Postcards
On the road in South Africa
June 22, 2010: 3:11 PM ETby Patricia Sellers
I constantly remind myself how lucky I am, as an editor at large at Fortune, to meet amazing people pretty much every day.
Yesterday I arrived in South Africa. It's my first visit here, and it's beautiful. Later this week, I'll be in Cape Town with Bill Clinton, Katie Couric , Charlie Rose, former Viacom (VIAB), CEO Tom Freston, former Coca-Cola (KO) CEO Neville Isdell and such stars of the Fortune Most Powerful Women community as DuPont (DD) CEO Ellen Kullman, bank-industry analyst Meredith Whitney and NBC Universal (GE) exec Lauren Zalaznick.
But before I head to Cape Town on Thursday, I'm west of Johannesburg spending time with a remarkable woman named Susan Rammekwa, who is an alum of the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Susan runs an orphanage, the Tshepang Programme for Orphans and Vulnerable Children, for 249 kids. One of the three Silicon Valley women who mentored Susan last year, a hotshot lawyer named Kathi Lutton, is with me. Susan's other mentors, Google (GOOG) executives Susan Wojcicki and Megan Smith, are with us here in spirit.
In addition to heading litigation for law firm Fish & Richardson, Kathi happens to be a fantastic photographer. Here are a few of the 1749 pictures she snapped yesterday. Yes, that is not a typo...1749 pictures...
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Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.
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