Julia Linden and Andrea Larez, two second-year Northeastern students, are tired of the gender inequities that still plague the music industry. Working with the national nonprofit Women in Music, they hope to change the industry for the...
Temidola Ikomi, a 2017 graduate of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and co-founder of an African-inspired fashion brand in Nigeria, won a 2022 Innovator Award, presented by Northeastern’s Women Who Empower.
Natasha Shazana, Class of 2013, quit her private equity job in New York City to build a new empowering bra brand in Malaysia, her home country. She was recognized with a 2022 Innovator Award, presented by Northeastern’s Women Who...
Cynthia Orofo, a doctoral degree candidate at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and founder of the Culture Care Collective, won a 2022 Innovator Award in the graduate student category.
How the 2016 Northeastern University graduate,who lives in the Boston area, came to be one of the most listened-to people on crypto and blockchain tech is complicated. But it started in the past year, when the field became impossible to...
Twenty-two is the lucky number for recipients of the 2022 Innovator Awards, given out by the Northeastern’s Women Who Empower platform. A panel of judges selected 22 female honorees, who will receive a total of $220,000 in cash prizes, with first-place winners taking home $22,000 each in the award program’s second year.
Lilly Wilcox, who will travel to the European nation in September to teach English as part of the U.S. Fulbright Student Program, hopes to immerse herself in the community and engage in a cultural exchange with her students during her nine-month teaching...
Nonnie S. Burnes, a Northeastern law graduate who became a Massachusetts Superior Court judge and university trustee, worked in the final year of her life to develop a home for social causes whose leaders will seek to make it the preeminent center for developing...
“When you help someone else succeed, then you’re a leader,” said Asma Khan, chef and owner of the London-based Indian restaurant, Darjeeling Express, during a Women Who Empower event hosted at Northeastern’s London campus on Tuesday. “Real achievement comes when you’ve changed someone’s life for the better.”