The Goldie Initiative® Expansion Continues with Record-breaking 2024-25 Goldie Scholar® Cohort
Organization Welcomes Female Graduate Students from 18 Universities
CHICAGO, IL – August 19, 2024 – The Goldie B. Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative (‘The Goldie Initiative®”), a nonprofit organization dedicated to preparing women to advance as leaders in commercial real estate by providing financial and professional support, recently announced scholarship winners for the upcoming school year. Since 2007, The Goldie Initiative has created a professional community of women with extraordinary academic and leadership potential, known as Goldie Scholars.
With a unique strategy of scholarship, mentoring, networking and leadership skills development, The Goldie Initiative cultivates talented women into future leaders. The program supports women pursuing graduate-level studies in business, law, design, or management, with a focus on real estate.
An unprecedented thirty-eight Goldie Scholars representing 18 universities nationally, were selected this month, for the prestigious scholarship program with The Goldie Initiative for the 2024-25 academic year. Notably, this year’s cohort proudly welcomes 5 new graduate institutions to its ranks: Boston University, George Washington University, The Ohio State University, University of Virgina, and Yale University.
New in 2024, is a partnership with the Debbie Frank Legacy Fund, which also includes CREW Chicago. The Debbie Frank Legacy Fund/CREW Chicago/Goldie Scholar, Teresa Amaro – a student at DePaul University – was chosen from among the 2024-25 cohort of Goldie Scholars via collaborative efforts. Thanks to this generous contribution, the 2024-2025 Goldie Scholar cohort increases in size and impact. Debbie Frank, who passed away in 2020, was a respected and accomplished leader in the Chicago area Commercial Real Estate community, and she was passionate about helping women succeed in the field.
The incoming cohort of Goldie Scholars will be celebrated and introduced to the community at the 8th annual Goldie Gala, on Thursday, September 19, 2024, at Union Station Chicago. This year’s Shero award winner is Molly McShane, CEO of The McShane Companies.
The 2024-25 cohort of Goldie Scholars represent the following universities:
Boston University
Questrom School of Business
Columbia University
Columbia Business School
Cornell University
SC Johnson College of Business
DePaul University
Kellstadt Graduate School of Business
George Washinton University
Corcoran School of Arts and Design
Georgetown University
McDonough School of Business
School of Continuing Studies
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
Iowa State University
Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Center for Real Estate
Northwestern University
Kellogg School of Management
The Ohio State University
Fisher College of Business
University of Chicago
Booth School of Business
University of Illinois-Chicago
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
University of Miami
School of Law
University of Notre Dame
Mendoza College of Business
University of Virginia
Darden School of Business
Yale University
School of Law