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All Learning Comes to Use
The New York Times, October 31, 2009
ELLEN ZIMILES Chief executive, Daylight Forensic and Advisory, Manhattan
AGE 49
ALWAYS WITH HER BlackBerry and reading glasses
RECENTLY READ ‘Power Ambition Glory’ by Steve Forbes and John Prevas
I GREW up in Brooklyn, one of four children. My father was a project manager for an advertising agency. We probably had less money than I realized. I didn’t know that my mother waited until Friday to go food shopping because that’s when my father could give her money.
When I was about 7, my father taught me a lesson I’ve never forgotten about standing up for yourself. When we were taking a walk during the High Holy Days, six or seven teenagers on a corner started yelling ethnic slurs. My father walked up to the group and calmly asked if they had a problem. He defused the situation in a few seconds. After majoring in speech pathology and audiology as an undergraduate, I got a law degree and worked at a New York law firm. I worked on a case with Read More.
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