Cool Women with Hot Jobs 2006

 

ABC News Correspondent
Nancy Weiner

Leigh Griffin, Nuclear Medicine Technologist

AXA Financial Planner
Joy Jackson
Pinkey Jain, Founder of InSync Analytics
Hermoine Elisee, business consultant talks with student at the Career Fair
Becky Hoffman, Director of Program Operations,
NBC Universal, speaks with students
Heide Sacher, AVP Women's Market Group of AXA
Students meet Stephanie Sklar an online Producer with Nickelodeon
Architect Lindsay Smith
teaches students how to draw building plans
Kara Murphy, VP of Chilton Investment works with seniors to pick financial funds and describes her typical day
Susan Becker, VP of Corporate TaxDepartment at Loews Corporation presents on being an attorney with Helen Cantwell, Assistant U.S. District Attorney
Jane Mackie, VP of Marketing for Loews Hotels (below) works with a student on a marketing and advertising plan
Vera Stecher and
Cindy Pace of Pfizer
Students at the
Career Fair


The question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" is one of the oldest in the book for students of all ages. The 400 students at the all-girls' Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem got to dream big and learn first hand about all the wonderful opportunities available for them in the workplace today. On Friday, March 24 th over 70 cool women with hot jobs volunteered to inspire, educate and motivate our girls at the East Harlem and students from their sister schools in the Bronx and Queens. The event was organized by The Young Women's Leadership Foundation and sponsored by AXA Equitable.

"If you can see it, you can be it" is a motto that is prevalent in the halls of TYWLS located on 106 th street in East Harlem. "It is important for our students to meet and speak with women who are working in jobs they have only dreamed of. 100% of our graduates are accepted to college but most girls will be the first in their families to go to college. Seeing successful women in all career fields gives them something to aspire to and creates long lasting role models and mentors for our girls", said Kathleen Ponze, Principal of TYWLS.

We recruited women volunteers, who have each made a unique difference in the world and who wanted to give back to the next generation of career women. These notable women represent professions like doctors, nurses, research scientists, financiers, stock brokers, attorneys, advertising executives, ministers, entrepreneurs, journalists and more. Participating women represented the following companies:

ABC News
AXA-Equitable
AM Investment Partners
Avon
BBDO Advertising
Bank of America
Bernstein Global Wealth
Bronx Prep Charter School
Karen Bussen Events
Callahan and Company
Carroll, Guido & Groffman LLP
Chilton Investment Company
Constellar Capital
Consultants in Cardiology
Cosmo Girl!
DAS/Omnicom
Executive Health Exams
Fidelity Investments
Girl Scouts of Greater New York
Goldman Sachs
Harlem RBI
InSync Analytics
J.P. Morgan Chase
Alfred Knopf Publishing
KR Capital Advisors
Loews Corporation
NBC Universal
NYC Parks Foundation
New Line Cinemas
Nine to Five Consulting
Nickelodeon
Nursing Bound
Mercy College
Pfizer
Smith Barney
Smith-Miller & Hawkinson Architects
Time, Inc.
United States District Attorney's Office
Thelma Golden, Director of Studio Museum in Harlem receives thank you flowers for being keynote speaker
Ms. Thelma Golden, Director of Studio Museum in Harlem was the event's keynote speaker at The New York Academy of Medicine in the afternoon. Thelma spoke to student's about following their dream and spoke about teachers and books that made an impact on her life as a young student.

AXA Equitable believes strongly in the mission of the school and empowering young women to gain access to college and careers. In addition to sponsoring Career Day, the AXA Foundation, the charitable arm of AXA Equitable will award three students from TYWLS, East Harlem's Class of 2006 with a $2,000 scholarship for college through the AXA Achievement sm Scholarship Program.

YWL Foundation is very appreciative of AXA's support and wants to thank all the "cool women" who volunteered their time to share with our students!

 
Maria Magdalena Mejias, Director of Human Resources, Learning and Development for AXA-Equitable   A student visits with
a nurse at the career fair and listens to her heart
   
Mary Jo Iacovino,
AXA Equitable Financial Planner shares her
thoughts over lunch		 Seniors from East Harlem serenade the volunteers with a special song over lunch