Secrets of Powerful Women: Leading Change for a New Generation »

In 2007, Andrea Wong was named President and CEO of Lifetime Networks, where her creative and business acumen have taken the most powerful women's entertainment brand to new heights. Under her leadership, Lifetime has advanced its mission to celebrate, entertain, and support women through groundbreaking advocacy campaigns that amplify women's voices in their local communities and in Washington's halls of power.
Throughout her career, Wong has demonstrated an unerring ability to identify and anticipate the pulse of American culture. Prior to joining Lifetime, Wong was at ABC, where she was the force behind such pioneering programs as Dancing with the Stars and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Most recently, she spearheaded Lifetime's acquisition of Project Runway, the highest-rated competition show on all of cable.
Wong holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Rosario Dawson has garnered praise not only for her numerous leading roles, but also for her work with a range of influential organizations. As an active board member of V-Day, an organization founded by Eve Ensler, she travels worldwide to stop violence against women.

In 2004, Dawson co-founded a nonpartisan political organization called Voto Latino. The group's outreach has targeted youth and helped register over 35,000 voters. Dawson also lends her time and efforts to the Lower Eastside Girls Club in Manhattan and is an ardent environmentalist doing work with a variety of organizations including the Environmental Media Association.

Dawson made her film debut in Kids and has since been seen in Seven Pounds, Eagle Eye, Sin City, Rent, and 25th Hour.

There is something special that happens when you get a group of powerful women in a room . . . and shut the door."

Andrea Wong, President and CEO, Lifetime Networks

"There's such a reservoir of power among us when we pool our resources and uplift each other. We are limitless in our power when we understand that . . . To read this book is to know that change is possible."

Rosario Dawson, Activist and Co-Founder, Voto Latino

In the summer of 2008, sixteen teenage girls won exclusive access to dozens of the most politically powerful women in America. These congresswomen, journalists, and activists were supposed to talk to the young women about leadership skills and how to impact public policy, but they couldn't help sharing much more. They told funny, sad, and inspiring personal tales of missteps and small braveries, as well as of great leaps; they also talked to the girls about power pitfalls, power surges, powerful beginnings, and power suits.

Now those secrets are available to you. The wisdom imparted in this unforgettable collection of funny, thoughtful, and inspiring true stories will prove invaluable to women of all ages, aspirations, and lifestyles-in situations from the PTA to a power lunch, from the kitchen table to the corner office.