When I interned at Glamour magazine in the fall of 2007, I had the rare opportunity to attend Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards; my two heroes were receiving awards that year. Lara Logan, CNN and 60 Minutes foreign correspondent and Victoria Hale, founder and CEO of OneWorld Health, a company that uses retired pharmaceutical drugs and reformulates them for new uses while making them affordable for people living in third world countries. She gave up a high paying job in the mainstream pharmaceutical world to risk everything to help those less fortunate. At the Awards, she addresses a group of female inner city students that had been invited to the event by the magazine by saying, “You know you’ll live to be 100, don’t you? What are you going to do with that time?” Well, Victoria, you might have been speaking directly to those high school girls, but I heard you and I’m working on making you proud.
