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Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award
A HUMANITARIAN FOR THE AGES Though she committed to donating the entirety of her holdings to charity when she joined the elite Giving Pledge in 2010, Lyda Hill of the Junior League of…
Mary Harriman Enters the Women’s Hall of Fame!
This athlete became a world class figure skater after overcoming polio. This woman promised her dying sister she would help find a way to eradicate breast cancer. This dance entrepreneur’s…
What Does Ginger Rogers Have to Do with Women’s Equality?
August 26th is Women’s Equality Day in the United States, and Susan Danish shares some of her thoughts on this historic day at the Huffington Post.
JL Interview Exclusive: Tamara Ashford
TAMARA ASHFORD KEEPS COOL WHILE ADJUDICATING TAX DISPUTES FROM THE BENCH A 15-year veteran of the Junior League of Northern Virginia and a member of AJLI’s Governance Committee from 2011…
Consider The Impact
AJLI Executive Director Susan E. Danish wrote about the history of women’s organizations for “Contemporary Perspective,” a column that appears in the Spring 2015 issue of A Different Point of…
Florence Shapiro: Her service to Texas began as a volunteer
This is the fifth in a series of five stories during National Women’s History Month 2015 about Junior League members who have made a very visible mark on their communities…
Sunday is International Women’s Day
Sunday is International Women’s Day. It’s a great day to reflect on the role that we as women can play in creating a better world for everyone. For the last…
How was your Valentine’s Day?
(The following appeared on The Huffington Post on Feb. 17, 2015) I received my Valentine’s Day gift in Guatemala City from an elderly woman living in a nursing home in…
The leaders we lost in 2014
Sometimes leadership happens quietly, behind the scenes. Sometimes it’s big and bold. In 2014, we lost powerful women of both kinds. Some were blazing stars of the stage and screen…
In case you missed it…
November 25th was International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Missed it? Maybe that’s not surprising. A Google search on the name results in only 312,000 hits, a…