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Nicole Miller is Managing Director of Biomimicry 3.8, the world’s leading bio-inspired consultancy.  The company was founded by women and is managed by women. Nicole took time out of her busy [...]

Entrepreneurs Sam Letscher and Isabel Benatar, just won $3000, taking second place for their startup at Northwestern University’s 2017 Summer Wildfire Demo Day pitch competition. Over the summer, [...]

Bunny Yan is Co-Founder and CEO of the Squirrelz, a company that has evolved from upcycling design, to an upcycling retail shop, to developer of an app to save unwanted materials and turn them [...]

Wendy Jaehn is the new and first Executive Director of the National Association of Women Business Owners’ Chicago Chapter, one of STWE’s partner organizations. She spoke about her career journey, [...]

Maria Macnab originally grew up in the country on a wheat farm in Wasco, Oregon.  She went to undergraduate school at University of Oregon and completed a B.A. in Psychology, then moved to [...]

Silos were a revolutionary innovation that allowed farmers to preserve and store crops from the growing season through winter and dry spells. The word evolved in the 19th century, originally [...]