By Aimee Garn
Cynthia Remec’s ingenious concept for BoardAssist grew out of a life-changing experience: her survival of a near fatal car accident ten years ago. At the time she was the principal of Cynthia Remec Associates, an executive search firm that provided high impact talent for Wall Street investment banking [...]
Woman Around Town: Cynthia Remec of BoardAssist
By Robin Weaver
Sitting in the warm, wood-paneled living room of Kati Marton’s apartment overlooking Central Park, it’s hard to imagine the fascinating and, at times, courageous journey that shaped her life. Born in Cold War Budapest to Ilona and Endre Marton, correspondents for the UPI and AP respectively, Kati’s [...]
By Alix Cohen
Tracy Beckerman sang her last telegram, stripped off the sweaty gorilla suit, and went to work in the medium for which she went to college. She rose from creating on air promotions for Lifetime Television, which she joined in 1987, “a perfect job for somebody with a really [...]
By Marie Hansen Lehmann
Sarah Grace McCandless is the author of two gorgeously nostalgic and poignant novels about adolescence, Grosse Pointe Girl and The Girl I Wanted to Be. She runs a monthly column CRUSH on Forces of Geek and can sometimes be seen reading her teenage diary entries for Mortified. [...]
By Charlene Giannetti
Edes Gilbert spent fifteen years as headmistress of the prestigious Spence School, a community that includes many famous and influential graduates and parents. She has never forgotten, however, where she started out—teaching third grade in a public school. Since her retirement in 1998, Gilbert has dedicated herself to [...]
By Charlene Giannetti
“I really do describe my career basically as survival,” says Leslie Tcheyan, affectionately called “che” by those who know her. “It’s really the obstacles that have forced me to constantly be creative, constantly come up with new things.”
Those “things” are beautiful pieces of jewelry designed by Leslie and [...]
By Charlene Giannetti
Things I learned after one month on grand jury duty:
Female assistant D.A.’s wear black or gray suits, no stockings even in freezing weather, and killer stiletto heels.
Despite falling crime rates in New York, grand juries are still very busy.
Having lots of games on your iPhone or BlackBerry helps [...]
By Robin Weaver
It’s hard to imagine but when Linda Fairstein joined the Manhattan District Attorney’s (”D.A.’s”) office in 1972, she was the only woman in a class of 12 Assistant D.A.s. Frank Hogan, the Manhattan D.A. at the time, told Linda that he” respected her enormously, but didn’t [...]
By Laura Lanz-Frolio
Randi Rahm, couturier to the stars, is an artist in every sense of the word. A trained concert pianist and art historian, she applies those skills to her art of designing and making clothes. And after visiting her two-story midtown studio, it’s hard to argue that Rahm does [...]
By Michal Tziyon
When Josie Oppenheim was a little girl she never wanted to go to sleep. Young Josie wanted to stay up and listen to her family talk. Her great aunt was Stella Adler, a daughter of the Adler Yiddish Theater family, the actress and acting teacher who founded the [...]
