. Meet LGBT Ally Maddy Falle, in 2015 she was a producer on the viral short film Gay Mean Girls, that earned over 3.5 million hits on YouTube. After the success of the film, they went on to launch a queer coming-of-age web series bearing the same name.
Where is the number one city in the world to be a woman entrepreneur in 2019? Dell has just released their 2019 Women Entrepreneur Cities (WE Cities) Index at their 10th annual Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network Summit. The index ranks 50 global cities on their ability to foster growth for women entrepreneurs. We’re proud to see our HQ Toronto in the top 10!
An entrepreneur at heart, Daphne De Groot was driven to create an alternative to Toronto’s outdated real estate model. Today, Daphne is the CEO of Justo — a new type of real estate brokerage. She is responsible for bringing this client-centric real estate brokerage to fruition and providing strategic oversight across the organization. Determined to bring fairness to the marketplace, she successfully developed a profitable solution for both buyers and sellers.
Caroline Drees is a passionate proponent of diversity and inclusion, and has spent much of her career working to support underrepresented groups, close gender gaps and promote equality in the workplace. The Global Editor, Editorial Learning and Culture, at the global news organization Reuters, her responsibilities include diversity and inclusion, training, talent and career development for Reuters’ more than 2,500 staff members.
After Rumana was viciously attacked and blinded by her husband in her hometown of Dhaka, Bangladesh, she refused to give up. She started her career as a Lecturer but after becoming blind, she took her career in a new direction. She moved to Vancouver where she pursued a law degree at UBC and today she is a counsel at the Department of Justice Canada in Vancouver.
After owning and running a successful wholesale fashion sales agency, Annalie decided to take her career in a new and more fulfilling direction — when she took on a role as the Executive Director of The Remix Project. Remix is a globally respected organization, that gives children from disadvantaged areas access to free educational programs that help them build their natural talents.
Sara and Idalina are the co-founders of a majority-women film production company, Her Film Company, based in Toronto, Ontario. Their objective is to empower female filmmakers and to create a company were women take priority in key creative roles. Their films are made for everyone, with a focus on female social and political issues worldwide.
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How Maryann Turcke went from civil engineer to a top job in the NFL
Where is the number one city in the world to be a woman entrepreneur in 2019?
Meet Daphne De Groot: a woman on a mission to revolutionize the real estate market
Good Question: My mentor told me that I need to put more effort on critical mandates. Was it a criticism of my work? What am I missing?
Meet Caroline Drees: Global Editor, Editorial Learning and Culture at Reuters
Meet Maddy Falle: Producer behind the viral short film turned web series Gay Mean Girls
