Eve
Halimi

I am the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Alinea Invest. I am originally French and born in Paris but have grown up living in London, Tel Aviv and now New York.  As I started interning in Finance both on the buy and sell side, I was extremely frustrated by the fact that none of my girlfriends at Barnard were investing or talking about investing while all my guy friends had been investing with Robinhood and Coinbase since the age of 15.

Anam Lakhani

I am the co-founder and co-CEO of Alinea Invest. The world of finance and investing was always an obscure mystery to me, but I was fascinated and wanted to learn more. As I went further into my journey, I realized there is no place for women like me to come together, learn and encourage each other to move forward in our investing journeys.

Natalie Putnam: A Day In The Life Of A CEO

marissa
papaconstantinou

She made her Paralympic Games debut at age 16 in Rio. She made an impressive international debut a year earlier as she finished seventh in the 200m and eighth in the 100m at the 2015 IPC World Championships. Born without her right foot, she’s always participated in sport and enjoys soccer and basketball along with her Para athletics career.

Papacontanstinou took up Para athletics at age 11 at the Phoenix Track Club in Scarborough, Ont., and soon after was fitted with her first running blade.

Brooke Miccio: Entering Influencer World

haley
hoffman-smith

Haley is an author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur and model. She passionate about helping other achieve their Big Ideas and the dreams they have for their lives. My book, Her Big Idea, motivates women to follow the little nudge inside of them for that one thing they want to start. She is also a Brown University graduate 

brooke
miccio

Brooke Miccio is a YouTuber, Influencer, fellow Podcaster and overall social media queen! At the mer age of 22 she has finished college and grown a hefty fan base of over 200K subscribers on her Youtube channel. On her episode she explains the business side of "influencing" and how she turned it into a full time job!

Abi
roman

I am a fully certified personal trainer and fitness nutrition specialist. I am a Canadian Bikini Bodybuilding Champion and have competed in 13 Bikini Bodybuilding competitions around North America. I am the owner and founder of Abi Roman Fitness, a health and wellness business helping individuals both locally and internationally to achieve their fitness goals. I work with clients both 1:1 and online for their training and nutrition needs.

Natalie
putnam

Natalie Putnam is a logistics executive with over 35 years of experience in the trucking, warehousing, eCommerce fulfillment and rail logistics industries. She is currently the CEO of Delivery Circle. In Ms. Putnam’s most recent role she was Chief Commercial Officer at Verst Logistics, where she led the companies sales & marketing strategy along with oversight for fleet and brokerage operations.

Marjorie King: Sogal foundation 

Stephanie
florio

Stephanie Florio is one of the co-founders of Swob Inc., an award-winning social recruitment platform. In April 2012, Stephanie graduated from York University and in April 2014, graduated from Seneca College from the Creative Advertising program. Stephanie has worked as Project Coordinator, and as an Account Executive.

haley hoffman-smith: dream big

Kelsey
irvine

Kelsey is the Creative Director and a founding partner of Birch Babe, a plant-based & plastic-free skin and body care company, handmade in Ontario. She is the creative mind behind the complete rebrand and is the vision and voice of @birchbabenaturals on Instagram. Through her diverse experiences, Kelsey has learned that the best approach is to stay humble, embrace being a beginner (because you only get to be a beginner once!), and lead with love. 

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 Nicole
Lee

Nicole has been a member of the Integrated Marketing Team at the National Hockey League for the past 12 years.  In her current role as Senior Director, she oversees a partner portfolio of global brands working with them to strategically build successful hockey-themed marketing campaigns.  She leads a team tasked with delivering fully integrated activations including broadcast/digital media, retail, experiential and first-class hospitality at North American NHL Jewel Events. 

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Andrea
Ubell

Andrea has a Master degree in Social Work from Wilfred Laurier University, a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carlton University and post-graduate certificates in gerontology and human services management from the University of Toronto.

Since 1992 Andrea Ubell is the Director, Programs and Client Services at the Alzheimer Society of York Region, where she is responsible for the delivery of the Caregiver Support & Education programs and the DAY Centre programs.  Each year this agency provides support to approximately 2000 families per year.

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 Gloria 
CHou

Gloria’s mission is to help entrepreneurs achieve more than they thought was possible by transforming their product pitch into a press-worthy story so they can become recognized industry leaders. She believes PR shouldn’t be a luxury item only later-stage companies can benefit from, so she helps visionary founders “hack” their own PR so they’ll never have to pay for a single ad or depend on expensive agencies to do it for them. 

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Chloe
Elise

Chloe is a Money Coach on a mission to show millennials that finances can be easy and fun. Chloe helps her clients get ahead with money, pay off debt + save for those big future investments.  Her mission at Deeper Than Money, is to show you that finances can be easy and fun and that you are capable of creating massive wealth.

