Elizabeth Ann Warren (Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and former law professor who is the senior United States senator from the state of Massachusetts serving since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party and regarded as a progressive. Warren has focused on consumer protection equitable economic opportunity and the social safety net while in the Senate. Warren was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries ultimately finishing third after Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
Born and raised in Oklahoma Warren is a graduate of the University of Houston and Rutgers Law School. She has taught law at several universities including the University of Houston the University of Texas at Austin the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University with expertise in bankruptcy and commercial law. Warren has written 12 books and more than 100 articles.
Warren’s first foray into public policy began in 1995 when she worked to oppose what eventually became a 2005 act restricting bankruptcy access for individuals. During the late 2000s her national profile grew after her forceful public stances in favor of more stringent banking regulations after the 2008 financial crisis. She served as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and proposed and established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for which she served as the first special advisor under President Barack Obama.
In 2012 Warren defeated incumbent Republican Scott Brown and became the first female U.S. senator from Massachusetts. She was reelected by a wide margin in 2018 defeating Republican nominee Geoff Diehl. On February 9 2019 Warren announced her candidacyin the 2020 United States presidential election.
She was briefly considered the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in late 2019 but support for her campaign dwindled. She withdrew from the race on March 5 2020 after Super Tuesday.
She was reelected to a third Senate term in 2024 against Republican nominee John Deaton.
Early life and education
Warren is the fourth child of Pauline Louise (Reed, 1912–1995) a homemaker and Donald Jones Herring (1911–1997) a U.S. Army flight instructor during World War II both of whom were members of the evangelical branch of the Protestant Methodist Church. Warren has described her early family life as teetering “on the ragged edge of the middle class” and “kind of hanging on at the edges by our fingernails.”
She and her three older brothers were raised Methodist.Warren lived in Norman Oklahoma until she was 11 years old when her family moved back to Oklahoma City.
When she was 12 her father then a salesman at Montgomery Ward had a heart attack which led to many medical bills as well as a pay cut because he could not do his previous work. After leaving his sales job he worked as a maintenance man for an apartment building. Eventually the family’s car was repossessed because they failed to make loan payments. To help the family finances her mother found work in the catalog-order department at Sears. When she was 13 Warren started waiting tables at her aunt’s restaurant.
Warren became a star member of the debate team at Northwest Classen High School and won the state high school debating championship. She also won a debate scholarship to George Washington University (GWU) at the age of 16.
She initially aspired to be a teacher, but left GWU after two years in 1968 to marry James Robert “Jim” Warren, whom she had met in high school. Warren and her husband moved to Houston, where he was employed by IBM. She enrolled in the University of Houston and graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in speech pathology and audiology. The Warrens moved to New Jersey when Jim received a job transfer. She soon became pregnant and decided to stay at home to care for their daughter, Amelia.
After Amelia turned two, Warren enrolled at Rutgers Law School. She received her Juris Doctor in 1976 and passed the bar examination shortly thereafter. Shortly before graduating, Warren became pregnant with their second child, Alexander.
Career
In 1970, after obtaining a degree in speech pathology and audiology, but before enrolling in law school, Warren taught children with disabilities for a year in a public school. During law school, she worked as a summer associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. After receiving her Juris Doctorand passing the bar examination, Warren offered legal services from home, writing wills and doing real estate closings.
In the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Warren taught law at several American universities while researching issues related to bankruptcy and middle-class personal finance. She became involved with public work in bankruptcy regulation and consumer protection in the mid-1990s.
Academics
Warren began her career in academia as a lecturer at Rutgers University, Newark School of Law (1977–1978). She then moved to the University of Houston Law Center (1978–1983), where she became an associate dean in 1980 and obtained tenure in 1981. She taught at the University of Texas School of Law as visiting associate professor in 1981 and returned as a full professor two years later (staying from 1983 to 1987). She was a research associate at the Population Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin from 1983 to 1987 and was also a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 1985.
During this period, Warren also taught Sunday school. Warren in University of Texas School of Law’s 1987 yearbook Warren’s earliest academic work was heavily influenced by the law and economics movement, which aimed to apply neoclassical economic theory to the study of law with an emphasis on economic efficiency. One of her articles, published in 1980 in the Notre Dame Law Review, argued that public utilities were over-regulated and that automatic utility rate increases should be instituted.
But Warren soon became a proponent of on-the-ground research into how people respond to laws. Her work analyzing court records and interviewing judges, lawyers, and debtors, established her as a rising star in the field of bankruptcy law.
