Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs Roundtable - 06/11/2024

Event description

Join us in celebrating women entrepreneurs and hear insights from other women small business owners on their successful entrepreneurship journey.  

SCORE Certified Mentor Kristin Sharpe, herself a successful business owner, will moderate a lively panel discussion with women entrepreneurs on:

• How they launched and grew their small businesses. 
• Challenges experienced and how they overcame them
• Advice for other current and prospective entrepreneurs

Don’t miss the keynote address by Edie Fraser, activist, leader, philanthropist, and woman in business powerhouse. Edie is the Chairman of Women Business Collaborative (WBCollaborative.org), a nonprofit created to accelerate equal position, pay, and power for all businesswomen. 32 attendees* will receive a complimentary copy of Edie’s latest book: "Women Mean Business".

This event is brought to you by the Lester, Muriel and Edie Fraser Women Entrepreneur Fund for SCORE.

Hosted by SCORE Washington DC.

*Recipients will be selected from a random drawing of webinar attendees who remain through the webinar close and will be notified by email following the webinar. Books will be mailed to the address entered on the event registration form. 

About the Presenters:

Kristin Sharpe founded, grew and subsequently sold an IT professional services firm with a nationwide presence. As a SCORE Certified Mentor, Kristin helps small businesses with planning, sales and marketing, finances, business growth, and exit strategies.

Dr. Charlene Brown is the Founder, Chief Health Officer, and CEO of a healthtech and edtech startup offering virtual clinical simulations for frontline healthcare worker training, starting with nursing assistants. They are partnering with the training programs that prepare students for certification.

Eva Cappelletti Chao is a professional concert violinist in nearly every way one can engage as a musician (Carnegie Hall, TV, CDs, Concertmaster, Soloist, performing for US Presidents and royalty, orchestral and tango tours around the world, Rock & Roll, Bluegrass, Jazz, and Musical Chaplaincy for Hospice). She is also a certified life coach, working specifically with classical musicians at every level and every stage of that journey from youth orchestras to college-level students to active to retired professional musicians. She founded her life coaching business, The Music of You, in 2022.

Meisha Rice is the Founder and CEO of the Whole Family Healing Group, a Black woman-owned business which offers a safe space for families and individuals within the family system, to heal from the many different life stressors associated with mental illness through therapy. The practice was built to accommodate whole family healing, as well as the healing of individuals within the family. They offer both virtual and in-person therapy and work hand-in-hand with medical doctors to address mental illness. They are also working to serve the Spanish-speaking community globally with translation.

LaTonia Rich is the Executive Director of the Tree of Hope Association (TOH), a completely volunteer-run organization that provides peer mentoring (both group and one-on-one), peer training, and social integration programming for people new to recovery. Peers essentially empower people in recovery to rebuild their lives, by connecting them to resources that make them whole -- whether it is a food bank or a physician. The goal is for that individual to walk away from their services after six months surrounded by a supportive community. 

Sandra Vazquez is a personal trainer who founded her business, SWT Fitness, to create a place where women could work out without the pressure of the presence of men. SWT Fitness, aka “Sistas Work Together,” is a fitness studio that exclusively caters to and enthusiastically promotes women’s fitness needs.  SWT Fitness’s mission statement is to provide a fitness environment exclusively for women that is safe, clean, and inviting. In addition, SWT’s goal is to foster a welcoming, encouraging, and supportive atmosphere in a first-class exercise facility.

Edie Fraser is the Board Chair of the non-profit Women Business Collaborative which works to accelerate women leaders in business. Edie had served as Managing Director of Diversified Search. Edie was Chairman & Founder of STEMconnector and its Million Women Mentors Initiative building the one stop communications and best practices Initiative for STEM. She served as a vice Chair of Diversified Search where she previously directed the Washington and government business. She brings to her role over four decades of experience in supporting diversity at the most senior levels of corporations.

Liz Sara has more than 30 years of experience in the national entrepreneurship community as a seasoned business executive, non-profit leader, startup company champion and angel investor. In January 2022, she became President of the SCORE Foundation, the philanthropic arm of SCORE which provides free mentoring and business programs to small business owners and entrepreneurs around the country. Prior to joining the Foundation, she successfully ran the strategy firm, Best Marketing LLC, that she founded in 2001.