Dream wild: imagining yourself out of poverty | Michelle Herrera Mulligan | TEDxBarnardCollege

What would you do if you received an email offering the career opportunity of a lifetime? Jump for joy, or run for cover? Michelle Herrera Mulligan almost pressed delete. Now as the Editor of Cosmo Latina, after years of battling her own self-doubt, Herrera Mulligan presents her three steps for stepping out of preconceived notions and into the arms of success. You are only three steps away from “dreaming wild.”

As the Editor-in-Chief of Cosmo For Latinas, Michelle Herrera Mulligan is an influencer who reaches more than two million women every month. Her essays and reporting have appeared in the New York Times, Glamour, Time, and the award-winning anthology "Count on Me: Tales of Sisterhoods and Fierce Friendships and Borderline Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and Cultural Shifting" a collection of stories she also co-edited. She dedicates her spare time to trying to decipher financial planning.

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