Linda Vakunta: Leading Multicultural Madison
byIt’s time Madison started viewing itself as a multicultural city. So says deputy mayor and Cameroonian-born immigrant Linda Vakunta.
It’s time Madison started viewing itself as a multicultural city. So says deputy mayor and Cameroonian-born immigrant Linda Vakunta.
Hamdan’s own scrappy experience is why she became a social worker and now helps others make their way in this country.
Growing up in an Albanian Muslim immigrant family, Sehade Carter found middle school especially hard. Her classmates made fun of her name so often that she started going by Sarah.
At just 34 years old, Ankita Bharadwaj has already racked up plenty of life experience. She has three law degrees — two from India and one from UW–Madison — is fluent in three languages and has worked as a lawyer, activist and university employee.
These mother-daughter teams work perfectly in tandem at businesses they started — and are even providing inspiration to a third generation, who are watching and learning how to #girlboss.
When Jill Dybdahl opened Dybdahl Design Group with her husband Paul in 1992, their four-year-old daughter Anna began coming to the office with them whenever she wasn’t in school.
In Verona in early 2014, this mother-daughter duo launched Girl Wonderful, a girl-positive brand of clothing and accessories.
run Simply Rooted & Co., a home décor shop in Spring Green. It’s just down the road from the Spring Green Motel, which daughter Tami Gruber and her husband, Fred, also co-own.
Sandra Henry brings an engineer’s mind and an advocate’s heart to a clean-energy nonprofit.
Frances Huntley-Cooper, the state’s first Black mayor, has had a storied, service-oriented career.
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