Powerful Women!
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle is the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
in the administration of President Obama. Previously, she served as the
director of the White House Office of Health Reform., leading the
administration's efforts on health care issues.
Mellody
Hobson is the president of Ariel
Investments, LLC, a Chicago investment firm managing
over $3 billion in assets. It is also one of the largest African American-owned money management and mutual fund companies
in the United States. She is also the Chairwoman of
the Board of Trustees of Ariel
Mutual Funds. Hobson is a regular contributor on financial
issues to ABC's Good
Morning America and
a spokesperson for the annual Ariel/Schwab Black Investor Survey.
Anna Wintour, is the English-born
editor-in-chief of American Vogue, a position she has held since 1988. With her
trademark pageboy bob
haircut and sunglasses, Wintour has become an institution
throughout the fashion world, widely praised for her eye for fashion trends and
her support for younger designers. Her reportedly
aloof and demanding personality has earned her the nickname "Nuclear
Wintour".
Zainab Salbi is an Iraqi American writer, activist and social entrepreneur who
is co-founder and president of Washington-based Women
for Women International.
Oprah Winfrey is a mutli media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, The Oprah Show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.
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