Lee Ann Kwiatkowski is dean and vice president of the Klipsch Educators College at Marian University, and she also oversees the school’s K-12 outreach through the Center for Vibrant Schools.
Anne Hathaway, who was named to IBJ’s Women of Influence list in 2015, is executive director of the Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service Series, a role she’s held for 16 years.
Over the course of her career, Sue Ellspermann has worked in the corporate world as an engineer, owned her own consulting business, was a state representative and then lieutenant governor, and worked 15 years in higher education.
When Jamie Ford-Bowers started at HWC (then Hannum Wagle & Cline) in 2009, the firm was providing services only to public-sector clients, most of which were outside Indianapolis’ doughnut counties.
Jasmin French leads a global team that is responsible for developing strategies and executing initiatives that strengthen the ethical culture for Cummins’ nearly 80,000 employees.
Rachelle Gardner has worked in the field of adolescent substance-use-disorder treatment and recovery for 35 years—the past 20 as co-founder and executive director of Hope Academy High School.
Kristin Glazner has guided initiatives at Wabash that helped the company increase workforce diversity, with 66% of hourly hires and 47% of salaried hires in 2023 being women and/or minorities.
As race engineer at Arrow McLaren, Kate Gundlach oversees race cars’ performance, with the goal of being the fastest car in the field in qualifying and finishing first.
Since 2010, Alonya Yakovleva has built Indiana Ballet Conservatory from the ground up, establishing it as “an elite and highly respected training ground for both serious-minded ballet students and recreational dancers alike.”
Eunice Trotter spent much of her career in journalism, but her role today is to uncover, document, preserve or restore and share Indiana Black history and heritage for Indiana Landmarks.
Gina Miller joined the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership as CEO in 2022 at a time when construction costs, housing prices and mortgage rates were all skyrocketing.
