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    Interview with Opa Owiye Johnson, Chief of Staff at GirlTrek Inc.

    • February 16, 2021
    Join our Manager of League Programs, Emma Briggs, for an interview with Opa Owiye Johnson, Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee at the Junior League of Lexington, KY and Chief…
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      Reflections of Monica Kaufman Pearson

      • February 1, 2018
      Monica Kaufman Pearson is quick to tell to you that she was not the first black member of The Junior League of Atlanta. She was the second, and in the…
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        What would Dr. King say?

        • February 14, 2017
        It is particularly fitting that the national holiday celebrating the life and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. follows so soon after the end of a tumultuous year of…
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        JL Interview Exclusive: Tamara Ashford

        • July 22, 2015
        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…
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          The leaders we lost in 2014

          • January 28, 2015
          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…
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