JUNE – MELLODY HOBSON
Mellody
Hobson is the president of Ariel Investments, a Chicago
money-management firm. She has been with Ariel since 1991, when she
graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of International Relations and
Public Policy at Princeton. Hobson grew up in Chicago, the youngest of
six children who were raised by a single mother in constrained financial
circumstances. One of her many philanthropic interests is financial
literacy and investor education. In 1996, Ariel Investments became the
corporate sponsor of the Ariel Community Academy, a public school on the
south side of Chicago that offers courses in finance along with the
standard academic subjects.
Hobson and her husband, the filmmaker George
Lucas, have made significant contributions to the University of Chicago
Laboratory Schools and to After School Matters, an organization that
provides Chicago high-school students with extracurricular programs in
the arts, sciences, sports, technology, and communication. Hobson is the
Chairman of the Board of DreamWorks Animation and a member of the
boards of Estée Lauder and Starbucks. She contributes regularly to CBS
News on the subjects of finance and economic trends. She was an early
supporter of Barack Obama and an important fundraiser during his
election campaigns.
Tavi Gevinson's, 19, ideas about
fashion were shared with hundreds of thousands of teens and pre-teens
and their mothers, and with the fashion cognoscenti when she was just
12
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