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Julie Smolyansky: Youngest-Ever CEO of a Publicly-Held Company
Starting her life in soviet Kiev, Lifeway Foods CEO Julie Smolyansky's mother opened Chicago's first Eastern European deli on Devon where she introduced the city to Nutella. Meanwhile, Julie's father first began making kefir in the family basem...
Jennifer Holmgren: Turning Pollution Into Power
A self-professed geek, Dr. Jennifer Holmgren was a part of the team that produced a ground-breaking non-petroleum based fuel that allowed a fighter jet to break the sound barrier. As CEO of LanzaTech, Jennifer leads the organization in producin...
Sol Flores: “The Language of Hustle”
Sol Flores, CEO, Knight Impact Partners, joins Maria Doughty to discuss her Puerto Rican roots, founding La Casa Norte, an organization dedicated to helping families escape homelessness, and her journey to serving as Deputy Governor for Health ...
Vicky Kalogera: The Science of The Stars
From a small town in Greece, Vicky Kalogera escaped poverty through education, becoming a leading member of the LIGO Collaboration that observed gravitational waves in 2015, and a leading theorist in the study of gravitational waves: “A new way...
Sara Sirotzky: From Lima to Chicago Legend
In Lima Peru, a young woman by the name of Sara Sirotzky responded to an ad seeking to hire an individual who spoke some English. Little did Sara know that this opportunity would take her and her young son almost four thousand miles away to Chi...