This list includes some of our favorite smart women on Twitter—and some crowd-sourced suggestions as well. The list is meant to celebrate women who are shaping important conversations across a wide range of topics, industries, vocations and avocations. The work these women are doing represents a breadth of creativity and diversity of intellectual perspectives. Some of these are bold face names, but many are less well known. What they have in common is that they all share an intellectual curiosity and a willingness to step out of the wings and onto the main stage of business to talk about their pursuits.

1. 25 of the Smartest Women on Twitter 2015
February 2015

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3. About This List
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Women in business have been hailed as better learners, listeners, and leaders
across industries. Social media is challenging the wisdom of quietly climbing the
corporate ladder. Women leaders who successfully engage in social media can take
giant leaps forward toward building a framework to showcase their leadership.
That is why BRANDfog created the 25 of the Smartest Women on Twitter list.
The list is meant to celebrate women who are shaping important conversations
across a wide range of topics, industries, vocations and avocations. The work these
women are doing represents a breadth of creativity and diversity of intellectual
perspectives. Some of these are bold face names, but many are less well known.
What they have in common is that they all share an intellectual curiosity and a
willingness to step out of the wings and onto the main stage of business to talk
about their pursuits.
This Smartest Women list is meant to be fluid and inclusive, and it needs your
input! Follow me at @annmcharles, use #smartestwomen, and feel free to tweet
your best recommendations.

4. Madeleine Albright
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Madeleine Albright
https://twitter.com/madeleine
Madeleine Albright is the first woman to become
the United States Secretary of State. Albright
currently serves as a professor of International
Relations at Georgetown University's Walsh School
of Foreign Service. She holds a PhD from Columbia
University and numerous honorary degrees. In
May 2012, she was awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom by US President Barack Obama.
Former Secretary Albright has a vibrant and
interesting Twitter account and recently bested
Conan O’Brian in a battle of Twitter wit. Follow
@madeleine

5. Emily Bell
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Emily Bell
Director of Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital
Journalism. Former Guardian news & media
director of digital content.
https://twitter.com/emilybell
Emily Bell is a leading media commentator in the
U.K., writing about broadcasting and media policy
issues. Emily was director of digital content for
Britain's Guardian News and Media from 2006 to
2010. Under Bell, the Guardian received numerous
awards, including the Webby Award for a
newspaper website in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009,
and British Press Awards for Website of the Year in
2006, 2008 and 2009. Follow @emilybell

6. Danah Boyd
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Danah Boyd
Social media scholar, youth researcher & advocate
https://twitter.com/@zephoria
Danah Boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft
Research and the founder of the Data & Society
Research Institute. Danah is an academic and a
scholar and her research examines the intersection
between technology and society. Danah is also a
Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive
Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate
at Harvard's Berkman Center. Danah focuses on the
social and cultural dimensions of the "big data"
phenomenon, with an eye to issues like privacy and
publicity, data (mis)interpretation, and the civil rights
implications of data analytics. Follow @zephoria

7. Kimberly Bryant
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Kimberly Bryant
Founder of @BlackGirlsCode, White House
Champion of Change
https://twitter.com/6Gems
Kimberly Bryant is the Founder and Executive
Director of Black Girls CODE, a technology
education nonprofit focusing on teaching girls
from underrepresented communities skills in
computer programming and technology. “Imagine.
Build. Create.” is the motto at Black Girls CODE,
and the organization is dedicated to building a
world where everyone is given the tools to
succeed and creating a new age of women of color
in technology. Follow @6Gems

8. Anna Chávez
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Anna Chávez
CEO for Girl Scouts of the USA
https://twitter.com/@AnnaMariaChavez
Anna Maria Chávez is the CEO of the Girl Scouts of
the USA. Ms. Chávez was the recipient of the 2012
Chairman's Award for the United States Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce and Women of Excellence
Award from the Women of the Association of Latino
Professionals in Finance and Accounting. Ms.
Chávez holds a law degree from the University of
Arizona and a bachelor’s degree in American history
from Yale. She has also been awarded for her work
in STEM technologies and increasing participation of
Girl Scouts in STEM-related fields, she’s recognized
as one of the 100 Women in STEM by
STEMConnector. Follow @AnnaMariaChavez

9. Helena Foulkes
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Helena Foulkes
EVP of CVS Health & President of CVS/pharmacy
https://twitter.com/helenabfoulkes
As EVP of CVS Health and President of
CVS/pharmacy, Helena Foulkes is responsible for all
aspects of the company’s retail business including
its more than 7,700 retail stores. Foulkes has played
an important leadership role in growing the
company from its retail roots to the largest
pharmacy health care provider in the United States,
and was instrumental in the company’s move to end
the sale of tobacco products. She has received
numerous professional honors and serves on the
boards of The Home Depot, The Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute and The Wheeler School. Follow
@helenabfoulkes

