Good morning! Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is not running to be Canada's next prime minister, DA Fani Willis appeals her disqualification from Trump election-interference case, and female founders offer aid to Los Angeles fire victims.
- How to help. After wildfires burned 62 square miles and 12,000 structures in southern California, killing at least 16 people and displacing thousands of families, people have jumped into action to help. That includes female founders and business leaders eager to offer their time, products, and services to people in need.
This tragedy has impacted so many people, from the now-devastated historically Black community of Altadena—where Black families were able to buy homes amid housing discrimination elsewhere—to the families of the Pacific Palisades. In the Most Powerful Women universe, some familiar names were affected. Bozoma Saint John, the former Netflix, Uber, and Apple exec, shared that her home burned as part of the fires. Halogen Ventures general partner Jesse Draper has been documenting the devastation of her community in the Palisades; her firm's office burned down. Molly Baz, the chef who recently launched a mayonnaise brand and was a voice for pregnant women after her ad campaign for lactation cookies was banned from Times Square, shared that her home is gone. Ali Wyatt, who cofounded the Female Founder Collective with Rebecca Minkoff, also lost her home to the fires.
