Genevieve Barnard Oni realized the scope of the pandemic and the extent of her power to help as she was sending messages to China. She hit send. A woman in China would respond, with mundane but important information: Order numbers for test kits. Delivery dates. “She would respond sometimes to me at 3 a.m.,” Genevieve […]
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Women Business Leaders Emerge During The Pandemic
A few weeks ago, Penny Peavler and Valerie Horn were deep in a $50,000 grant application to fund food distribution to kids in Eastern Kentucky, when Horn realized what she had: a food distribution network. Since 2017, Horn had been building a nonprofit, Community Agricultural Nutrition Enterprises, to get farm produce to families that needed […]
