In this week's Wednesday Five: Screenwriter Annie Mumolo on Life After 'Bridesmaids'; Can An App Teach Mindfulness?; Samantha Bee Needs to Conquer the Political Conventions; Eight Words That Led This Woman To Her Perfect (Male) Mentor; and from the Women's Voices Archives — "Artist and Designer Susan Ritter Finds Beauty in the Natural World."

June is National Immigrant Heritage Month. In this week's Wednesday five, we celebrate extraordinary women who are first and second generation Americans and who are using their lives in service to other women.

In this week's Wednesday Five: the Women Deliver Conference on the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women opens; Congress passes bill that allows WWII Women Air Force Service Pilots to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery; the women of Fast Company's list of the most creative people in business; Hoda Kotb offers valuable life lessons at her commencement speech to Tulane University's class of 2016; and the all-female Shakespeare production of 'Taming the Shrew' goes live this summer.

This year, 40 women made the list of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. While some of the more notable names might come as no surprise, we’re fascinated by the women whose names are not yet at the household level, but whose influence and impact are deeply felt around the world. Here are five women we look forward to following: Christina Figueres, Hope Jahren, Lori Robinson, Diana Natalicio, and Sunita Narain.

In this week's Wednesday Five, we share five of the most inspiring TED Talks by women — invested in creating a better world — from the new crop of 2016 innovative leaders who took to the stage at TED's annual gathering in Vancouver this February.

Single women are the most potent political force in America; Why fewer American women are married; Single women are big home buyers in Chicago; Why single women are quicker to jump into entrepreneurship; and Five questions single women would like to stop being asked.