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Over the course of her career, Vicki Mangiapane has worked with farmworkers to secure good working conditions and access to reliable medical care. She’s served in Kenya for two years with the United Nations and spent a decade with the Arizona attorney general’s office. Now, as vice president and deputy general counsel at University of […]

When Hurricane Ian hit Florida in September, Bethune-Cookman University was the first college in the state to evacuate students. Located in Daytona Beach, along Florida’s eastern coast, the campus was damaged by flooding and severe winds. Trees fell across much of campus and awnings were ripped from buildings. Students left on Sept. 26, two days […]

Vicki Goodman knows a lot about power—specifically the utility industry and how power is distributed. As assistant general counsel for Exelon Corp., Goodman helps manage litigation for the largest utility company in the U.S. The company owns Atlantic City Electric, Baltimore Gas and Electric, Commonwealth Edison, Delmarva Power, PECO and Potomac Electric Power Company. Those […]

There’s something about the rule of law for which Viktoriya M. Shpigelman might have extra appreciation having come from a country where it didn’t always exist. It’s also a country where matters have only grown worse. For she was just 8 years old in 1991 when her family fled Ukraine, then part of the fragmenting […]

Nino, meaning small, is the perfect name for Vinicius Sala’s 44-pound lovable mutt. While he can’t imagine his life without his playful, affable Nino, he still remembers a time when people considered dogs nothing more than guards. He’s delighted that perspective is changing, which is one of the reasons he joined Petlove in February 2021 […]

As he approaches his 20th year at Eversource Energy, Vincent Pace is feeling energized. An assistant general counsel for the company that delivers energy to customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Pace leads a team of four attorneys who work with regulators and other interested parties on implementing state initiatives. He says while the […]

Vanessa Candido comes from humble roots, the first in her family to obtain a university degree and the first to become a lawyer. Her grandparents and most of her uncles are hardworking farmers. Her father is a mechanic, and her mother handles the home as a housewife. “I’m proud of my roots. My parents taught […]

While a slew of logistical obstacles—among them, the immense size of Brazil—had slowed e-commerce in the South American giant prior to COVID-19, it got a kick-start last year from the judiciary. The deliverers that courier service Loggi relies on for around 300,000 daily rounds can indeed be classified as independent contractors rather than employees, the […]

When Valyncia Saunders told her cousin—a lawyer—that she wanted to become an attorney, her cousin said the first step was to become a confident, persuasive writer. That’s what Saunders did. While attending Howard University and working toward a journalism degree, she also took classes in legal communications. After graduating, she interned at the media company […]

In spring 1992, Vivian Wesson was a junior at Pomona College, east of Los Angeles, and her semi-autobiographical play about growing up as “an assimilated American with African American roots and being in between cultures” was getting produced. As production occurred, a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four police white officers of assault charges in […]