10. Katy George
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Katy George
Global co-leader, McKinsey & Company's
Manufacturing practice
https://twitter.com/katymgeorge
As the global co-leader of the Manufacturing
practice at McKinsey & Company, Katy George
works with clients to set operations strategies that
reflect the latest trends in advanced manufacturing
technologies, agile manufacturing, and global
manufacturing competitiveness. She also leads
McKinsey's evolving thinking on nextshoring,
helping clients define US manufacturing strategies
and build supply bases to support them, and close
the skills gap for the talent needed to power
increasingly sophisticated manufacturing
operations. Ms. George is committed to advancing
women's leadership in global business, as well as in
the operations and manufacturing industry. Follow
@katymgeorge

11. Rachel Haot
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Rachel Haot
Chief Digital Officer & Deputy Secretary for Tech
for @nygovcuomo.
https://twitter.com/RachelHaot
Rachel Haot is Chief Digital Officer and Deputy
Secretary of Technology for New York State, part of
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration. As
Deputy Secretary for Technology, Ms. Haot leads
the State’s digital experience across web, mobile
and social media with a focus on streamlining
services and supporting public engagement online.
Prior to this role, Rachel served as Chief Digital
Officer for the City of New York under Mayor
Michael Bloomberg. In 2012, she was named a
Young Global Leader by the World Economic
Forum. Follow @RachelHaot

12. Gwen Ifill
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Gwen Ifill
Moderator & managing editor of Washington
Week on PBS, co-anchor & managing editor of PBS
NewsHour; best-selling author
https://twitter.com/@gwenifill
Gwen Ifill is a moderator and managing editor of
Washington Week on PBS and co-anchor and
managing editor of the PBS NewsHour. Gwen is a
political analyst, and moderated the 2004 and
2008 Vice Presidential debates. She is the best-
selling author of The Breakthrough: Politics and
Race in the Age of Obama. Ms. Ifill has received
more than 20 honorary doctorates and serves on
the boards of the News Literacy Project andthe
Committee to Protect Journalists. She is a fellow
with the American Academy of Sciences. Follow
@gwenifill

13. Saran Kaba Jones
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Saran Kaba Jones
Founder of @faceafrica, working on global access
to clean water https://twitter.com/sarankjones
Saran Kaba Jones is the founder & executive
director of @faceafrica and a clean water
advocate. FACE Africa aims to provide 100% water
coverage and positively change the lives of tens of
thousands of people in remote communities
across Sub-Saharan Africa. Her focus is on
strengthening water, sanitation & hygiene
infrastructure in remote communities. In 2013,
she was listed by the Guardian UK as one of
Africa's 25 Top Women Achievers. She was also
named a 2013 World Economic Forum Young
Global Leader, part of a unique community of
action-oriented and entrepreneurial young
leaders. Follow @sarankjones

14. Julie Kantor
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Julie Kantor
Chief Partnership Officer at STEMconnector® &
Million Women Mentors Initiative
https://twitter.com/JulieKantorSTEM
Julie Kantor is a tireless ambassador for STEM
education, entrepreneurship and building of
America’s skilled workforce. She is a Chief
Partnership Officer at STEMconnector & Million
Women Mentors. Million Women Mentors,
launched in January 2014, will support the
engagement of one million women (and men) in
STEM to serve as mentors by 2018. Julie is a
thought leader and writer for Huffington Post
Business. She was recognized by President Obama
for her 20-year career in education in April of 2012
and honored by the Center for Innovative
Technology (CIT) as 2012 CIT GAP 50 Winner.
Follow @JulieKantorSTEM

15. Sallie Krawcheck
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Sallie Krawcheck
Former CEO of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management
and Smith Barney, currently leading the
professional women’s network Ellevate
https://twitter.com/@SallieKrawcheck
Sallie Krawcheck is the former CEO of Merrill Lynch
Wealth Management and Smith Barney, and
currently leads the professional women’s network
@EllevateNtwk, comprised of 35,000-plus women
members from a diverse spectrum of industries
and professions. She is a leading voice on lessons
for personal and business success as well as issues
ranging from workplace diversity and the gender
pay gap to financial reform policy and corporate
governance practices. Krawcheck is also a
persuasive advocate for the power of diversity in
driving innovation, economic growth and financial
returns. Follow @SallieKrawcheck

