Regina Wilson
FDNY Firefighter
Author, Speaker and Entrepreneur
Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Cofounder & Chief Medical Officer, Carrot Fertility
Asima Ahmad
Kim
Cattrall
Golden Globe-Winning Actress
Having purpose, I think, brings fulfillment…It also brings this incredible excitement [when you’re] still learning [about your craft] and what you love to do.”
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Founder, #1000BlackGirlBooks
Marley Dias
FDNY Firefighter
Regina Wilson
Golden Globe-Winning Actress
Kim Cattrall
Golden Globe-Winning Actress
Kim Cattrall
What people think about you is not your business. Worry about what’s going to uplift you. Stay with people that are on your side who will build you up to your greatness.”
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Regina
Wilson
FDNY Firefighter
Marley
Dias
Founder, #1000BlackGirlBooks
Infertility is a medical diagnosis…It needs to be covered. When we thought about the barriers to access of care, the financial piece came up over and over again—that’s how we started Carrot Fertility.”
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Asima
Ahmad
Cofounder & Chief Medical Officer, Carrot Fertility
Reading has given me the power…to give voice to issues of inequity. When we deprive children of diverse stories, we deprive them of this ability to form hope, build these conversations and use their voice for change.”
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I want to recruit more professional troublemakers…[because] we’re all waiting on Superman to save the day when we all have red capes. Pull your red cape out and use it in the room you’re in.”
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Samantha
Bee
Writer & Producer
I want to use my voice to try to summon the power of women over 40 to take back the universe.”
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We should be sharing bravely and fearlessly about how we get paid, how we get treated, how we solve a problem, how we show up—and then support one another.”
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Oksana
Masters
Paralympian
I came here [from Ukraine] with scars. That story was already written for me…sports taught me I can rewrite my own story and I get to choose…what I want to become.”
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Tiffany
Haddish
Emmy and Grammy Award-Winning Comedian, Actress and Producer
[Being] in the foster care system…with my clothes in trash bags [felt] like I was garbage getting moved from place to place…My goal [at the She Ready Foundation] is to make these children feel like actual people.”
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Writer & Producer
Samantha Bee
Chief People Officer, UKG
Pat Wadors
Paralympian
Oksana Masters
Emmy and Grammy Award-Winning Comedian, Actress and Producer
Tiffany Haddish
Founder, Girls Who Code and Founder & CEO, Moms First
Reshma Saujani
Emmy and Grammy Award-Winning Comedian, Actress and Producer
Tiffany Haddish
Paralympian
Oksana Masters
Chief People Officer, UKG
Pat Wadors
Pat
Wadors
Chief People Officer, UKG
Author, Speaker and Entrepreneur
Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Luvvie
Ajayi Jones
Author, Speaker and Entrepreneur
Reshma
Saujani
Founder, Girls Who Code and Founder & CEO, Moms First
Both at Girls Who Code and Moms First, we have pay transparency in every job. We show the [salary] band. It reduces the amount of inequality.”
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Event attendees connect during a networking session at the conclusion of the 2023 Forbes Power Women’s Summit.