Stacey Abrams is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of While Justice Sleeps, Our Time is Now, and Lead from the Outside, an entrepreneur; and a political leader.
Following her time reporting for ABC\'s Good Morning America and anchoring World News Now/World News This Morning, Cabot served as Yahoo! Web Life Editor from 2007-12 and appeared regularly on NBC\'s TODAY, cable news outlets, and daytime TV talk shows t.
Martin\'s Press, 2017), and a freelance writer published in Forbes, Elle, Parents, The Huffington Post, People, USA Today, and more.
She is the author of the critically-acclaimed Business narrative, The New Chardonnay: The Unlikely Story of How Marijuana Went Mainstream (Currency, 2020), co-author of Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech (St.
HEATHER CABOT is an award-winning journalist, author, and former ABC News correspondent/anchor. and named her to the Entrepreneurial Winning Women Class of 2019.
E&Y recognized Lara as a 2018 Finalist for the Southeast Entrepreneur of the Year.
Today, she serves as a Trustee of the Georgia Tech Foundation in addition to other Boards.
Lara received an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a BS in Aerospace Engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Her background also includes 5 years with Dewberry Capital Corporation, an Atlanta-based commercial real estate development and investment firm, where she served as the company\'s Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to Now, Lara co-founded Nourish (a children\'s products company), and Insomnia, LLC, a firm specializing in investment, development, and management of complex and innovative worldchanging projects.
LARA HODGSON is President and CEO of NOW Corp, and has served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School.
She has received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and Yale Law School. and Sage Works Productions, Inc., a media company.
A small Business owner, Abrams co-founded the financial services firm NOW Corp.
She is the founder of Fair Fight, Fair Count, and the Southern Economic Advancement Project.
Abrams has launched multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social issues at the state, national, and international levels.
A tax attorney by training, she served eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives and seven as Minority Leader.
Stacey Abrams is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of While Justice Sleeps, Our Time is Now, and Lead from the Outside, an entrepreneur; and a political leader
