2019 Women of Influence: Dr. Angela Fiege
Dr. Angela Fiege founded Rachael’s First Week after her daughter died from a traumatic brain injury the day after arriving at Indiana University in Bloomington for her freshman year.
Dr. Angela Fiege founded Rachael’s First Week after her daughter died from a traumatic brain injury the day after arriving at Indiana University in Bloomington for her freshman year.
Leslie Craig Henderzahs, who joined the firm 27 years ago, recently was inducted as president of the 10,000-member Indiana State Bar Association.
Toni Hickey has been an intellectual property lawyer at Cummins for seven years and now serves as the company’s top lawyer for IP, overseeing a team responsible for developing its comprehensive intellectual property strategy.
As superintendent of IPS, Aleesia Johnson’s charge is to lead the district in pursuit of its vision to be a family of excellent schools where all students have the opportunity to succeed and the power to create their own future.
NiCole Keith is a professor of kinesiology at IUPUI and researcher and investigator at the Regenstrief Institute that helped develop a fitness program for Indianapolis Public Schools that puts IUPUI kinesiology students to work as coaches, trainers and role models for residents of IPS neighborhoods.
As dean of the IU Kelley School of Business, Idie Kesner oversees more than 30 degree programs, nearly 12,000 students, about 700 faculty and staff members and a global alumni network of nearly 117,000.
Three years into her tenure as president and CEO of EmployIndy, Angela Carr Klitzsch has attracted more than $10 million in philanthropic funds for new programs and launched a series of initiatives focused on everything from summer youth employment and job readiness to work-based learning and talent referral networks.
Kristin Kohn opened Silver in the City in Mass Ave in 2000 and runs a second store in Carmel as well. She’s also a founding member of the Mass Ave Merchants Association.
Amy Levander—the chairwoman of Indianapolis law firm Krieg DeVault’s Government Affairs and Public Advocacy Practice Group—is a founding board member and the current executive director of Hoosier Women Forward, a leadership training program for Democrats.
Kate Maxwell is the chief engineer for product support at Raytheon Indianapolis and the brain child of the company’s Intelligence, Information and Services Innovation Center, an organization launched in 2017 that empowers employees to get creative no matter where they are assigned.
Janet McCabe teaches environmental law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, oversees the Prepared for Environmental Change Grand Challenge, and is director of the IU Environmental Resilience Institute.
Hannah Ott and partner George Tikijian sold Tikijian Associates to Cushman & Wakefield in late 2018 and now co-lead its seven-member Indiana Multifamily Team.
Darcey Palmer-Shultz has led Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana to become one of the organization’s top affiliates in the country.
Susana Rivera-Mills oversees all seven of the university’s academic colleges, plus the Graduate School, University College and Honors College.
Marisol Sanchez’s three-person legal department is responsible for all nine Endress+Hauser affiliates in the United States, plus affiliates in Canada and Mexico.
Kristin Sherman joined VMS as CFO in 2016, and a year later added oversight of all the firm’s support functions—everything from legal and IT to compliance and HR.
Heather Wilson is responsible for ensuring that the law firm continues to thrive and grows its market share in Indianapolis.
A national leader in the way congregations communicate, Verity Jones brings a wealth of pastoral experience to CTS.