Brewers Of Change

Our BREWERS OF CHANGE™ column puts a celebratory spotlight on women leaders who are creating social impact and propelling gender equity through their organizations and businesses in their respective industries. They are Women You Should Know whose missions are greater than their companies and brands.

Killer of Cancer, Slayer of Viruses: The Many Medicines Of Nobel Prize Laureate Gertrude Elion

Dale DeBakcsyApril 15, 2020

Generally, our experience of a particular medicine is as a great faceless thing the name of which we don't know until we desperately need it, and the creation ...

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The Experimentalist: The Tale Of Mary Putnam Jacobi Vs. Proper Victorian Medicine

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 18, 2020

The Nineteenth century boasts a rich roster of medical women, any one of whom is the stuff of heroes: the trailblazing Blackwell sisters, the cautious Elizabet...

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Film Review: ‘The Woman Who Loves Giraffes’, The Story Of Pioneer Wildlife Researcher Anne Innis Dagg

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 5, 2020

When Anne Innis headed into the Transvaal in 1956, there were no rules or set procedures for how to observe animal behavior in the wild, let alone how to do s...

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“Walk In My Boots!” Feminist Plumber Pens Powerful Essay On Being A Woman In Construction Trade

Guest ContributorJanuary 9, 2020

By Judaline Cassidy - Here’s the question men at a construction site never get: Are you qualified?Women get asked this every day of every job. So, allow me...

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Baby Liberty: 18-Month-Old Has Portrayed 137 Influential Women In Inspiring Photography Project

wyskDecember 3, 2019

Meet Liberty Jaine, a baby girl who has spent the first 18 months of her life paying visual tribute to women everyone should know through a photography project...

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The Path Of Most Resistance: Sophia Jex-Blake And The Fight For Women’s Medical Education

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 13, 2019

She had founded first England and then Scotland's first medical school for women, and been instrumental in the passing of the Medical Act that allowed women to...

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14-Year-Old Inventor, Kara Fan, Named ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’ For Her Nano-Silver Liquid Bandage

wyskNovember 5, 2019

14-year-old Kara Fan was just named the winner of the 2019 3M Young Scientist Challenge, an annual innovation competition hosted in partnership with Discovery ...

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Food’s Bright Future: Leah Garcés And The Long Struggle To Replace Factory Farming

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 9, 2019

Vegans and meat consumers do not typically enter into common cause. To the meat eater, vegans are bleeding heart, elitist scolds, and to the vegan, meat consu...

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Dream Big Mural Celebrates Teen Changemaker And Aspiring Astronaut Taylor Richardson

wyskSeptember 12, 2019

Wow! Wow! Wow! This inspiring mural on the Upper Eastside of Jacksonville, Florida was created by some incredible students from James Weldon Johnson, a Duval C...

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