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Lauren
Kerr

Lauren is a Life and Mindset Coach, Author, Blogger, Speaker and Mentor for thousands of women around the world who want to create a ‘Life Above Zero’.  Lauren’s passion for helping women make mindset manageable, health holistic and life liberating has inspired one of the most impressive global movements around the world being ‘Babes in Business’ and the podcast ‘Babes Talking Business’ .

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Marjorie
King

Marjorie King leads the SoGal Foundation's strategic partnerships globally. She most recently joins us from the Network of Executive Women where she Achieved largest financial investment in organization's history from a corporate partner specifically for talent development programs. Grew a key corporate partnership by 281% in revenue in a single year and was recognized as 1 of 2 "Rising Stars" from the company in 2019.   

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Andrea Ubell: Alzheimer’s Society of York Region 

Karli Hannan: Stay true to yourself

 Karli
Hannan

Karli Hannan is a Sales and Marketing professional who believes successful partnerships are rooted inauthentic experiences and win-win solutions. Karli is the Vice President of Sales & Marketing at FastcaseInc, a legal technology company based in Washington DC. Karli’s career has been focused on packagingand selling digital content in new ways as hardware technology and internet speeds have evolved.Karli’s passion for authentic and lasting experiences started during the Walt Disney World College

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 Angela
Chen

Angela loves inspiring and empowering students & new grads. Professionally, she's a Senior Consultant at Deloitte and is focused on transforming the public sector to ensure equitable access to services for all Canadians. She was also recently seconded to the Future of Canada Center as a policy advisor, where she advanced the discussion on affordable housing and economic development.

Personally, Angela is the founder of Advice By AC (@advice.by.ac on Instagram), a collaborative career mentorship community that inspires and informs consultants throughout their journey. 

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Angela Chen: Imposter Syndrome  

Tiffany Rioflorido: brand management tips

CLEA SIMOS: NEWS FLASH  

CLEA 
simos

Clea Simos is the U.S. Managing Editor for Bloomberg TV where she coordinates the editorial activities and planning for the newsroom. Previously she was Bloomberg TV's Executive Producer of interviews for EMEA and was based in London. She has worked in a number of newsrooms around the globe including CTV, BNN, CNBC and Curtin FM. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ryerson University and has completed the Canadian Securities Course, the base securities licensing requirement in Canada. She is currently based in Manhattan. 

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Jennifer Sutto: nft 101

ALEXIS
ROBINSON

Alexis Robinson is the Government Assessments Program Manager for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Assurance in the Washington, DC area.  For the past 10 years, she has served her Federal Government clients by performing financial statement, performance, or compliance audits or advising them towards audit readiness.   She graduated with double Bachelors of Science degrees in Accounting and Information Systems from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, College Park.     She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Project Management Professional (PMP). 

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ALEXIS ROBINSON: AWS CYBER security   

Sophie Gray: Mental wellness

Alisha arora: Ai + Mental health

Alisha
ARORA

Alisha Arora is an ambitious 14 year old on a mission to leverage AI to better support youth mental health.  She is currently researching at MIT’s AI lab to diagnose mental illness. Alisha is also working towards detecting suicidal ideation in social media content to prevent suicide. As an ardent philanthropist she founded her own non-profit organization, The HopeSisters. Their passion for supporting children in foster care has lead them to gain recognition on national television and from government officials. 

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Daphne Baldassari: PhD in diversity interventions

Tiffany
Rioflorido

In third year university, I partnered with a Ryerson alumni, to create a social media marketing boutique agency that served start-ups and new businesses. We offered subsidized marketing costs still with the same professional services and worked out of York University’s business incubator.  I had to take part-time courses at Ryerson, but never put my education on hold.  Today, I’ve finally graduated and am currently a candidate to an MBA, am studying Chinese at Ryerson as a certificate, and run the accounts for Huawei and my clients at my new founded agency - FLO. 

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Jennifer
sutto

Jennifer is an NFT Collector, NBA Top Shot OG, Social/Marketing for Evaluate Market (an NFT analyzer site), and the co-host of NFT Catcher Podcast. She is a great resource in the NFT space 

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Sophie
Gray

Sophie Gray is the founder of DiveThru, a mental wellness app that helps you take charge of your mental health. DiveThru works with mental health professionals to create interactive courses and tangible tools that help people lead a mentally healthier and more fulfilling life.

Sophie also shares her work to an audience of over 400,000 through her personal social channels.

Her work has been featured in Cosmopolitan, People, Women’s Health, Refinery29, Marie Claire, Yahoo, Shape, Self, and many more.

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Daphné Baldassari

Daphné Baldassari is a Ph.D. candidate in Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. research fellow at the Institute of Gender and the Economy. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms helping improve the efficacy of diversity interventions and foster gender equality within organizations. More specifically, she investigates whether and how structural interventions disrupt gender inequality within organizations at the crossroad between strategy and behavioral economics. Her background in engineering and economics has inspired her graduate work to design interventions with an evidence-based approach to reduce the persistent gender and racial differences.

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