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Cara P. Lemieux

Former Senior Advisor of Digital Strategy

Cara Lemieux is an award winning multi-media journalist, digital communications strategist and writer. She is the former senior director of digital strategy for The Shriver Report.

Prior to 2013, Lemieux was a producer for ABC News Digital, where she oversaw the video and online content for the pro-social series, Standing Up For Heroes with Bob Woodruff.  She is also the creator and founder of Me and Ducky, a blog about navigating single motherhood in New York City, and is a contributing writer for Lifetime Moms. Her pieces address and capture both the public and private issues surrounding single motherhood.

Before moving into new media, Lemieux was the control room producer for ABC’s Good Morning America. She was honored, along with the staff, to earn an Emmy Award for Best Morning Program for 3 consecutive years.

Lemieux is a runner and a three-time finisher of the New York City Half-Marathon. She graduated with honors from Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communications with a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Sociology.  She currently lives in Connecticut with her beautiful daughter.

Gender Equality Is a Myth!
By Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn’t a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.  → Read More
7 Things Learned Since Entering the Real World
No matter how much wisdom we try to pass along to the recently graduated, we can’t totally rid them of their angst. Those growing pains are part of the journey. Mourning the loss of your own childhood and becoming a grown-up isn’t easy – no matter how you cut it. I do, however, think we can ease some of the terror that comes with it by sharing insight from those who have not just survived the transition into adulthood – but thrived.  → Read More
Men We Love
Men We Love: “Reasons My Kid is Crying” Author Greg Pembroke Talks Parenting, Humor and Masculinity
In 2013, Greg Pembroke’s “Reason’s My Son is Crying” Tumblr blog went viral, capturing “all the many many completely illogical reasons that children cry.  → Read More
Q & A With “Paycheck to Paycheck’s” Katrina Gilbert
Katrina Gilbert’s life is featured in the HBO documentary “Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life and Times of Katrina Gilbert” which is part of the groundbreaking “Shriver Report, A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink.” This fully employed, single mother of 3 earns $9.49 an hour as a Certified Nurses Aide, providing valuable care for an aging community while being barely able to provide for herself and her own family. The Shriver Report caught up with Katrina shortly before the premiere of the documentary and she shed some light on what has changed since the film was shot and what she hopes her children will learn from her.  → Read More
Is the Key to Professional Success Marrying a Rich Husband?
We certainly don’t buy into a business plan that bases a woman’s success on marrying a wealthy husband, but apparently some people still do. Recently, two separate posts caught our attention online, both on the subject of women making sexists remarks about the success of other women. The first comment was in a a February 20th Facebook post by best-selling author, Elizabeth Gilbert where she noted that, “In the past year, I have overheard no fewer than four women in my personal acquaintance suggest that their lives would be completely solved (and that their creative potential would be completely realized) if only they had married (or could marry) a rich man.”  → Read More
This Must-See Video Will Change The Way You Look at Gender
The Representation Project – the same organization that brought us the #NotBuyingIt hashtag and app during the Super Bowl to police sexist ads — has recently released “Rewrite the Story”, prompting supporters “to pledge to use their voice to challenge society’s limiting representation of gender” – and it is definitely a video worth watching.  → Read More
What Women Need
CoverGirl’s New Ad Reminds Us that #GirlsCan
It may be too early to call it trend, but advertisers are continuing to tap into the way women want to be spoken about and to – and CoverGirl’s “Girls Can” ad is the latest to grab our attention. Some of our favorite female powerhouses make cameos in CoverGirl’s new “Girls Can” advertisement. Ellen Degeneres, P!nk, Queen Latifa, Sofia Vergara, Janelle Monae not only sell the audience a beauty product, but also a little bit of inspiration.  → Read More
A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
Brené Brown Talks to The Shriver Report: The Power of Shame on Women Living on the Brink
As part of our series on A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink in Partnership with Center for American Progress, I wanted to ask Brené how shame and vulnerability impact, and perhaps compound, the issues that are a part of financial insecurity and just like most everything she shares, her insights were mind-stretching and eye-opening.  → Read More
A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
“Never Worry Alone” and Other Tips to Pushing Back from the Brink
Marie Forleo is a business and life coach with a mission to help you realize your greatest potential and use your unique talents to change the world. Marie has helped a number of women push back from the brink through her online business school for modern entrepreneurs, known as B-school. Her energy is contagious, her passion is palpable, and she shared some of her time, insight and advice with us about how you can push back from the brink, along with the steps you can take right now to help you get back on your feet after the wind has been knocked out of you.  → Read More
A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
Why Are American Moms Maxed Out and on the Brink?
From the outside, it appeared that Katrina Alcorn was “doing it all.” She had three healthy kids, a loving husband and a growing career. Then one day in 2009 while driving to Target to buy diapers, it all came to a crashing halt when she had a breakdown. As she battled her way through crippling depression and tried to heal, she wondered how other women – many others with less supportive bosses, less engaged spouses and lower paychecks – were managing it. As she began talking to other women and listened to their stories of migraines, depression and anxiety, she realized they weren’t. Like her, many were just hanging on by a loose thread.  → Read More
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