Under the Sisterhood

Today we’re getting under the hood of Kirthika Parmeswaran a mother, daughter, sister, Founder, CEO and a Board Member of Vital Start Health, an innovative reproductive and maternal mental health company using Virtual Reality from the University of Pennsylvania. Kirthika is a Wharton alum, with deep expertise across business and technology. She has won numerous awards and honors, including Outstan...

Today we’re getting under the hood of Robyn Streisand a mother, daughter, sister, friend, health, and wellness advocate, and the founder of The Mixx and Titanium with diversity in mind.  A trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community, she has made it her mission to make marketing and advertising more inclusive. As the recipient of AdColor’s 2021 Advocate Award, Crain’s 2021 Notable LGBTQ Leader Award, AdAg...

Today we’re getting under the hood of Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz, a mother, daughter, sister, friend, and psychiatrist. Ellie served as the first Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and as the Administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.  She obtained her Ph. D. from Yale University with a spe...

Today we’re getting under the hood of Komel Caruso a mother, daughter, sister, and the Chief Growth Officer and co-founder of HerMD. HerMD was inspired by her mother, who nearly lost her life due to repeated dismissals in the healthcare system. HerMD’s mission is to ensure patients are not invisible - that they are seen, heard, and given the time to express all of their healthcare concerns in a sh...

Celebrating two powerhouse women Lucy & Milly during Women's History Month who have overcome immense challenges, have now created their dream life and are now on a mission to help others do the same!  Milly's story is one that will leave you feeling inspired and awed. Despite facing some of life's toughest challenges, including addiction to drugs, alcohol, gambling, and food, an...

Celebrating Magaly Nagpal during Women's History Month a wife, mother, daughter, friend, advocate and supporter of diversity, equality, inclusion and social justice as a Spanish teacher.  Magaly was born in La Antigua Guatemala. An only child but grew up surrounded by the love and care of a large extended family. She was raised by a single mother from whom she learned the value of hard work,...

Celebrating Sola Davies during Women’s History Month a mother, daughter, sister, friend, women’s advocate, nurse practitioner, and entrepreneur. The early part of Sola’s life was spent in national service for her country, Nigeria. She did a year of National Service as a Nursing Officer in the State Civil Service following her undergraduate degree. She later moved into the General Administrative Ca...

Celebrating Amy Danielson during Women’s History Month a stepmother, daughter, sister, friend, creative, dancer, choreographer, teacher, and NGO entrepreneur. She is Head of Programming for Under the Sisterhood , Executive Director of Sistergood , a certified practitioner of the Compassion Key®, and Founder of SōlView. Amy received a Bachelor of Performing Arts with a major in Dance Performance. S...

Celebrating Becky Chidester during Women's History Month. Becky is a mother, daughter, sister, friend, women’s advocate, thought leader and healthcare marketing executive. Becky is a visionary leader.  During a journey that included founding and serving as CEO of Wunderman Thompson Health for more than a decade, she developed a particular interest and expertise in motivating action in the are...

Celebrating Tania Carpio during Women's History Month. Tania is a daughter, sister, friend, preschool teacher, creative, certified breathwork coach, and sound healer in training. Tania is passionate about helping people live their best lives and helping them feel welcomed, included, and taken care of. She believes in choosing kindness and in digging deep to discover who we are at our core in o...

Celebrating Kathalynn Turner Davis during Women's History Month. Kathalynn is a life coach, psychotherapist, certified Sedona Method coach, high performance specialist and workshop leader, as well as an actress and writer. Kathalynn has studied both Eastern and Western philosophies and teachings. She has traveled the globe to meet with many of the world-renowned teachers, swamis’ avatars. In...

Celebrating June Laffey during Women's History Month a sister, mother, Global Creative Leader, Executive Creative Coach; Trailblazer, Psychic Channel, and Founder & Owner of the TopiTopi Spiritual Retreat. Through her extraordinary career in advertising June has created and championed globally awarded ideas, chaired the top international health award shows, helped build creative reputatio...

Celebrating Laura Gemmell during Women’s History Month a current OB/GYN resident, and future REI fellow at Columbia University.  She grew up in Toronto and is a true Canadian at heart. She values her strong relationships with women and believes we should always strive to lift each other up.  She is fiercely passionate about providing excellent health care to women across all ages and backgrounds i...

