There’s a quiet irony at the heart of the design industry. For decades, it built structures that kept women out of the very rooms where decisions were made. And in doing so, accidentally produced something it hadn’t bargained for: a generation of women who, locked out of the traditional model, built a better one.

Nowhere is that more visible than at AIGA NY. The largest local chapter in the country, shaped by women leaders for more than 43 years. Not as an exception. As the actual fabric of the place.

For Women’s History Month, we spoke with five of those women, including executive director Stacey Panousopoulos, current president Sarah Williams, and former presidents Jennifer Kinon, Chelsea Goldwell, and Lyanne Dubon-Aguilar. What they shared wasn’t a straightforward celebration of progress. It was sharper than that. A proper reckoning with what leadership actually means, and who’s been allowed to define it.

Read more at: https://www.creativeboom.com/insight/the-women-who-rewrote-what-creative-leadership-looks-like/