Dyllan McGee, founder and CEO of MAKERS, discusses the origins of ‘DNA of a MAKER’ and what individual traits make a great leader. The answer may surprise you! Plus, a special round of rapid fire questions with our host, Lilliana Vazquez.

Aileen Lee, one of the biggest names in tech, is the founder of Cowboy Ventures, one of the first venture capital firms launched by a woman. We discuss what traits have propelled her toward success, how she managed her own blindspots, and why this new generation of female leaders impresses and inspires her.

We sit down with Columbia and UCLA Law School professor Kimberlé Crenshaw. She’s a leading authority on civil rights and Black feminist legal thought, the force behind the #SayHerName campaign, which calls attention to police violence against Black women, and she also coined the term intersectionality.

Since launching in 2012, MAKERS has been helping to accelerate the women’s movement by sharing stories of real-life experiences that ignite passion and action. We’ve profiled hundreds of incredible women--and men, but mostly women--and have lately gotten to wondering: are there certain inherent traits that they all share? We set out to answer this question by sitting down with our MAKERS for in-depth, one-on-one conversations. We asked them about their DNA, and their surprising answers...