Board Focus: Wisconsin Girls of Microfinance
October 17, 2024
Right here at Wisconsin Microfinance, we consider it is necessary to carry up ladies’s voices world wide, and right here at house as properly. That is why we’re so proud to have 9 great ladies on our board of administrators. We will use your expertise to create efficient methods to develop our group and assist ladies world wide.
You will need to have ladies’s voices in locations of energy as a result of too usually their voices have been ignored. For years, ladies remained silent in skilled fields, ensuing of their revolutionary concepts by no means changing into a actuality.
Since our mission primarily speaks to ladies world wide, we consider our management workforce ought to mirror that. With a board led largely by ladies we will attempt to perceive the feminine expertise past borders. We will relate to our debtors on a good deeper stage and may have fascinating and numerous discussions.
We wish to spotlight the great ladies on the Wisconsin Microfinance Board of Administrators!
LeeAnn Glover is our Secretary, but additionally serves as Director of Actual Property and Workforce Options. She was one of many founding sustainability members at American Household Insurance coverage. Along with being part of Wisconsin Microfinance, LeeAnn additionally served on the board of administrators of the Wisconsin Sustainability Enterprise Council and was a 2012 Nelson Institute Fellow.
quick emmy is a passionate chief on local weather and environmental influence groups. She works as a Senior Sustainable Enterprise Strategist at American Household Insurance coverage, the place she continues to implement local weather and resilience packages throughout the corporate. She additionally helps different nonprofit organizations, together with incapacity advocacy and ladies’s empowerment.
Jane McCurry is the previous CEO of Wisconsin Microfinance and a UW-Madison alumnus. Jane now serves as Government Director of Clear Fuels Michigan, the place she works to help the development of the clear transportation trade.
Annalize Ebert is a former summer time intern at Wisconsin Microfinance. Annalize now works as an financial litigation advisor in New York Metropolis. Annalize’s ardour for girls’s empowerment aligns completely with Wisconsin Microfinance.
Felis Hong She first grew to become curious about worldwide advocacy when she spent a summer time in Vietnam as a medical translator. Felis is now arduous at work in his residency at Northwestern. It additionally contributed tremendously to our 2023 Annual Report.
Victoria Elkin is the founding govt director of the Lake Michigan Fund and has additionally served as coverage initiative advisor to the Secretary of the Wisconsin Division of Agriculture, Commerce and Client Safety (DATCP) and govt director of Gathering Waters.
Dr. Rhyomi Sellnow is a medical skilled who shares medical info with docs and sufferers. She is obsessed with advocating for affected person communities, together with sufferers with uncommon illnesses. Dr. Sellnow is among the new board members in 2024!
Dr Sara Fitzpatrick works with well being plans, hospitals, well being techniques and employers, serving to them optimize pharmacy profit methods. Sara is obsessed with individuals, mentoring college students and serving to new graduates and colleagues determine instruments and connections to advance their careers. Sara can be one of many new board appointees in 2024!
Loveleen Kaur is a former Wisconsin Microfinance intern whereas attending the College of Wisconsin-Madison. Now, Loveleen is an space supervisor at Amazon. She is obsessed with ladies’s entrepreneurship and brings her analytical and inventive expertise to this discussion board!
We’re very grateful to have these gifted ladies on our board of administrators and can proceed to carry up ladies’s voices right here in Wisconsin, but additionally world wide.
