DaringDames.com - Inspiring Stories of Maverick Women

Revised: 5/6/01

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Welcome to the future home of DaringDames.com
presented by television journalist and producer, Giselle Fernandez.
"I want to share many stories about Maverick Women
because so many have inspired me.
It all starts with an idea that you believe in...
that's the key."

Linda Alvarado, who was named by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in America, is the president of Alvarado Construction, Inc., a commercial general contracting firm based in Denver, and is part owner of the Colorado Rockies baseball team. She is also corporate director of Pitney Bowes, Inc.; Cyprus Amax Minerals Company; and Engelhard Corporation. She is the chairman of the board of directors of the Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a director of the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and a Commissioner of the White House Initiative for Hispanic Excellence in Education. A nationally recognized speaker and advocate for Hispanic business issues, Alvarado was the recipient of the Sara Lee Corporation Frontrunner Award for exemplary achievement and leadership in business and the community. In 1994 she was the Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce National Businesswoman of the Year. In 1996 she was selected the Revlon Business Woman of the Year, received the National Minority Supplier Development Council Leadership Award, was selected for the second time as the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business Woman of the Year, and received an honorary doctorate in commercial science from Dowling College in New York.

Learn more about Linda Alvarado with this link...

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Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel - May 1999

Cool Women: The Reference by Dawn Chipman & Pamela Nelson - March 1998

Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World by Kathleen Ragan - May 1998

Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks: Entrepreneurial Skills, Stories and Encouragement for Modern Girls by Stacy Kravetz - March 1999

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank - June 1999

How Jane Won: 55 Successful Women Share How They Grew from Ordinary Girls to Extraordinary Women by Sylvia B. Rimm - February 2001

Maverick Women: 19th Century Women Who Kicked Over the Traces by Frances Laurence - January 1998

My Date With Satan: Stories by Stacey Richter - July 1999

Neurotica by Sue Margolis - July 1999

Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World by Claudia Roth Pierpont - February 2000

Portrait of Myself by Margaret Bourke-White - Out of Print

See Jane Win: The Rimm Report on How 1,000 Girls Became Successful Women by Sylvia B. Rimm - May 1999

Simon De Beauvoir: A Life... a Love Story by Claude Francis - Out of Print

Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Photographer Tina Madotti by Patricia Albers - April 1999

Uppity Women of Ancient Times by Vicki Leon - 1995

Women and Flight: Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots by Carolyn Russo - May 1997

Women Inventors: American Profiles by Linda Jacobs Altman - June 1997

Women of Words: A Personal Introduction to Thirty-Five Important Writers by Janet Bukovinsky Teacher - September 1996

Women Who Dared: A Book of Postcards by Pomegranate - 1992

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Latinos - the Net and Globalization

Read Giselle's speech - Washington, DC - September 29, 2000

"It's the Latina who I am focusing on because of her amazing entrepreneurial energy, self reliance and tenacity to, despite all the odds against her, take action to secure her own destiny."

Hispanics Ready for the Millennium

Read Giselle's speech - Chicago - July 1, 1999

"Each of us has a special gift, a mission, a calling. It's in you. You may choose not to recognize it ... even to ignore or oppress it. But I know without a shadow of a doubt that each and every one of us was put on this earth to do something wonderful and unique to us."

Giselle's new On-line Community for Latinas at SoyMujer.com

The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance presents...
The Future is Me - Women of Achievement
Moderated by Giselle Fernandez - April 22, 1999

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