Rethinking Failure: Marie Wilson at TEDxBarnardCollege

The Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College was proud to host a diverse and talented line up of speakers who shared their stories of resilience and failure.

An advocate of women's leadership for more than 30 years, Marie Wilson is founder and President of The White House Project, creator of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work ® Day and author of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World (Viking 2004). In 1998, Wilson founded The White House Project in order to build a richly diverse, genuinely representative democracy.

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