In Her Words: Phylis Speedlin, Mother of Re-Invention

Grateful for the opportunities she has had to pursue her personal and professional ambitions, Phylis has advice for young women making their own life choices today.

I grew up in a small community in Ohio in a very economically challenged home. My mother was a single mom who raised five children on a waitress salary. Two of those children were severely handicapped. The first of our five siblings had Down syndrome, and my youngest brother, who was born in 1953, had a medical condition known as erythroblastosis fetali…