A life enlightened: what does that mean? Melissa and I were pondering this on our recent trip to New York City (there we are, pictured in Dumbo, Brooklyn) as we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan in the autumn sun, observing its steel structure and webs of cables that support more than 120,000 vehicles, 4,000 pedestrians, and 2,600 bicyclists every day (according to TripSavvy).

Pausing for a moment along the 1.1-mile walk, we realized the symbolism in what the legacies of these transcendent women from the past, like Juana Inés de la Cruz, the history of the Brooklyn Bridge and the future of what we are planning for the ELEANORA platform all have in common: connection, innovation and purpose.