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Amy Siskind Discusses Changes for Women in the 1980s

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  • Date Added : 2/21/2014
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Amy Siskind

  • Director, The New Agenda
  • female
  • Caucasian
  • 1965 (Age: 59 years old)
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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.

I want you to come with me right now on a quick journey and I'm going to take you back in time to when I was at Cornell in 1987. The reason I want to take you back in time is to talk about how things are much different for women today. Barbara Novick gave a great speech last night about her person...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 8 Amy Siskind Discusses Changes for Women in the 1980s
  • Amy Siskind - Lecture - The New Agenda
  • 2/21/2014
  • Amy Siskind
  • 3 min. 45 sec.
Video 2 of 8 Amy Siskind Discusses Changes for Women in the 1990s
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Video 3 of 8 Amy Siskind States Life Will Have Many Chapters
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  • 2 min. 9 sec.
Video 4 of 8 Amy Siskind States Importance of Working Hard In Your 20s
  • Amy Siskind - Lecture - The New Agenda
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  • Amy Siskind
  • 2 min. 15 sec.
Video 5 of 8 Amy Siskind Stresses Importance of Economic Empowerment and Financial Independence
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  • 2 min. 42 sec.
Video 6 of 8 Amy Siskind Discusses Decisions And Courage
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Video 7 of 8 Amy Siskind States Importance of Having Self-Interest and Searching For Your Passion
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  • 4 min. 2 sec.
Video 8 of 8 Amy Siskind Discusses Importance of Friendships And Having A Support Network
  • Amy Siskind - Lecture - The New Agenda
  • 2/21/2014
  • Amy Siskind
  • 3 min. 53 sec.