HARRIET TUMBAN

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." 

Fearless Harriet Tubman led hundreds to freedom in the North along the route of the Underground Railroad. Being born a slave, on rumours that she was about to be sold, Harriet fled to Philadelphia, leaving behind her family. In December 1850 she made her way to Baltimore, Maryland, whence she led her sister and two children to freedom. That journey was the first of some 19 increasingly dangerous forays into Maryland in which, over the next decade, she conducted upward of 300 fugitive slaves. By her extraordinary courage, ingenuity, and persistence, it has been said that she never lost a fugitive she was leading to freedom.

ANNE FRANK

"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful."

The story of Anne Frank is one of the most harrowing yet brave stories of Jewish oppression under the Third Reich. Anne along with her sister Margot, mother Edith, and father Otto sheltered in a "Secret Annex" behind a bookcase in Otto's former place of business. Annes diary recounts the trials and tribulations of life in confinement, never ending fear of discovery, and the hopes and dreams of a young woman. In 1999, Time named Anne Frank among the heroes and icons of the 20th century on their list The Most Important People of the Century, stating: "With a diary kept in a secret attic, she braved the Nazis and lent a searing voice to the fight for human dignity."

JUNKO TABEI

"Everest for me, and I believe for the world is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream."

Junko Tabei is a Japanese mountaineer and educator. She is known as the first woman to climb not only Mount Everest, but also the Seven Summits (the highest peaks on all seven continents). Defying mid-century sexism, and cultural expectations for women - especially pronounced in her home country of Japan - Tabei went on to perform these feats of remarkable skill, bravery, and fitness. Junko leaves behind a legacy of profound human achievement, environmental activism, and her tireless efforts to make the the mountains a space where women are welcomed and respected.

SUSAN B ANTHONY

"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand."

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a fundamental role in the women's suffrage movement. In addition to her profound women's rights activism, she was a staunch abolitionist - founding the American Equal Rights Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both women and African Americans. Susan B Anthony is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the woman's suffrage movement.

MARIE CURIE

"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy."

Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. As the first of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields after discovering polonium and radium, using techniques she invented for isolating radioactive isotopes. Professional science until fairly recently was a man’s world, and in Curie’s time it was rare for a woman even to participate in academic physics, never mind triumph over it.

ROSA PARKS

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would also be free."

Known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks sparked sparked one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott to end racial segregation of public facilities. Then an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Rosa Parks stepped onto a bus Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of sitting in the back of the bus, which was designated for African Americans, she sat in the front. When the bus started to fill up with white passengers, the bus driver asked Parks to move. She refused.  was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America, and made her an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere.

GLORIA STEINEM

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist journalist and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1956, she earned the Chester Bowles Fellowship, which enabled her to spend two years studying and researching in India. Her time abroad inspired an interest in grassroots activism, which would later manifest itself in her work with the women’s liberation movement and the Equal Rights Amendment. Steinem later became a columnist for New York magazine reporting on political campaigns and progressive social issues, including the women’s liberation movement and was also a co-founder of Ms. magazine. Steinem’s life has been dedicated to the cause of women’s rights, as she led marches and toured the country as an in-demand speaker.

SYNDI ZAIGER 

Syndi Zaiger is the founder of Nest. Since its creation in 2014, she has been passionately working to build an innovative and creative boutique real estate firm based on a model that is focused around a talented team that offer more services and expertise to their clients. With an entrepreneurial spirit, Syndi has a 20 year career in marketing and brand design. Concurrently she has been a developer of real estate projects in the form of developing mixed use artist space from underutilized buildings. Throughout this time Syndi observed the changes in the real estate industry and noted a deficiency in the traditional big box real estate firm business structure. Blending her career experience of marketing and real estate, Syndi developed a truly unique model out of her home base in Cape Ann, Massachusetts.

KAIT O'SULLIVAN 

Combining her background as a licensed real estate professional and her extensive marketing, event and project management experience, Kait joined the Nest team as its broker’s assistant. Kait supports our agents throughout the transaction process, ensuring that our clients have the best experience possible through the buying and selling processes.

A former NCAA All-American in track and still a competitive runner, Kait is always on the go, looking forward, and developing efficient and maximizing strategies that get her (and us) through the finish line successfully. 

JACKIE WELSH

A Massachusetts native, Jackie’s love for the North Shore comes from spending childhood summers frequenting the beaches on Cape Ann. When she, her husband, and two dogs moved up from the Boston area in 2015 to call Rockport their home, they couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. Jackie brings with her over 25 years’ corporate human resources experience.  Having spent most of her career helping to build fast-paced, entrepreneurial companies, Jackie’s diligence, energy, and enthusiasm for meeting and helping people is second to none.  With her knack for bridging communication and understanding the needs of others, she looks forward to helping you find your place to call home in the specialness of Cape Ann.