On August 2, 2020, Larissa von Planta packed up her life in Beirut, where she had worked as a sustainable fashion designer for five years. Beirut’s economic situation had worsened since she had arrived in 2015, causing many of her friends to leave the city. After von Planta’s mother died in May of the same …
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Picture: (From left) Co-founder of Caring Moms, Umesh Narasimaiah; Founder of Caring Moms, Shera Ann Bosco and Chief of Operations, Melissa Praveen. (Shera Ann Bosco pic) PETALING JAYA: When Major Shera Ann Bosco of the Malaysian Armed Forces launched her Caring Moms platform on Facebook in April 2016, little did she know that she would …
Andi Barness-Rubin demonstrates the Cart Safe liner she developed last year to limit shoppers’ contact with unsanitized shopping carts.(Cronkite News) For Andi Barness-Rubin, the COVID-19 pandemic led to invention. The Scottsdale woman created a recyclable shopping cart liner to protect people from the germs and grime that cling to carts. Barness-Rubin, who started Cart Safe in …
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Paige Tucker’s new Largo ‘excelerator,’ the Breakthrough, is designed to foster female entrepreneurs. Paige Tucker, 31, of St. Petersburg, runs the Breakthrough, a membership-based entrepreneurial accelerator for women in Largo. Tucker opened the space with the intention of providing women with the training, marketing and professional development skills they need to grow their small business. [ …
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Picture: Dipali Goenka (left) with her daughter Radhika and husband, Balkrishan Goenka, at Wimbledon in 2018. One of only 3.7% female CEOs and managing directors of NSE-listed companies in India (2019), Dipali is also the lone woman on the eight-member council of the Welspun Group. Dipali Goenka believes that one should “never let a crisis …