Celebrating Isadora Capraro during Women's History Month a daughter, sister, friend, Argentinian and Italian artist, and an entrepreneur who owns her own art business. She currently resides in South Hampton NY. Isadora studied fine arts at Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her paintings play with the limits between figuration and abstraction, creating an...

Celebrating Mary Giuliani is a mother, daughter, sister, friend, two-time author (with her third book, “HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE NO ONE” set to publish this spring), celebrity caterer and entrepreneur. What happens when a celebrated "caterer to the stars" begins to REALLY ponder "what's it all about?" Mary Giuliani deconstructs her ever-evolving existential intern...

Celebrating Zulejha Kečo during Women's History Month. Zulejha is a daughter, sister, friend, ballerina at the National Theatre Sarajevo, a contemporary dancer with Balkan Dance Project- a platform which unites dancers and choreographers from the Balkan region and former Yugoslavia. She’s a dance teacher who is bringing contemporary dance to Bosnia and Herzegovina where this dance form is sti...

Celebrating Dr. Christine Bastl during Women's History Month.  Dr. Bastl is a mother, grandmother, sister, friend, women’s advocate, mentor, professor emeritus and practicing physician specializing in kidney disease at Temple University Hospital.    She was the first woman named Section Chief at Temple where she was Chief of Nephrology. She is a board certified nephrologist and as well in int...

Celebrating Brittany Gooden during Women's History Month. Brittany is a daughter, sister, auntie, friend, and filmmaker with 10+ years of working in TV, media, and advertising. For her directorial debut, she is investigating the death of her uncle, Izell Parrott who was found hanging in a tree, in a docu-series and podcast called Strange Bird.   As a multidisciplinary producer, her work with...

Celebrating Pooja Sinha during Women's History Month. Pooja is a mother, daughter, wife, people person, language coach for children and women, an erstwhile Corporate Leader, Women’s soft skill trainer, German educator,  an MBA (Finance), entrepreneur, and Founder of English with Pooja Sinha. She is currently engaged in mentoring children and women across India, the largest democracy in the wo...

Celebrating Betulia Machado-Erikkson during Women's History Month. Betulia is a mother, sister, friend, women’s advocate, nurse, expedition leader, entrepreneur, and now a student of shamanism. Born in Brazil, at the age of 14, Betulia was given away in marriage by her father. The marriage only lasted a few months teaching her to be a phoenix and rise from her ashes.  Not too long after she j...

Celebrating Zerline Goodman, and Brice and Zaya Rothenberg during Women's History Month. A mother, daughters, sisters, friends and women’s advocates.  Zerline is an attorney in Brooklyn where she's helped thousands of clients over the last 20 years buy and sell real estate. She recently merged her practice to form Dubno & Goodman PLLC. Brice is currently the copy lead at Whoop, a wea...

Celebrating Bserat Ghebremicael during Women's History Month. Bserat is a daughter, sister, friend, mobilizer, creator and disruptor.  She currently works at Google where she helps accelerate growth of small and medium-sized app and gaming businesses, and is also the Head of Experience for the Global Black Google Network, leading initiatives ranging from fundraising ~$1M for Black-led busines...

Today we’re celebrating Amina Zamani during Women's History Month a daughter, sister, friend, women’s advocate, TEDx speaker, neurolinguistics and peak performance coach.  As an executive coach and speaker she guides high potential executives and teams to achieve peak performance productivity, healthier communications, and emotional/spiritual well-being.  Using a unique coaching approach cons...

Celebrating Melanie Whitney during Women’s History Month. She has been a Communication Studies Professor for over a decade, teaching students how to mindfully communicate in their relationships. In 2018, she started the Institute For Empowerment, creating training and coaching programs for mindful living and leadership.  Melanie’s work has taken her work around the world – speaking on stages for T...

Celebrating Su Kwak during Women's History Month a mother, grandmother, sister, friend, women’s advocate, and a leading Asian-American artist who is esteemed for her atmospheric abstract landscapes. Kwak’s work is included in the permanent collections of the National Museum of  Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea, the Seoul Museum of art, the Busan Museum of Art, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum...