The Disruptors Bringing Gender Parity to the Fifth Largest Legislative Body in America In the latest Disruptors column, Milk spoke with Karen Giannuzzi about her success disrupting the male dominated Greenwich, Connecticut town council. Hi Karen, can you start be sharing a little
Power Men exert their power in more and less subtle ways. This week we were reminded of the less subtle. The conversations and research that led to the founding of Milk
Do As I Say, Not As I Do Like many individuals who, post election, started sharing their political views in places and ways they never had before, companies, too, started speaking out. It seems that the old rules
To Not Figuring It Out at Thirty When I turned 30 a few weeks ago, one of the last of my group of friends, I debated how to mark the occasion. Naturally I had spent the months
election 2016 I'm Taking It Personally This Election You can't take it so personally, they say. But I am. This isn't a political post - but that would be ok if it was. Today, Milk is launching a
conversations What Is The State of Women? I joined 5,000 women in Washington, D.C. for the first ever White House Summit on the United State of Women this week. And I left the historic event
entrepreneurship The Thing About Humility I recently attended a panel discussion on media entrepreneurship. As many panels do, they began by asking each person to introduce themselves. The first founder, a man, explained he knew
change Why I'm Grateful I Was Laid Off From My First Job I’m not sure I ever sought out stability. In fact, times when I felt stable were typically when I made a change. When something felt accessible, I walked in
friendship Our Friends, Ourselves In last weekend’s New York Times Sunday Review, a writer dug into the question of female friendship. Specifically, she asked, why do women compete with each other? “Women compete,
mothers Where Were You At 29? An interview with mom. I’m 29, tell me about what your life was like when you were my age. When I was 29, I was beginning my 3rd year
change What We Seek I first began to notice it during business school. Although women remain a minority in MBA programs, the women I became surrounded by were ambitious, smart, globally minded and investing
