"I went to an all girls school and my friends from there are my army of soul sisters. There are 12 of us, we have been best friends since we were 12." -Belisa Bermúdez Fernández is a start up executive at Parallel18.
Kelly D. Shapiro
"It's because I am a woman of color and graduated from an Ivy League school that Dolly Singh hired me to be general counsel for her company Thesis Couture Inc. My peers are the demographic for her brand." - Kelly D. Shapiro is an attorney who provides legal representation and business counseling to clients in the entertainment, tech and start-up industry.