Board Highlight: Ladies of Wisconsin Microfinance

Board Highlight: Ladies of Wisconsin Microfinance

October 17, 2024

Right here at Wisconsin Microfinance, we predict you will need to elevate up ladies’s voices all all over the world, and likewise right here at house. 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 typically their voices have been ignored. For years, ladies had been silent in skilled locations which has brought about their modern concepts to by no means come to fruition. 

As a result of our mission targets primarily ladies all over the world, we predict that our management crew ought to replicate that. With a majority woman-led board we are able to 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 fascinating 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 influence 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 Government Director and UW-Madison Alumni. Now, Jane works because the Government Director of Clear Fuels Michigan the place she works to assist the advance of the clear transportation business. 

Annalise Ebert is a former summer season intern with Wisconsin Microfinance. Annalise now works as an Financial Marketing consultant for litigation circumstances in New York Metropolis. Annalise’s ardour for ladies’s empowerment aligns completely with Wisconsin Microfinance.

Felis Hong first was desirous about worldwide advocacy when she spent a summer season in Vietnam as a medical translator. Felis is now working onerous in her residency at Northwestern. She was additionally a giant 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 Shopper Safety (DATCP), and Government Director of Gathering Waters. 

Dr. Rhyomi Sellnow is a medical skilled who shares scientific info with physicians and sufferers. She is keen about advocating for affected person communities together with sufferers with uncommon illnesses. Dr. Sellnow is certainly one of our new board appointees in 2024!

Dr. Sara Fitzpatrick works with well being plans, hospitals, well being programs, and employers, serving to them optimize pharmacy profit methods. Sara could be very keen about folks, 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 certainly one 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 are going to proceed to boost ladies’s voices right here in Wisconsin, but in addition all over the world.