As the world celebrates International Women’s Day on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, USC Marshall celebrates women through the accomplishments of its faculty, programs, alumni and students, not just during Women's History Month, but every day all year around.
Marshall celebrated the fifth annual ATHENA Women’s Entrepreneurship Summit with a well-attended in-person event March 3 at Town & Gown on the University Park Campus. Former CEO and Chairman of PepsiCo Indra Nooyi spoke to Marshall’s international MBAs on March 7. Marshall’s own International Women’s Day event will be held Thursday, March 31, bringing together thought leaders from a variety of fields. (Register here)
Women at Marshall lead by example. Noted scholars have published ground-breaking research that has moved the needle on topics such as gendered speech and gender discrimination. Marshall’s Department of Data Sciences and Operations (DSO), led by Professor Greys Sosic, is home to some of the field’s most noted statisticians, and is rapidly bringing more female scholars onboard.
Important gains are also being made on the student side. Marshall reached gender parity in its entering undergraduate class of 2025, hitting a milestone long seen as an important first step to increasing the number of women in the C-suite and in the board room. Marshall’s full-time MBA class of 2020 reached that milestone when it matriculated in 2018.
Marshall’s alumnae are engaged in bold investments in the future of Marshall. Cynthia van Eck ’86 along with her husband made a $5 million gift to fund the VanEck Digital Assets Initiative, which seeds a number of programs designed to keep Marshall students abreast of the latest developments in crypto-currencies, blockchain, and NFTs.
Women alumnae continue to break barriers across the board: Stephanie Wiggins became the first Black woman to run LA’s MetroLink and, as of last year, Metro. USC Trustee Carmen Nava was the first in her family to graduate from college, and went on to become a senior executive at AT&T. Accounting professor Alicia Yancy, is the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in managerial accounting from USC Leventhal. The list goes on.
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