Undergraduate student Shyama Srikkanth, class of 2019, environmental science & policy and operations management & business analytics double major, writes about the Women's Empowerment Institute's WEI TALK: BOSS(Y), held on November 7, 2018.

Lauren Black, class of 2019 accounting and information systems double major, writes about the Women’s Empowerment Institute at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Only 6.4 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Out of these 32 women, zero are African American or Hispanic. As a minority woman, there are countless challenges facing leaders in a male-dominated climate. To address these concerns, the Women’s Empowerment Institute was born.