Female Entrepreneurs as a Global Priority "Talent is universal,
opportunity is not." The famous phrase, uttered recently by U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, provided the starting point
for Kogod's "Women Who Make Things Happen" event. Co-sponsored
by the American University Center for Israel Studies, the Kogod
Entrepreneurship Club, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies program, the Oct. 27 panel highlighted the work of two
female entrepreneurs doing their best to help others follow.
Liora Katzenstein, founder and president of the Institute for
the Study of Entrepreneurship and Management of Innovation
(ISEMI), and Shelly Porges, Senior Advisor of the Obama
administration’s Global Entrepreneurship Program at the U.S.
Department of State, attended. Executive-in-Residence Jill Klein
moderated the discussion, which was organized by Assistant
Professor Richard Linowes along with Laura Cutler, acting
director of the Center for Israel Studies. “Entrepreneurship…is
now a must. But you don’t need the o