after the team filed a gender-
discrimination lawsuit against
the U.S. Soccer Federation in
March. “It takes a lot of courage
to ask for what you deserve,”
says the Nike athlete. “Now
we’re using the microphone to
create a better environment for
ourselves and for the next
generation of female athletes.”28 DR. MACRENE
ALEXIADES With three
Harvard degrees and a skin-care
line, Macrene Actives, the
cosmetic dermatologic surgeon
and Yale professor is working
to make in-office aesthetic
procedures obsolete. Dr.Alexiades, who cultivates
plants on her farm and runs a
dermatology and laser-surgery
center in New York City,
literally wrote the book on
modern-day dermatology. Her
textbook for aesthetic-therapy
curricula will be available later
this year. “It was always my
dream to grow organic crops
and manufacture products in
my own lab,” she says. “I see
myself as the modern version
of Estée Lauder.”2 9
MARYLAND NATIONAL GUARD
COMMAND STAFF For the first
time, a state National Guard com-
mand staff is entirely composed of
women. “I wasn’t necessarily seeking an all-female
leadership team. I simply wanted the most qualified
candidates available,” says Maj. Gen. Linda L. Singh,
who appointed the team and is also the first African
American and first female adjutant general for the
Maryland National Guard. “It just so happened that
these talented ones started rising to the top.”It takes a lot of
courage to ask forwhat you deserve.”
—ALEX MORGANALEX
MORGANH.E.R.
MARYLAND NATIONAL GUARD COMMAND STAFF
From left: Brig. Gen. Janeen L. Birckhead, assistant adjutant
general for the Maryland Army National Guard; Brig. Gen.
April D. Vogel, assistant adjutant general for the Maryland Air
National Guard; Command Sgt. Maj. Perlisa D. Wilson, Maryland
National Guard senior enlisted leader; Maj. Gen. Linda L. Singh,
adjutant general for the Maryland National Guard