Cristi Hegranes has plenty of reasons to celebrate. This year, the nonprofit organization she founded, the Global Press Institute, marks its 10th anniversary. It’s been winning numerous awards, including a $1.25 million grant from the prestigious MacArthur Foundation. “It’s an exciting moment,” says Hegranes, who is dedicated to training female journalists. “It really marks our organization’s transition […]

Danielle Cohen knows a thing or two about persistence. “I always told my mom I was going to have a motorcycle one day,” she laughs. “My will was strong, and I finally got one.” It was riding motorcycles, in fact, that led Cohen to her current role as the producer and executive director of Urban […]

When Colette Brandenburg was growing up in Michigan, she remembers spending winters with her grandmother. It was during this season that her mother and father—an elementary school teacher and contractor, respectively—would go hunting, so off to grandmother’s house and The Nutcracker rehearsals the young ballet dancer would go. Brandenburg’s “very conservative” and “very English” grandmother […]

In this series, WeWork’s director of digital community selects a WeWork member to get to know better, sharing her fun findings with the rest of the community.  Helping others find their sense of style is an innate calling for Modnitsa Styling’s Dina Scherer. Incredibly curious as to how she started her own personal shopping and styling […]

Speaking from her office just over a month before the launch of her new business, Sarah Hamid sounds incredibly calm. “I am not stressed because we have our roadmap,” says the member of Berlin’s WeWork Sony Center. “We are aware that nothing will work exactly as expected, so we are mentally prepared. That said, it […]

The last thing Lisa Skeete Tatum tells me is “Now is the time.” This simple-sounding declaration is true to her inspiring nature: After more than a decade of being a venture capitalist, Skeete Tatum knew she was ready for her next big thing. The only problem was that she had no idea what that thing […]

When Agnieszka Burnett escaped Communist Poland in the late 1980s, she had no idea that experience would inspire her life’s work. After all, she was only a baby. She describes her parents as “risk takers” who had “all these dreams they didn’t see to be feasible at that time”—dreams relating to better opportunities for their […]

When Shama Zehra was told she shouldn’t step into jobs that are usually held by men in her native Pakistan, she simply rolled up her sleeves. Living in one of the garment capitals of the world, resources were abundant for starting a clothing business. So at just 16 years old, she launched her first company […]