Meet the Baltimore area’s leading voices in business, activism, research and more. Look for the 25 Women to Watch in a special magazine supplement in some editions of The Sun on Sunday, Oct. 14. The women will be honored at a celebration at the Baltimore Museum of Art on Oct. 11. Vanessa E. Atterbeary...
The Baltimore Sun has been selecting Women to Watch for several years. Here's what nine of them have been up to in the years since they were honored.
When real estate agent Bev Smith began looking for a networking group around 12 years ago, the search was intimidating. Some groups had strict rules or were too exclusive — inviting only one woman of one profession per group — while others didn’t focus enough on building personal relationships....
Call it #AnnapolisToo. This was the year that sexual harassment emerged from the shadows in the state capital, where legislators passed new laws to combat it even as they investigated allegations of misconduct against one of their own. Neither the legislation nor the investigation might have happened,...
It’s become known as the Mike Pence rule, but some men see it as a way of protecting themselves from potential sexual harassment accusations. The vice president never eats alone with a woman other than his wife, according to a Washington Post article last year, and he won’t attend events featuring...
We’re all a weird mix of nature and nurture. The lives we forge for ourselves owe something to our environments and something to a grit we were seemingly born with. Liz Murray’s transformation from homeless teenager sleeping in hallways in the Bronx to best-selling author, Ivy League graduate and...
Meet the Baltimore area’s most intriguing movers and shakers of 2017. Look for the 25 Women to Watch in a special magazine supplement in some editions of The Sun on Sunday, Oct. 8. Saida Agostini 35, chief operating officer of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture Saida Agostini isn’t very handy with a...
The Baltimore Sun's 2017 Women to Watch event at the Baltimore Museum of Art was held to celebrate 25 female newsmakers, thought leaders and change agents shaping the Baltimore area. Read more about the women here | See photos from the event here.
The Baltimore Sun held its second annual Women to Watch networking event in celebration of the special magazine highlighting the 25 most intriguing and inspiring women in the Baltimore area. Honerees and others influential women gathered at the Baltimore Museum of Art and enjoyed a keynote speech...
Meet the Baltimore area’s most compelling leaders, thinkers and doers in 2016. Jan Baum 49, executive director, J. Baum Associates + 3D Innovation Institute The “black sheep” of her family, Jan Baum earned degrees in metal working and started out making jewelry and teaching. But that artsy background...
They're still making news: We checked back in with some of The Baltimore Sun's Women to Watch from previous years. Laura Gamble 53, regional president, Greater Maryland, PNC Bank; chair, Baltimore Community Foundation Last year’s unrest presented Laura Gamble and PNC with a challenge: helping Baltimore...
Behind the scenes at the photo shoot for the power suits feature in the Women to Watch special section of The Baltimore Sun. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun video)
About the shoot: Shot on location by Lloyd Fox of The Baltimore Sun at Planit, 1414 Key Highway No. 100, South Baltimore, planitagency.com. Styled and produced by John-John Williams IV of The Baltimore Sun. Art direction by Leeann Adams. Check out a behind-the-scenes video from the shoot. Models:...
Women have made great strides in the workplace during the last several decades. But there are still gaps to be filled when it comes to equal pay, distribution of child care and incorporating women in senior-level positions. Here's a look at women at work, by the numbers. Educational attainment ...
The night after the Democratic party chose Hillary Clinton as its presidential nominee, I tried to describe the historic nature of it all to my nearly-4-year-old daughter as I tucked her in. I started strong, gleefully announcing that, for the first time, a major political party was putting forth...
When he realized the refrigerator at his tech start-up was always being cleaned out by the same employee, a woman, Mike Subelsky told her to stop and took on the task himself. It was perhaps a small gesture to guard against workers falling into “traditional” male or female roles. But the founder...
Maryland’s female politicians were shattering glass ceilings decades ago, putting the state in the vanguard of electing women to federal office. But now, as Hillary Clinton makes history as a major party’s first female presidential candidate, progress has stalled in a place that once led the way...
Somewhere at the intersection of her gender (female) and her sexual orientation (lesbian) Jennifer Eden found herself in danger of falling through the cracks. When the 27-year-old Baltimorean went to a local clinic for an HIV test, clinicians assumed she was heterosexual. They asked if she uses...
We asked several prominent women in the Baltimore area five questions ranging from politics to mentoring to mistakes made in life. (Kevin Richardson/Baltimore Sun)
The Baltimore Sun canvassed readers, sources and leaders to determine the area’s most intriguing movers and shakers of 2014. Here's our list: Keshia M. Pollack 35, associate professor of health and policy and management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Keshia Pollack spends a...
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake 44, mayor of Baltimore Perhaps no Baltimore woman is watched more than Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. But while she’s seen on national television appearances, Rawlings-Blake says she’s watching Baltimore’s bottom line. She slashed $300 million from the city’s long-term...
For the second year, the Sun Magazine has chosen 50 women whose achievements and commitment stand out, but editor Anne Tallent said it could easily have been twice that many.
The Baltimore Sun's 50 women to watch hail from fields including arts, government, business, law, health, nonprofits and education. Check out the most intriguing, powerful and memorable personalities making an impact on the Baltimore region. (They are presented in no meaningful order.) • Read Q&As...
What's the hardest lesson you've learned so far?"To be OK with making myself vulnerable in order to make the change that I know is important." What's a fact about yourself that will surprise people?"I get my makeup tips from RuPaul. I watch his 'Drag Race' show in freeze frame so I can get good...
What was the hardest lesson you've learned so far?"That trust is precious and is not found easily."What's a fact about yourself that will surprise people?"My sense of humor and the imitations I do."What do you do to relax?"I read, walk, and spend time with my husband."Your (other) dream job would...