Dear NAWBO leaders, members, and friends,
Spring is in the air and I can’t believe we’re closing out the first quarter of 2022! Time is flying. This month we celebrated International Women’s History month and many chapters held or are in the final planning stages of their annual awards. I was honored to attend NAWBO Santa Barbara’s Bravo awards and see so many of my NAWBO sisters in person again. What a wonderful time to celebrate the amazing accomplishments of our women business owners!
I am excited to see you all at the Kimpton Sawyer Hotel in Sacramento May 16-17 for our annual Propel conference. This year’s theme is Creating our Future Together: Innovation, Resilience, and Transformation. Come for inspiration, networking, advocacy, education, and more. Tickets go on sale in the next few days and we expect registration to fill quickly so please keep an eye out for updates! I can’t wait to be back together again in person and at a beautiful venue.
NAWBO-CA celebrates advocacy during Propel and we advocate for our members and women across California all year long. Please check out the fantastic bill tracking report put together by our own Lori Kammerer, linked below. NAWBO-CA is also pleased to join California Women Lawyers (CWL) in signing an amicus brief to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Meland v. Weber, in support of California Senate Bill 826. As you may remember, NAWBO-CA sponsored SB826, which has been successful in removing barriers to women serving on corporate boards and has resulted in significant increases in the number of women appointed. We look forward to continuing our support and thank CWL as we all work together to empower women.
I encourage you to check out a few opportunities to reconnect before we see one another in Sacramento. For those of you in Southern California, consider joining our NAWBO Inland Empire chapter at the Taste of NAWBO event this Saturday, April 2nd. I look forward to wine tasting, fabulous food, and even better company! For those in Northern California, please be sure to check out the Sacramento Valley chapter’s upcoming OWL Awards on April 14th, always a fabulous gala. I look forward to seeing you all soon!
Amber Wallace
NAWBO-CA President
President & CEO, Dowitcher Designs
Past President, NAWBO Santa Barbara
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Please join us for Propel where we will focus on this year's theme of Creating our Future Together: Innovation, Resilience, Transformation. Information about sessions and speakers are coming soon!
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Debora Wondercheck is a visionary corporate executive offering seventeen years of experience in strategic program implementation and development of culturally inclusive artistic training/education programs for K-12 youth. Debora is the Founder of the nationally awarded Arts & Learning Conservatory (ALC), which supplies artistic experiences to over forty schools in need of access to high quality performing arts. She has a proven track record in fundraising, public education, executive leadership, non-profit governance, community building, program development, and cross organizational development.
Her professional interests include arts education, sustainability, board development, and equitable access of the arts to under-represented communities. As the Chief Executive Officer of ALC, Debora provides direct oversight of the Audit, Budget and Finance, Compensation and CSR committee’s. Debora also serves on the boards of Arts Orange County, the Arts Administrators of the Orange County Department of Education, Philharmonic Society advisory board, and serves on both the Orange County Theatre Guild and Waldorf School of Orange County Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility committees.
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Courageous conversations are the start of any healing process. Join NAWBO and the National Federation for Just Communities (NFJC) of WNY, Inc. for a monthly virtual series of DEIB Circle events starting in November designed to empower, encourage and support you in your diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEI&B) journey.
We’ll explore:
- Ways we communicate with one another
- How to become better listeners (a skill we need now more than ever!)
- Social issues that impact our ability to empathize
- How to understand our differences
Become an active participant in overcoming the many divides that separate us! Each session will bring our community closer together in a DEIB Circle format for respectful dialogue with the goal of learning from and with one another. Sessions begin with large group discussions followed by facilitated small group conversations.
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SESSION DATES
Times: 3:00
Click on the dates to register
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Read the report below to see what bills we're tracking this month. |
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NAWBO-CA President Elect Schenae Rourk received the COMTO SOCAL award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the recent annual Hats Off Celebrating Women in Transportation event. She was acknowledged for her work to increase procurement opportunities for all businesses including businesses owned by women and people of color. Congrats Schenae!
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