16. Aileen Lee
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Aileen Lee
Founder of Cowboy Ventures
https://twitter.com/aileenlee
Aileen Lee is Founder of Cowboy Ventures, a
digital seed-stage focused fund founded in 2012,
and a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
which she joined in 1999.
She has a Bachelor of Science from MIT, an MBA
from Harvard Business School and she is a Henry
Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Follow
@aileenlee

17. Gerri Martin-Flickinger
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Gerri Martin-Flickinger
CIO Adobe
https://twitter.com/gmflickinger
Gerri Martin-Flickinger is SVP and CIO at Adobe.
She leads the global Information Technology team,
providing strategic direction and management for
the company’s IT infrastructure worldwide and
helping to develop innovative enterprise solutions
to drive Adobe’s business. Ms. Martin-Flickinger
has more than 20 years of experience leading
large-scale global IT organizations for companies
experiencing explosive growth through
acquisition, global expansion and/or implementing
new business models. Gerri offers insight into the
latest digital & technology trends, transformation
of IT, women in leadership topics, as well as news
from Adobe. Follow @gmflickinger

18. Sylvia McLain
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Sylvia McLain
https://twitter.com/girlinterruptin
Dr. Sylvia McLain is a biophysicist in the
Department of Biochemistry at the University of
Oxford, as well as a college lecturer at St. Peter's
College where she tutors biochemistry and
biophysics.
She runs a biophysics research group and writes
about science, science policy and philosophy of
science at her Occam's typewriter blog “Girl,
Interrupting,” as well as for The Guardian’s Science
blog network. Follow @girlinterruptin

19. Veronica McGregor
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Veronica McGregor
News/Social Media Mgr @NASAJPL. Also tweeting
as @MarsCuriosity & @AsteroidWatch. Creator of
the first #NASATweetup.
https://twitter.com/VeronicaMcG
Veronica McGregor manages the news and social
media office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
She launched NASA into the Twitterverse in 2008
with @MarsPhoenix, which rocketed into the Top
10 accounts based on followers while the mission
was ongoing. In 2009, Veronica organized NASA’s
first Ustream.tv broadcasts with public chat
capability, and she introduced the “NASA
Tweetup” concept – events designed to bring the
public behind the scenes at NASA centers to
witness a mission firsthand. Veronica was included
on the Forbes 2010 list of 20 Inspiring Women to
Follow on Twitter. Follow @VeronicaMcG

20. Azadeh Moaveni
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Azadeh Moaveni
Former TIME Middle East correspondent, author.
https://twitter.com/AzadehMoaveni
Azadeh Moaveni is the author of Lipstick Jihad and
co-author, with Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin
Ebadi, of Iran Awakening. She has lived and
reported throughout the Middle East. As one of
the few American correspondents allowed to work
continuously in Iran since 1999, she has reported
widely on youth culture, women’s rights, and
Islamic reform for TIME, The New York Times Book
Review, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles
Times. Currently, she is a TIME magazine
contributing writer on Iran and the Middle East.
Follow @AzadehMoaveni

21. Liz Ngonzi
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Liz Ngonzi
https://twitter.com/LizNgonzi
Liz Ngonzi is the CEO of Afrika Tikkun USA and is a
recognized authority on entrepreneurship and
philanthropy. Liz served as the Communications
Chair of the President’s Council of Cornell Women
and is a member of the board at Cornell Mosaic.
Liz is a member of the Advisory Board to Syracuse
University School of Information Studies, where
she supports It Girls, a program to attract high
school girls to careers in tech. Liz has keynoted in
the US and Africa, including at the International
Fundraising Congress, Uganda Women
Entrepreneurs Association Ltd, a TEDx Talk at
Cornell University and more. Follow @LizNgonzi

22. Juliana Rotich
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Juliana Rotich
https://twitter.com/afromusing
Juliana Rotich is a Technologist, MIT Media Lab
Director's Fellow and a TED Senior Fellow. She
currently serves as Chair of World Economic
Forum Global Agenda Council on Data Driven
Development. Juliana is the Executive Director of
Ushahidi Inc., a non-profit tech company, born in
Africa, which specializes in developing free and
open source software for information collection,
interactive mapping and data curation. Ms. Rotich
leads the team that is expanding Ushahidi Inc.’s
global footprint, making crowdsourcing tools
available and useful, and catalyzing
entrepreneurial initiatives like iHub in Kenya.
@afromusing

