Denise Koessler and Sheryl Sandberg in the USA Today

Wed, 04 Jun 2014 11:02:45 -0400

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/01/13/sheryl-sandberg-lean-in-for-graduates-new-version-of-book/4387847/ "Lean In For Graduates, an updated version of Sheryl Sandberg's best-selling book on empowerment, is coming to bookstores in April, Facebook's chief operating officer told USA TODAY. "It's wonderful (the book) sparked this amount of conversation," Sandberg said in a phone interview. "But even more important, because of this conversation, women and men are taking steps and changing their lives." ... Denise Koessler, 27, leads a 25-member circle at the University of Tennessee, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering and computer science. "Our mission is to recruit, mentor and retain women (in our department)," she says. "Our numbers are stark" — just 6% of the undergraduate class in her department is female." Learn more about Lean In at http://leanin.org/ and Lean In for Graduates at: http://leanin.org/graduates/