Board Highlight: Girls of Wisconsin Microfinance
October 17, 2024
Right here at Wisconsin Microfinance, we predict you will need to elevate up ladies’s voices all around the globe, and likewise right here at dwelling. That’s the reason we’re so proud to have 9 great ladies on our board. We are able to use their experience to create efficient methods to develop our group and assist ladies worldwide.
It is very important have ladies’s voices in locations of energy as a result of all too usually their voices have been ignored. For years, ladies have been silent in skilled locations which has prompted their revolutionary concepts to by no means come to fruition.
As a result of our mission targets primarily ladies around the globe, we predict that our management crew ought to mirror that. With a majority woman-led board we will attempt to perceive the feminine expertise throughout borders. We’re capable of relate to our debtors on a fair deeper degree, and we’re capable of have attention-grabbing and numerous discussions.
We want to shine a highlight on the great ladies on the board of Wisconsin Microfinance!
LeeAnn Glover is our Secretary, however she additionally works as a Actual Property and Office Options Director. She was one of many founding members of sustainability at American Household Insurance coverage. Along with being part of Wisconsin Microfinance, LeeAnn has additionally served on the Board of the Wisconsin Sustainability Enterprise Council and was a Fellow of the Nelson Institute in 2012.
Emmy Swift is a passionate chief in local weather and environmental affect groups. She works as a senior strategist for sustainable enterprise at American Household Insurance coverage the place she continues to implement enterprise-wide local weather and resiliency programming. She additionally helps different non-profits together with incapacity advocacy and ladies’s empowerment.
Jane McCurry is a former Wisconsin Microfinance Govt Director and UW-Madison Alumni. Now, Jane works because the Govt Director of Clear Fuels Michigan the place she works to assist the advance of the clear transportation trade.
Annalise Ebert is a former summer time intern with Wisconsin Microfinance. Annalise now works as an Financial Marketing consultant for litigation instances in New York Metropolis. Annalise’s ardour for ladies’s empowerment aligns completely with Wisconsin Microfinance.
Felis Hong first was excited by worldwide advocacy when she spent a summer time in Vietnam as a medical translator. Felis is now working onerous in her residency at Northwestern. She was additionally an enormous contributor to our 2023 Annual Report.
Vicki Elkin is the founding govt director of the Fund for Lake Michigan and has additionally labored as a Coverage Initiatives 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 scientific data with physicians and sufferers. She is keen about advocating for affected person communities together with sufferers with uncommon ailments. Dr. Sellnow is one in every of our new board appointees in 2024!
Dr. Sara Fitzpatrick works with well being plans, hospitals, well being methods, and employers, serving to them optimize pharmacy profit methods. Sara could be very keen about individuals, with this she is a mentor to college students and assists new graduates and colleagues by figuring out instruments and connections to advance their careers. Sara can also be one in every of our new board appointees in 2024!
Loveleen Kaur is a former intern for Wisconsin Microfinance when she was attending the College of Wisconsin-Madison. Now, Loveleen is an Space Supervisor for Amazon. She is keen about ladies’s entrepreneurship and brings each her analytical and artistic abilities to this board!
We’re so grateful to have these gifted ladies on our board and we’ll proceed to lift ladies’s voices right here in Wisconsin, but in addition around the globe.