According to Warren and economists who follow her work, one of her key insights was that rising bankruptcy rates were caused not by profligate consumer spending but by middle-class families’ attempts to buy homes in good school districts.
Warren worked in this field alongside colleagues Teresa A. Sullivan and Jay Westbrook, and the trio published their research in the book As We Forgive Our Debtors in 1989. Warren later recalled that she had begun her research believing that most people filing for bankruptcy were either working the system or had been irresponsible in incurring debts, but that she concluded that such abuse was in fact rare and that the legal framework for bankruptcy was poorly designed, describing the way the research challenged her fundamental beliefs as “worse than disillusionment” and “like being shocked at a deep-down level”.
In 2004, she published an article in the Washington University Law Review in which she argued that correlating middle-class struggles with over-consumption was a fallacy. Warren joined the University of Pennsylvania Law School as a full professor in 1987 and obtained an endowed chair in 1990, becoming the William A. Schnader Professor of Commercial Law.
In 1992, she taught for a year at Harvard Law School as the Robert Braucher Visiting Professor of Commercial Law. In 1995, Warren left Penn to become Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. In 1996, she became the highest-paid professor at Harvard University who was not an administrator, with a $181,300 salary and total compensation of $291,876, including moving expenses and an allowance in lieu of benefits contributions.
As of 2011, she was Harvard’s only tenured law professor who had attended law school at an American public university. Warren was a highly influential law professor. She published in many fields, but her expertise was in bankruptcy and commercial law. From 2005 to 2009, Warren was among the three most-cited scholars in those fields.
Warren began to rise in prominence in 2004 with an appearance on the Dr. Phil show, and published several books including The Two-Income Trap.
Advisory roles
In 1995, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission’s chair, former congressman Mike Synar, asked Warren to advise the commission. Synar had been a debate opponent of Warren’s during their school years. She helped draft the commission’s report and worked for several years to oppose legislation intended to severely restrict consumers’ right to file for bankruptcy. Warren and others opposing the legislation were not successful; in 2005, Congress passed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, which curtailed consumers’ ability to file for bankruptcy.
From 2006 to 2010, Warren was a member of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion. She is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference, an independent organization that advises the U.S. Congress on bankruptcy law, a former vice president of the American Law Institute and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Warren’s scholarship and public advocacy were the impetus for establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2011.
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The “Why” of Learning French: One Person’s Perspective
I’ve been studying French intermittently for the last seven years. A friend and colleague introduced me to the Duolingo app in 2018, and I embraced it enthusiastically. Over time, I tried other apps and programs, and eventually, I started studying formally. I continued learning.
But, strange as it seems, the question that kept coming back to me was, “Why am I doing this?” I felt driven to climb the French language-learning mountain, but I couldn’t easily explain why to myself or others. Why spend time learning a language when I could be doing other things? Especially when, trust me, not everyone in my immediate vicinity embraces anyone learning French. Some resent that French was thrust upon them in school, and they openly (and some not so openly) wonder why I am spending time on a language that others frankly resent.
I read online about all the reasons others have—travel, useful for new work opportunities, exploring new cultures. Yes, but all that did not really resonate with me. There was something more. So, after a fair amount of thought, here are some reflections on the “why” of learning French for me.
Adapting to a New Environment:
As an American, fairly newly married, and now living in Canada, part of my desire to learn a language was simply to fit into a bilingual country. Seeing road signs and products in both English and French, while also trying to navigate the nuances of my adopted country, was a bit stressful. By learning French, I found I was gradually becoming more comfortable with the environment around me. Maybe I wouldn’t understand the French on the road sign or the translation on the Costco product immediately, but someday I would! (I wasn’t going to cave to just understanding the English.)
Personal Empowerment:
Perhaps it was also the desire to have something I could own. I moved into a country that was not my own, into a house that was not my own, into a new family (a second marriage for my husband, a first for me), and even the cat was fairly new to me. French was something that belonged to me, a steady island in the face of a lot of turbulence.
Mindfulness and Healing:
Learning a language was also, I found, a form of mindfulness. After my mother died in 2017, French was a way to focus on something other than my grief while still allowing myself to process the grief. It was a way to step back, to step away, to embrace a new way of thinking and speaking. It was also a way to process the grief of what was happening in the United States, and it continues to be helpful in that regard.
Expanding Horizons:
A form of escapism? I don’t think so. Instead, I find that I am becoming more outward-focused, seeing globally rather than locally. And being part of group classes through a language school, with teachers and students from all over the world, is intellectually stimulating and personally fulfilling. Kind of free travel to countries all over the world, meeting new people, learning new things. We are on a journey together, learning together, and that’s really great.
