2020 Women of Influence: Virginia Booth Womack
Virginia Booth Womack is one of the nation’s leading advocates for increased participation of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.
Virginia Booth Womack is one of the nation’s leading advocates for increased participation of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.
President Herd Strategies For Denise Herd, the path to business ownership wound its way through the theater, McDonald’s and Indiana Black Expo’s Summer Celebration. And her journey blazed a trail for other black public relations professionals in Indianapolis. “I have been so blessed throughout my whole career,” said Herd, president of consulting firm Herd Strategies. […]
“I really lead with my heart. I want our people to feel safe, have the tools they need and know they are appreciated,” Karen Alter says.
Aylin Bartlett leads a $6 billion enterprise within Corteva that has 350 employees in 25 countries.
Christine Birch has tackled some tough issues at Taft. including championing a plan that eliminated the traditional two-class partnership structure in favor of a single class of ownership.
Bridget Boyle helped found Roche’s Women’s Leadership Initiative and is using it as the foundation for a broader diversity and inclusion effort.
Despite serving as an administrator, “I think I am most proud that … I have been able to continue to advocate from the physician perspective,” Dr. Elaine Cox says.
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.