Come Together
Editor in Chief “Mentorship is all around you if you just open up your eyes and are willing to receive it,” Chase Consumer Banking CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett said on a panel I moderated about empowerment a few weeks ago. It stuck with me. The idea that mentors are everywhere—to our left, to our right, below us, in addition to above us—is something that I’ve found to be true and so valuable in my own career. Just days later, the news that I would be taking on the role of editor in chief at Marie Claire, succeeding Aya Kanai—a woman who became a mentor, friend, and confidante in the months we worked together—would be announced, signaling a new chapter in my own life as well as in this magazine’s. I was…