Connecting with Others:
It is a way to connect with others outside of the classroom as well. I can practice French with family members, with friends and colleagues willing to go on the adventure with me. And, of course, there are the French movies, songs, books…
Living with Integrity:
Learning French also fits in with my values of love of beauty, desire for excellence, and love of learning. In that way, I live in integrity with my values.
Challenging Myself:
It is an opportunity to challenge myself. It is truly like climbing a mountain. The higher I go, the farther I progress, the more I need to remind myself that this is not about perfection, it’s not about getting a good grade. I will never learn all the words in the French language, I will improve over time with grammatical accuracy. It is—and I am—a work in progress.
Balancing the Brain:
Learning French just feels good. It uses the right brain, which is a breath of fresh air to me. I’ve always been a right-brain person in an often left-brain world and culture. This provides a balance.
Learning as a State of Being:
Learning, to me, is a state of being—a way of expressing joy through learning something new. It is living—like a flower blooms, learning a language helps me flourish. It is the way of life. The flower closes, the flower opens…
Moving Forward in Uncertain Times:
And now, in these uncertain times, learning a language is an affirmation of hope, belief in human connection, an act of faith in the future, a way of moving forward. It is also a way to embrace our global humanity.
Truly, it seems, learning a language for me is a way of growth, of outward-looking, of outward-seeking, of learning to be comfortable and rejoice in who I am, as well as experience the joy of being in connection with others.
Concluding Thoughts
Language learning is more than just acquiring a new skill; it’s a powerful tool for personal growth, empowerment, and connection. For women, especially in uncertain times, taking steps to move forward in mindful and hopeful ways can be transformative. You might consider language learning as one way to explore new cultures, connect with others, and strengthen your resilience. It’s an affirmation of hope, a way to build bridges, and a testament to your courage and determination.
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Winter 2025: A Note from Christine Grumm and Stephanie Clohesy, on behalf of the 10 authors of The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy
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Books stop time for the reader.
In exchange for your attention, books animate a moment in time so that readers can get a sense of a complex landscape that is not otherwise visible or well-known.
The challenge of this book—despite its static form—is to describe a historical movement that is alive, surging, and still evolving.
On behalf of the 10 authors, here’s the preface by Stephanie Clohesy, former board chairman of the Women’s Funding Network, and Chris Grumm, past president and CEO of the Women’s Funding Network
It aims to immerse readers in the past while looking toward the near future to fully grasp the broader implications of a complex global movement whose influence spans multiple geographies of diverse communities and cultures, all driven by myriad goals and purposes.
This book breathes life into a world that might otherwise seem hidden from view by weaving together intersecting and shared journeys captured through a diverse ensemble of shared voices. The world of women’s philanthropy has many surprises and even more shocking truths that are revealed through acts of courage and defiance.
The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy is a book that will elevate your appreciation of what has been and still needs to be accomplished. It tells the story of the Global Women’s Funding Movement as its unique cause that parallels and supports women’s movements worldwide, serving as social justice innovators for women, girls, and gender-expansive people.
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Check out these findings by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy:
- Total charitable giving is expected to rise above the historical 10-year, 25-year, and 40-year annualized average rates of growth in both 2024 and 2025.
- Giving by households is predicted to grow but will trail the rate of growth for total giving.
- Giving by foundations is expected to experience strong growth, outpacing growth rates for total giving in 2024 and 2025.
- Giving by estates is anticipated to experience stronger growth in 2025, rising above the historical 10-year, 25-year, and 40-year annualized average rates of growth.
- Giving by corporations is also projected to grow but will lag historic rates of growth for this sector.
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Kimberly: Breaking through the entrenched “Old Boy” network at Foot Locker was a formidable journey where women, especially women of color, were conspicuously absent from leadership. Despite this backdrop of systemic exclusion, I found my answer not in seeking permission but in forging a path. I created a product design organization dedicated to apparel and accessories for the global market, which was a strategic move to carve out a space for diversity in thought, creativity, and leadership to flourish away from the oppressive norms of the status quo. (more…)
Spring 2024: On March 26, the Supreme Court heard arguments that sought to limit access to a widely used drug for medication abortions, reshape health care policy, and undermine the FDA’s regulation processes.
The following day, the nation also heard Women’s Marchers from across the country say unequivocally that partisan and politicized SCOTUS rulings on abortion are illegitimate. No matter the outcome of this sham case, medication abortion will remain accessible to all who seek it. At 11am, Women’s March activists, including senior leadership, were arrested while exercising their First Amendment rights to let the politicized Supreme Court know that, no matter what their decision is, we will make sure that medication abortion will be available to anyone who needs it.
