Make Your Mark - Breaking the Glass Ceiling - Women, Voting, and Equality - WBDC The Women’s Business Development Center - WBDC.org

Guests discuss the fight, passion, and purpose needed to ignite and empower the next generation of young women. ©MMXX WBDC.org

Conversation on public policy as a means to economic independence for women and, in turn, to wealth creation, economic growth, and political equity. ©MMXX WBDC.org

Guests discuss the state of educational equity—and how equity and access create a pathway to social, political, and economic mobility for women. ©MMXX WBDC.org

Women are trailblazing their unique pathways to leadership, shattering the glass ceiling and creating legacies within their organizations and communities. Wendy Doyle (President & CEO, Women’s Foundation), Cassandra Sanford (Co-Founder/CEO, Kelly Mitchell), and Kathryn Graves Unger (Vice President, North America Government Relations, Cargill) join moderator Debra Jennings-Johnson (Senior Director, Supplier Diversity, BP) for a discussion on leadership and civic engagement.

Female leaders in the corner office are the catalyst for driving women’s civic and economic empowerment both inside their organizations, as well as within their communities. Join guests Joanna Sobran (Founder & CEO, MXOtech) and Stephanie Hickman (President/CEO, Trice Construction), with moderator Ellen Sherberg (Special Advisor to American City Business Journal CEO) for a discussion on their professional journeys and political participation.

Listen in as our moderator, Melody Spann Cooper (Chairperson, Midway Broadcasting Company) interviews Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth on the importance of women in leadership and how civic and economic empowerment can help level the playing field. ©MMXX WBDC.org