23. Reshma Saujani
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Reshma Saujani
Founder & CEO of Girls Who Code and the former
Deputy Public Advocate of New York City
https://twitter.com/reshmasaujani
Reshma Saujani is the Founder of Girls Who Code, a
non-profit organization working to close the gender
gap in technology and prepare young women for
jobs of the future. In her new book, "Women Who
Don't Wait in Line," Reshma advocates for a new
model of female leadership focused on embracing
risk and failure, promoting mentorship and
sponsorship, and boldly charting your own course.
Reshma also served as Deputy Public Advocate of
New York City. She has recently been named one of
Forbes' Most Powerful Women Changing the World,
Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People, Ad Age's
Creativity 50, Business Insider's 50 Women Who Are
Changing the World, City & State's Rising Stars, and
an AOL/PBS Next MAKER. Follow @reshmasaujani

24. Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Anne-Marie Slaughter
President & CEO, @newamerica. Former Princeton
Professor & Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State
Dept. https://twitter.com/@SlaughterAM
Anne-Marie Slaughter served as the first female
director of Policy Planning for the United States
Department of State (from 2009-2011), and is
currently the president and CEO of the New
America Foundation, a policy institute and idea
incubator based in Washington and New York. But
she may be best known as the author of a 2012
Atlantic magazine cover story entitled “Why
Women Still Can’t Have It All,” which quickly
became a viral sensation and helped spark a
renewed national debate on obstacles to full
gender equality. Follow @SlaughterAM

25. Debbie Sterling
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Debbie Sterling
Founder and CEO of GoldieBlox
https://twitter.com/debbieblox
Debbie Sterling is the founder and CEO of
GoldieBlox. She gave engineering a try during her
freshman year at Stanford and four years later, she
graduated with a degree in Mechanical
Engineering and Product Design. Bothered by how
few women there were in her program, Debbie
spent a year researching gender differences to
develop a construction toy that went deeper than
just "making it pink" to appeal to girls, introducing
them to the joy of engineering at a young age.
GoldieBlox stories are centered on a role model
character who solves problems by building
machines. Goldie's stories relate to girls' lives,
have a sense of humor and make engineering fun.
Follow @debbieblox

26. Ingrid Vanderveldt
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Ingrid Vanderveldt
Founder @EBW2020, First Entrepreneur-in-
Residence at Dell
https://twitter.com/ontheroadwithiv
Ingrid Vanderveldt is an entrepreneur, investor, &
media personality who has made “Empowering a
Billion Women by 2020” her mission. She’s the
Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Dell and the
Creator/Curator of the $100M Dell Innovators Credit
Fund to power entrepreneurs worldwide. Leader of
the Dell Founders Club and the Dell Center for
Entrepreneurs, she oversees the program that
provides access for Dell’s 10M small business
customers. She created & hosted CNBC’s first original
primetime series, “American Made,” and is the host
of the online entrepreneurship show, “On the Road
with iV” & Dell’s “The Conversationalist Series.” Her
philanthropic efforts focus on women’s leadership,
development, & entrepreneurial initiatives in
developing countries. Follow @ontheroadwithiv

27. Dalila Wilson-Scott
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Dalila Wilson-Scott
Managing Director of Global Philanthropy, JPMorgan
Chase https://twitter.com/dalila_says
Dalila Wilson-Scott is Head of Global Philanthropy at
JPMorgan Chase & Co., a worldwide leader in
corporate philanthropy with $200 million invested in
communities annually. Leading the JPMorgan Chase
Foundation, Dalila oversees the firm’s global
philanthropic activities, including employee
engagement and volunteerism, and plays a key role
in helping to set the firm’s overall Corporate
Responsibility strategy. She is credited for her lead
role in launching several importance philanthropic
initiatives including New Skills at Work, The
Fellowship Initiative and Small Business Forward.
Follow @dalila_says

28. Lareina Yee
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Lareina Yee
McKinsey Partner, Focused on Tech Sector and
Sales/Marketing Excellence
https://twitter.com/lareinayee
Lareina Yee is a Partner at McKinsey & Company,
focused on the technology sector and sales and
marketing excellence. Ms. Yee co-led McKinsey’s
research with the Wall Street Journal on “Women
in the US Economy.” She specializes in high tech
sales transformations, and for more than 12 years
has worked extensively in Asia (with a focus in
China) and the United States. She is on the San
Francisco Ballet School Committee and has led a
pro-bono effort with San Francisco Ballet looking at
their marketing-based opportunities. Lareina is a
frequent industry speaker; she is passionate about
women in leadership and is the McKinsey sponsor
of @LeanInOrg. Follow @lareinayee

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