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TheGrio’s 100 Women

Franchesca Ramsey (courtesy of Four Square)

theGrio's 100: Franchesca Ramsey, 'Girls Say' she is a sensation

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Wanda Butts

theGrio's 100: Wanda Butts, turning tragedy into life-saving hope

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theGRIO'S 100 - Wanda Butts turned unspeakable tragedy into hope for thousands of Ohio children and their families...
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Aprille Ericsson

theGrio’s 100: Aprille Ericsson, history making engineer from Brooklyn

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theGRIO's 100 - Born and raised in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., Aprille Ericsson is the first African-American and the first woman to receive a PhD in mechanical engineering at Howard University...
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Kat Calvin (Courtesy Kat Calvin)

theGrio's 100: Kat Calvin, founder of 'Black Girls Hack'

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theGRIO's 100 - Kat Calvin is the founder of 'Black Girls Hack', the country’s first all-black female hack-a-thon.
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Designer Laura Smalls

theGrio’s 100: Laura Smalls, designer who dresses the first lady

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theGRIO's 100 - Michelle Obama has brought national attention to black designer Laura Smalls, who is known among the fashionable set for lovely clothing that is feminine and tailored...
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Nefertiti and Emily, Grio's 100

theGrio's 100: Nefertiti Martin and Emily Carpenter's girl power

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theGRIO's 100 - Emily Carpenter embodies the best spirit of her generation...
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Valeisha Butterfield-Jones attends the 2013 BET Networks Inaugural Gala at Smithsonian National Museum Of American History on January 21, 2013 in Washington, United States.  (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

theGrio's 100: Valeisha Butterfield-Jones, the power of positive images

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theGRIO's 100 - Valeisha Butterfield Jones is putting the best image of black women forward...
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Nzinga Knight

theGrio’s 100: Nzinga Knight, designer who is making modest Muslim fashions fabulous

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theGRIO's 100 - Nzinga Knight is a black American designer whose style mixes a sense of chic born of her life as a native New Yorker with the modesty inspired by her Muslim faith...
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NEW YORK - OCTOBER 19: Muriel Siebert and Suzanne Shank attend the 2009 Stella by Starlight Gala at a Private Residence on October 19, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

theGrio's 100: Suzanne Shank, the leading lady of Wall Street

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Who is Suzanne Shank?

Suzanne Shank is one of the few African-American female CEOs in the country, credited with running one of the top ranked minority and w…

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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 22: Economist Dr. Dambisa Moyo and Peter Herbert of Lux Capital attend 2010 Blouin Creative Leadership Summit - Day 1 at the Metropolitan Club on September 22, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Thos Robinson/Getty Images for Louise Blouin Group)

theGrio's 100: Dambisa Moyo, international economist on quest to save Africa

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theGRIO's 100 - International economist Dambisa Moyo is known for her groundbreaking work surrounding finance infrastructure in developing countries...
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Vera Moore (Photo by Alban C. Jeune)

theGrio's 100: Vera Moore, the soap-opera star turned makeup guru

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theGRIO's 100 - Vera Moore is a soap opera star turned entrepreneur who created her own cosmetics line, Vera Moore Cosmetics, after realizing there was limited selection of makeup geared towards minorities...
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