Women of Influence

For Dawn Martinez Oropeza, recalling how her father was stripped of his cultural identity drives her to make sure that doesn’t happen to 600 middle and high school students her organization mentors in Des Moines …

Collaborative, progressive, energetic, hardworking. Complimentary adjectives all, and difficult to beat after a 16-year political career that has followed a guiding principle that you can’t please all of the people all of the time.

Carlisle …

Eileen Wixted tells her staff to make friends wherever they go, whether they are at the McDonald’s drive-thru or navigating the security check at an airport. “It will enrich your life because a rich, rewarding …

Sara Kurovski believes she’s where she is today because of key moments in her life — specifically, those moments when someone believed in her.

She remembers one person in particular: David Maxwell, a former teacher …

Whenever someone tells Katie Roth, “Gee, I’d love to own my own business,” Roth thinks, “You want to own it, but you don’t want to run it.” 

In other words, running your own small business …

Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds wasn’t the girl in seventh grade who one day aspired to run for office. However, throughout her career, Reynolds learned that in order to be a change agent, involvement is …

Kathryn Kunert is not one of those executives who sat down and mapped out a 40-year plan for their careers. She basically got her degree in public administration and set out to work hard. Her …

Perhaps not surprisingly, Mashal Husain considers herself a citizen of the world. She was born in Karachi, Pakistan, but moved around a lot as her father followed his job as an employee of an American …