WCAC 2023 Sep Jenna & Barbara Bush

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Women Connect Celebration

Featuring Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush

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Taking the stage on September 26 for The Chamber's 10th Women Connect Celebration event will be two sisters who impact lives across the nation and globe every day, Jenna and Barbara Bush.

Family relationships play an important role in preserving and protecting a legacy, whether you're establishing a new one or building on an existing one. At this year's Women Connect Celebration, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush will share with our attendees how they pay tribute to their family name and find meaning in carving their own paths. Finding inspiration from previous generations of their family, including their grandparents and parents, Jenna and Barbara will discuss the powerful legacy of love, patience and commitment.

Jenna and Barbara are daughters to former U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.

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About Barbara | Co-founder and Board Chair, Global Health Corps

Barbara Bush leads the NBA's efforts around health equity, civic engagement, and social justice as Vice President of Social Impact. In this role, she works with NBA offices across the globe to utilize the convening power of basketball to execute thoughtful, community-driven impact strategies relevant to each market.

Barbara is co-founder and board member of Global Health Corps (GHC), an organization that mobilizes young leaders to solve the world's most pressing health issues. Barbara served as GHC's CEO for its first 9 years. Bush and her co-founders are united by the belief that health is a human right and that their generation must build a world where this is realized. Since 2009, GHC has placed thousands of young leaders on the front lines of health equity in East Africa, Southern Africa, and the United States, developing a cadre of creative, effective, and compassionate change makers.

In 2011, Bush was named one of Glamour magazine's Women of the Year; in 2013, she was recognized as one of Newsweek's Women of Impact; and in 2015, she was named to Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business list. She has been named as one of the 100 most intriguing entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs' Builders and Innovators. In October 2017, Bush released the number one NYTimes best seller Sisters First, a memoir she co-authored with her twin. In November 2019, Bush and her sister, Hager, released the children's version of Sisters First, also a number one NYTimes best seller and Superpower Sisterhood in 2022.

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About Jenna | Best-Selling Author; Co-Host, NBC's TODAY

Jenna Bush Hager is the cohost of the fourth hour of the Today show with Hoda Kotb and the founder of the Today book club, Read with Jenna.

She is the co-author of the #1 New York Times best seller Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope, which she wrote after traveling to Latin America in 2006 as an intern with UNICEF. Ana's Story is based on the life of a 17- year-old single mother with HIV, who struggles to shield her child from the life she had of abuse and neglect. Jenna remains involved with UNICEF and is currently the chair of its Next Generation initiative, which is dedicated to reducing childhood deaths worldwide.

Jenna is also the co-author of two #1 New York Times bestselling children's books that she wrote with her mother, Laura, Our Great Big Backyard and Read All About It, as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Sisters First, written with her sister, Barbara, in both adult and children's editions. Jenna's most recent book, Everything Beautiful in Time, shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandparents and the wisdom they passed on that has shaped her life.

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