Thomas Connolly and Lindsay Chastain have opened the Dandy Lion in the Ped Mall in Iowa City. Corridor Business Journal 

Two weeks after graduating from the University of Iowa, 22-year-old Valentina Carrero didn’t throw a party or begin clocking in at a desk job. She bought a restaurant. Corridor Business Journal 

Kimberly Weiner Greene, a native of Sioux City, was promoted to full professor and named Faculty of the Year for the School of Education at Brandman University in Irvine, Calif. Sioux City Journal 

Cat Cantrill calls herself “a walking permission slip.” Cantrill owns Vitality Fitness and Dance, a burlesque dance studio in Cedar Rapids. There, she works to help women of all ages, shapes and body sizes to gain confidence through the art of burlesque dance. Cedar Rapids Gazette 

Jessi Janorschke was named the the 2018 Chirosushi Rising Star at the Chirosushi Summit, an international chiropractic summit in Las Vegas. Ames Tribune

NATION/WORLD

The U.S. has been ranked in the top 10 most dangerous countries for women, making it the only Western nation to be named among the world’s worst guarantors of female rights and safety.Newsweek