Creating a body styler for pregnant women was not part of Valerie Darragh and Sabina Melarti’s master plan. Both new moms, Sabina was studying for her Masters in Spanish/Linguistics, and Valerie worked as a hairstylist while balancing the needs of their young famili ... Read more...

Most moms dream of dressing their baby girls in frilly dresses and big bows. Hallie House was no different. “When my second child, Lyla, was born, I couldn’t resist dressing her in the sweetest clothes and girliest accessories I could find,” says House. “But I had t ... Read more...

Like most little girls, Blanca Lesser loved handbags. But growing up in El Salvador, Lesser never had what she most coveted. After Lesser emigrated to the U.S., she scored the job of a lifetime—as a handbag buyer in Macy’s. After seeing season upon season of logo-dr ... Read more...

Change begins as a seed of an idea. In the case of humanitarian and entrepreneur Devin Hibbard, it was a Ugandan bead. Walking through the streets of the capital city of Kampala, Hibbard came upon a woman rolling strips of paper into beads. She bought some beads and ... Read more...