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October 2023: A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Inkandescent Women magazine — When I published the Fall 2023 issue of Inkandescent Women featuring female activists, I had no idea that a war would break out in the Middle East on Oct. 7. As a woman proud of my Jewish heritage, it is not the politics of this disaster that I am focused on. It is the devastation of the lives caught in the crossfire.
Early news reports explained: “Israel is reeling from an attack carried about by Hamas that has left more than 900 Israelis dead and more than 100 captured.”
In the week since more horrifying events have erupted:
- Israeli troops, including “infantry and armored forces,” carried out local raids in the Gaza Strip to eliminate the terror threat and try to locate hostages, the Israel Defense Forces said Friday.
- Israel has maintained its bombardment of Gaza in response to Hamas’ attacks that killed more than 1,300 people on October 7. It also has amassed more than 300,000 reservists along its southern border ahead of a potential ground incursion.
- Gaza’s humanitarian crisis is deepening with warnings people are at risk of starvation. According to the Palestinian health ministry, nearly 1,800 people have been killed in Gaza. The airstrikes have also displaced 423,000 people, the UN said.
- US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Tel Aviv pledged full US support to Israel, stressing, “This is no time for neutrality, or for false equivalence or for excuses for the inexcusable.”
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Winter 2023: A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Inkandescent Women magazine — “If you can read this, thank a teacher,” writes Suzanne Capek Tingley, Veteran Educator, M.A. Degree, about her favorite bumper sticker in an article about the Three Reasons to be Thankful for Teachers, for Western Governor’s University.
WGU is home to educator Dr. Jennie Sanders, our cover story star in the Winter 2023 issue of Inkandescent Women magazine. So it seems appropriate to share Suzanne’s three reasons to be thankful for teachers: “their support, their kindness, their ability to teach kids, and of course, their dedication.”
These are Suzanne’s three examples of teachers who went above and beyond and proved why everyone should be thankful for this truly amazing group: (more…)
Dear Chef,
How comforting it is to end the year with a sense of relief. Yes, the world is still struggling with a devastating pandemic. Yes, we continue to reel from a caustic presidential election. And yes, we are all working to discover the new normal.
So what a blessing it is to look back on all that we’ve been through in 2020, pat ourselves on the back for making it through — and know in our hearts that a new year awaits, one filled with infinite possibilities!
With that goal in mind, we hope to shine a little light to your life with the release of our newest Inkandescent® Book title: Your What’s Next Journal.
Filled with insights from 12 industry leaders about what they see coming in their businesses and lives, our goal is to help you flip through the months of the year with their guidance and support.- Each month’s chapter also features interactive prompts to help you focus and center your:
- Mind (writing options from Hope)
- Body (a series of simple but effective yoga poses)
- Spirit (52 sets of affirmations)
- Soul (art ideas by Cynthia)
- Heart (healthy recipes from 12 of our favorite female chefs) — this is where you come in!
Our goal is to help readers fill the pages with their powerful thoughts and creative representations that will help them to go deeper into their psyche, and truly create the life of their dreams. Here’s where you come in! (more…)
Fall 2022: A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Inkandescent Women magazine — In this issue, we are celebrating the significant trend reversal where the book publishing industry is no longer run from the very top by a small group of men. This fact isn’t lost on journalists such as The Guardian’s Johanna Thomas-Corr and Irish Times reporter Finn McRedmond, who believes the reason for the shift is that women make up about 80% of those novel buyers.
“It follows, then, that it is perhaps likely that women like buying books written by women,” Finn muses, noting the increasing democratization of the publishing industry has also got something to do with it. “Publishing is no longer run from the very top by a small group of men. It is abundantly obvious (and stop me if you’ve heard this one before) that an industry dominated solely by men is more likely to favor the work of men, seeing them preferred over their female counterparts. But that women writers are enjoying such sustained prominence in the fiction market at the same time that more women are entering the publishing industry is further proof of this.” Click here to read more from Finn. (more…)
Summer 2022: A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Inkandescent Women magazine — The gift of finding your heart’s desire is what we all strive for. And as anyone who has been at it — for decades — knows, it takes time, patience, and faith to keep following your intuition.
That’s why it’s amazing to feature intuitive psychotherapist Kara Kihm and the guests of her weekly video and podcast show on the cover of this issue of Inkandescent Women magazine. Not only does each woman share her powerful journey, but she also provides insights and ideas into how we can each overcome obstacles.
