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up and coming
S he is a nationally recognized not something I say lightly,” Sandberg adds. Mellody Hobson’s life —
voice on finance for CBS Her professional and civic leadership bring from her tough Chicago
News and chairman of her to the forefront of media attention childhood to success as
After School Matters, and where she is praised for “… setting the an investment guru, to
board member of The Chicago Public global standards for management, ethics, her marriage to George
Education Fund, George Lucas Education marketing and innovation,” by Time, Lucas — has shattered
Foundation, Lucas Museum of Narrative with similar accolades in Esquire, Vanity stereotypes of every kind.
Art, and Sundance Institute. Fair, The Wall Street Journal and Fortune
magazines, to name a few. – Vanity Fair Magazine
Her savvy has earned her A-list fans whose A multimillionaire in her own right, she
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Sheryl Sandberg credits Hobson as the Lucas, the creator of Star Wars. She is not a
inspiration for her best-seller, Lean In. “She household name—at least not yet— but she
said she wanted to be ‘unapologetically is at the hub of an eclectic group of people
black and unapologetically a woman’. My who are.
life was altered by meeting her, and that’s
