Girl Power

Tampa Bay Chef, Chef Rosana Rivera, made Food Network history by being the very first Latina woman to ever 'Beat Bobby Flay' on December 26th, 2019. This win was not only groundbreaking, it was also incredibly bittersweet. Her first toe-to-toe challenge was against her husband and business partner, Chef Ricardo Castro, which she crushed with her better use of the first rounds secret ingredient, papaya. "I had no doubt she […]

OOOM Magazine published its fourth annual OOOM 100: THE WORLD'S MOST INSPIRING PEOPLE list, compiled by an international jury. The results are remarkable: No less than eight spots in this year's OOOM 100's top 10 are claimed by women. GRETA THUNBERG was voted the most inspiring person of 2019, who "grew into a symbol and role model for an entire generation, a generation that takes to the streets by the […]

Ava DuVernay, award-winning writer, director and producer, is set to receive the prestigious Television Showman of the Year from the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) Publicists, honoring her prolific career as a visionary television producer. The 57th Annual ICG Publicists Awards ceremony, which traditionally occurs the week leading up to the Academy Awards®, will be held in the International Ballroom of The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Friday, February […]

At an induction ceremony in New York City, Mary Ellen Carlyle, Senior Vice-President and General Manager of Dome Productions, became the first Canadian inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame, in recognition of her ground-breaking career in televised sports and the media industry. Carlyle was one of 10 sports broadcasting professionals and the only woman inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame for 2019. This year's additional inductees […]

Standard Motor Products, Inc. announces its new SMP 'Women in Auto Care' Scholarship. Running January 1 through March 31, 2020, the inaugural competition will present two female students with a $5,000 scholarship each. Students can enter by visiting SMPWIACScholarship.com, completing an online questionnaire, and submitting a recent photo of themselves. SMP's independent judges will evaluate all entries based on relevance, creativity, and thoughtfulness relating to the automotive industry. Winners will […]

Storytelling and innovation studio Al Jazeera Contrast, part of the digital division of Al Jazeera Media Network, announced today that Still Here will premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in the New Frontier program. The visceral experiences of over twelve formerly incarcerated women who have re-entered society are at the core of Still Here, which was conceived as an interactive audio, VR and AR experience by Al Jazeera Contrast […]

Bumble, the women-first social networking app with over 75 million users worldwide, today released a brand-new video featuring Emmy-winning Actress and Comedian Tiffany Haddish and Montrezl Harrell of the L.A. Clippers, which takes viewers on a behind-the-scenes look at two Bumble first dates as Haddish and Harrell give their humorous dating advice on the fly. In the "Play-By-Play" digital video, produced by ESPN CreativeWorks and airing on ESPN and Bumble […]

TIME names Greta Thunberg the 2019 Person of the Year. TIME Editor-in-Chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal writes, "Meaningful change rarely happens without the galvanizing force of influential individuals, and in 2019, the earth's existential crisis found one in Greta Thunberg.... Thunberg has become the biggest voice on the biggest issue facing the planet—and the avatar of a broader generational shift in our culture that is playing out everywhere from the […]