“It’s never easy to face challenges, but the sweetness of getting to the place where you deeply know you should be is definitely worth the ride,” insists Kara, who has been following her path since getting divorced in 2016. Everything Kara thought she wanted from her life began to crumble around her. “As I stood amid the rubble, rather than crumble too, I decided to redefine it all.”
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A trip around the world came next, followed in 2021 by the publishing of her memoir Discovering My Wings. Scroll down to read the first two chapters of the book. And click here to learn more about what Kara is up to today: KaraKihm.com.
Thank you so much for taking the time to be part of our Truly Amazing Women project at Inkandescent Women magazine. We look forward to talking with you again in August! — Hope Katz Gibbs, founder, Inkandescent® PR + Publishing Co.
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April-May 2022: A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Inkandescent Women magazine — I love this quote by critically-acclaimed Chilean writer Isabel Angélica Allende Llona. Her books live in the genre of magical realism, including The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002). Based upon her personal experience and historical events, Isabel’s works pay homage to the lives of incredible women, while weaving together elements of myth and realism. It’s hard not to adore a woman who understands the depth and breadth of what it means to harness your personal power in a magical manner.
The same is true of the women who grace the cover of this month’s issue of Inkandescent Women magazine featuring Marguerita Cheng, CFP® Pro. She shines a light on a dozen of the women she has featured on her popular TV and podcast show that celebrates Happy Hour every Friday at 5pm EST, Margaritas with Marguerita. (more…)
March-April 2022: A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Inkandescent Women magazine — We celebrate International Women’s Month 2022 with a quote by Susan B. Anthony about one of the greatest changes in women’s rights: The bicycle.
“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel — the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
Indeed, when modern bicycles were invented in the 1890s, it was a social revolution for women. As you’ll read in this month’s cover story featuring “Women in White Coats,” about three Victorian women who became the first female doctors, bicycles provided freedom of movement for women of the era who were idealized for virtues such as domesticity and motherhood. The bicycle afforded an accepted way to step outside and become a larger part of society — including when it came to business and politics. (more…)
January-February 2022: A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Inkandescent Women magazine — While I usually quote women in this passion project of mine, as we embark on the new year I was drawn to the words of the American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
An advocate of social reform, who was nevertheless suspicious of reform and reformers, Emerson achieved a tremendous reputation with his verse, corresponded with many of the leading intellectual and artistic figures of his day — and during an off and on again career as a Unitarian minister delivered and later published several controversial sermons. He believed, “To trust oneself and follow our inner promptings corresponds to the highest degree of consciousness.” (more…)
November-December 2021: A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Inkandescent Women magazine, and Cynthia de Lorenzi, founder, Success in the City, and co-author, Your What’s Next Journal — How comforting it is to end the year with a sense of relief. Yes, the world is still struggling with a devastating pandemic. Yes, we continue to reel from a caustic presidential election. And yes, we are all working to discover the new normal.
So what a blessing it is to look back on all that we’ve been through these last few years. Please pat ourselves on the back for making it through — and knowing in our hearts that a new year awaits, one filled with infinite possibilities!
With that goal in mind, we hope to shine a little light on your life by releasing our newest Inkandescent™ Publishing book: Your What’s Next Journal. (more…)
If you or someone you know is in need of help, the following is a list of resources from our experts:
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September-October 2021: A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Inkandescent Women magazine (Image by Miki Jourdan, flickr.com creative commons) — Never underestimate the power of hundreds of thousands of women coming together to protest. Such was the scene on Oct. 2 when thousands of protesters marched at rallies in Washington and cities across the country decrying Texas’s recent ban on most abortions and warning that the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority could impose further restrictions in the coming months.
It has been nearly five years since the debut of the Women’s March when women from around the world walked the streets of Washington, DC, in protest of Donald Trump and all that he and his supporters stood for. We knew in our hearts and bodies that someday soon, our reproductive rights would be in jeopardy. Sadly, we were right. (more…)
July-August 2021: A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Inkandescent Women magazine — I love the month of July. Not only is it my birthday (July 8), the day I give thanks for every blessing I’ve ever received, but it is the month where we celebrate our freedom.
As the publisher of Inkandescent Women magazine and creator of the Truly Amazing Women project, I am on a mission to create a revolution: All women, everywhere, stand together and support each other in life, love, and the pursuit of everything that makes us happy, healthy, and in our power.
So it’s a pleasure to honor 8 women in the July-August 2021 issue who are standing up for what they believe in, making a powerful difference in the lives of many. (more…)
