Q&A With Fox Network’s Dagen McDowell
June 15, 2009
By Nancy Menefee Jackson
Dagen McDowell joined FOX Business Network (FBN) as an anchor in September 2007; she also hosts the weekly four-hour live call-in show “Your Questions, Your Money Live” on Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm. Read more »
School of Education Opens Doors
April 17, 2009
This fall, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland debuts its School of Education, which will offer programs at the baccalaureate, graduate and doctoral levels. Read more »
After Mastectomy, Now What?
Reconstructive surgery is considerably less painful after a mastectomy thanks to advances in pain control.
April 9, 2009
A woman who is diagnosed with breast cancer and will undergo a mastectomy faces a difficult decision during this tumultuous time: whether to have reconstructive surgery. Read more »
Veronica Eyenga of VBP Outsourcing
Determination Drives Success
April 2, 2009
Veronica Eyenga, president and CEO of VBP OutSourcing, started her business 11 years ago from her home. Now, she runs her full-service marketing and accounting firm for Very Busy People from a 5,500-square-foot office in Glen Burnie, Md. How did she do it – and how does she keep thriving in today’s unforgiving economic times? Read more »
SmartTalk Q&A: Jan Schaffer of J-Lab
February 23, 2009
Even though journalist Jan Schaffer was only 28 when she reached what many would consider the pinnacle of her profession — winning a Pulitzer Prize — she was just getting warmed up. Read more »
A Museum of Their Own
Founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
January 23, 2009
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay is the author of A Museum of Their Own, National Museum of Women in the Arts, a lively account of how she founded the museum, which opened in 1987 in Washington, D.C. Read more »
SmartTalk: Karen Mulhauser Having a Ball!
Organizing Inaugural Luncheon Honoring Michelle Obama Takes Teamwork
January 15, 2009
As part of The People’s Inaugural Gala Weekend and Ball celebrating Barack Obama’s historic rise to the U.S. presidency, a Women’s Leadership Luncheon honoring Michelle Obama takes place on Saturday, Jan. 17 at 1 p.m. at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C. A round-table conversation, moderated by WJLA/ABC7 News Anchor Maureen Bunyan, features Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky(D-IL) as Mistress of Ceremonies and both Ms. Magazine Founder Gloria Steinem and Civil Rights Activist Dorothy Height as panelists. We asked Karen Mulhauser, who worked on the committee organizing this event, to share with us her experiences and her event-planning insights. Mulhauser is a veteran of several political campaigns, former director of NARAL and owner of a consulting business. Read more »
SmartTalk Q&A: Danitra Bell
McDonald's Franchisee Follows in Parents' Footsteps
November 14, 2008
For Danitra Bell, McDonald’s is a family business. To prepare for becoming a new franchisee, she learned from the best — her mom and dad. Read more »
SmartTalk: Ellen Moore
COO of Carton Donofrio Partners
October 22, 2008
Ellen Moore recently assumed the position of chief operating officer for what has been recognized as the fastest-growing marketing communications agency in Baltimore — the same firm that earlier this year received 15 ADDY Awards from the Advertising Association of Baltimore and is behind the Maryland Science Center’s “Give Them Something Smarter To Do” campaign. Read more »
SmartTalk: Lisa Mathews
Co-founder of the Kid-oriented Rock Band Milkshake
October 9, 2008
“Kids, no less than grownups, deserve great rock music they can call their own.”
These are the words of Lisa Mathews, who spent most of the 1990s kicking around the indie music scene in the critically acclaimed, Baltimore-based rock group Love Riot. Nowadays, six years after becoming a parent and then co-founding Milkshake with guitarist Mikel Gehl, Mathews’ vocals are being heard regularly on kids’ radio stations.
