IOWA

Nikki Kettelkamp started her first business in second grade — making felt bookmarks and selling them from her desk at school. While she abandoned that first venture, she never lost the desire to have her own business selling beautiful things. Cedar Rapids Gazette 

Local community and business leaders will graduate next month from Integrity Integrated’s community leadership program, the Quad-City Leadership Academy. Quad-City Times 

NATIONAL

Stacey Abrams easily defeated Stacey Evans in the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial primary last week that attracted national attention. Now, Abrams will attempt to make history by becoming the nation’s first black female governor — and Georgia’s first woman governor — by winning the general election in November in a state that Republicans still dominate. NBC News 

Lupe Valdez, a lesbian Dallas County sheriff, won the Democratic nomination in the race to become the next governor of Texas. Now she must dethrone current Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. She is the first openly gay Latina candidate to win a nomination for governor from any party in Texas. The Lily

For the first time in the Miss America pageant’s history, its leadership teams will be headed by women, all of whom are former pageant winners. HuffPost 

The New York Stock Exchange is about to be run by a woman for the first time in its 226-year history. CNN Money 

Debra Perelman has been appointed the first female chief executive officer of Revlon, a company that’s majority owned by her billionaire father, Ronald Perelman. CNN Money 

In the wake of public scrutiny after the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs set up two programs to try to improve its image — 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses. Bloomberg