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The Ambition Interviews: A Table of Contents

Seven stories about women who were all set to rule the world—and how their careers shook out
Source: Katie Martin / The Atlantic

Today The Atlantic is presenting a short series of essays we’re calling The Ambition Interviews.

The Ambition Interviews began as a project between two friends, Hana Schank and Elizabeth Wallace, who had attended Northwestern University in the early ’90s. Whatbrilliant, hard-working friends from their college days? Had life come together as they had hoped? They reached out to 37 other members of their sorority’s graduating class, and those conversations became the foundation of the essays we now present.

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