Amy Siskind is a national spokesperson, writer and expert on helping women and girls advance and succeed. A highly successful Wall Street executive, she's Co-founder and President of The New Agenda, a national organization working on issues including economic independence and advancement, gender representation and bias, sexual assault and domestic violence.
A pioneer in the distressed debt trading market, she has a lifetime of experience with failure and remarkable success and knows what it takes to win. She became the first female Managing Director at Wasserstein Perella at the age of 31, and later ran trading departments at Morgan Stanley and Imperial Capital, where she was also a partner.
Amy Siskind received a BA in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA in Finance from The NYU Stern School of Business.
Not coincidentally, in the mid-1990s, for the first time, the career paths that women were choosing and the majors they were choosing, undergraduate at colleges, started to shrink again. After the 60s, 70s, and 80s, when women were going into more majors, suddenly it started to move backwards in th...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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