| The Stars of Dream It, Achieve It!
Dream It, Achieve It! supplies a role model from every walk of life to inspire each girl's particular dream.
Women such as
- Sandra Day O'Connor, Secretary Alexis Herman, Senator Carol Moseley Braun, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Susan Molinari, Hillary Clinton, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, and Secretary Madeleine Albright from government
- Sherry Lansing from film
- Mickey Siebert, Connie Duckworth and Michele Hooper representing finance and health care
- Diane Sawyer, Linda Dennery, Valerie Salembier, Lisa Long, and Helen Thomas representing journalism
- Wendy Wasserstein, Rebecca Luker, and Mary Murfitt from theatre
- Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan from the women's movement
- Women such as Julia Barr and Maggie Randell representing the lighter side of television
- Gwendolyn Crider from the National Air & Space Museum
- Beverly Sills from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Kay Unger, Adrienne Arsht, and Nicole Miller from fashion
- Camilla Dietz Bergeron from stocks to jewelry and Carolee Friedlander in jewels
- Cheryl McArthur from shopping center development
- Chris Evert, Monica Seles, Pat Summitt, Chamique Holdsclaw, Kara Wolters, Carla Berube, and Michelle Kwan from sports
- Judy Haberkorn, Jane Evans, and Sherry Manning (former college president) from telecommunications
- Joanna Lau, a decorated female defense contractor
- Teresa McBride, Debi Coleman, and Bernee Strom from computers
- Maryles Casto and Linda Paresky from travel
- Johnnetta Cole, Anne Bryant, and Momma Hawk from education
- Rosa Parks, mother of the Civil Rights Movement
- Wilma Mankiller, Chief of the Cherokee Nation
- Maya Lin from the Vietnam Memorial
- Michelle Rosenfeld, Alexandra Nechita, and Elizabeth Murray from art
- Harriet Mouchly Weiss who advises governments
- Nancy Mueller who started her food company in her kitchen
- Barbara Roberts who computerized stock photography
- Barbara Corcoran from real estate
- Susan Falk and Linda LoRe from retailing
- Judith Rogala from office retailing
- Cheryl Womack and Barbara Balser from insurance
- Lillian Vernon from catalogs
- Marilyn Hamilton, who brought the wheelchair into the 21st century
- Mary Ellen Weber from NASA's space program
- Grace Shafir, Dare to Dream producer with a children's products development background
Each of these women has contributed her time to encouraging the next generation. Each has paid her own expenses to travel to the filming sites or has opened her home or office to our camera. Each believes strongly in the message: if you can dream it, you can be it.
Dream It, Achieve It! was originally intended to be one 30 minute video; however, since so many wonderful women have volunteered to contribute their stories, it has become an infinite list of women's history.
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The Stars of Dream It, Achieve it!