Dr. Marisa Porges has been in the room with Barack Obama, interviewed Al Qaeda terrorists, and flown jets off aircraft carriers. She now leads an all girls school and her passion is imparting her wisdom on her students. Her take on how to raise the next generation of female leaders is eye opening. There is are plenty of nuggets of wisdom, not only for our female listeners, but our men also.
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Marisa Porges, PhD, author of What Girls Need: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women, is the eighth Head of School at The Baldwin School, a 130-year-old all-girls school outside of Philadelphia renowned for academic excellence and for preparing girls to be leaders and change-makers. Dr. Porges served in the Obama White House; was a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and the Council on Foreign Relations, where her research focused on counterterrorism; and served in the U.S. Navy as one of eight female aviators in an air wing of about two hundred. She lives in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, with her family.
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