Join the Worldly Women as we delve into workplace equality with our panel of speakers that will share insights, stories, and strategies for overcoming challenges that women often face in professional settings. It's an opportunity to share experiences, build supportive networks, and collectively foster more inclusive workplaces.
Cost to attend:
General Admission: $5
(WWC official members can utilize their member code for registration discount.)
We welcome you to join us at Huss Brewing to mingle over drinks after the event
Event Agenda
5:30 pm | Welcome from CO+HOOTS & Brief Tour
5:45 pm | Panel with Discussion led by featured Panelists "Thriving Amidst Challenges: Navigating Biases in the Workplace"
6:45 pm | Panel Conclusion & Invitation to continue mingling at Huss Brewing
7:00 pm | Interested attendees meet at Huss Brewing for no host happy hour
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Tanushree (Tanu) Ghosh
Director, Manufacturing Supply Chain & Operations, Intel;
Founder and Board Chair, Her Rights Global;
Author, Beyond #Me Too, From An-Other Land
Tanushree Ghosh (Ph. D. Cornell University) is Director at Intel Corp., a social activist, and an author. Her blog posts, op-eds, poems, and stories are her efforts to provoke thoughts, especially towards issues concerning social justice. She is a contributor (past and present) to several popular e-zines incl. The Huffington Post US (where her first post on returning to India as the mother of a daughter went viral and was picked up by Yahoo News and where she subsequently authored many successful op-eds on gender, Syria war, mental health, the western media’s coverage of the Brazil Olympic and so on), The Logical Indian, Youth Ki Awaaz, Tribune India, Women’s Web, Thrive Global, and Cafe Dissensus (where she hosted her own segment on social satire titled Black Light). Her literary resume includes poems and stories featured in national and international magazines (Words Pauses and Noises, UK; TUCK, Glimmer Train Honorable mention) as well as inclusion in over a dozen anthologies such as Defiant Dreams (Oprah 2016 reading list placeholder) and The Best Asian Short Stories 2017 (published out of Singapore by Kitaab). Her first single author book is From An-Other Land (Readomania publishing, India). The work was featured on KJZZ, NPR. Beyond #MeToo (Sage Publications) is her second single author work. She is the founder and director of Her Rights Inc. a non-profit committed
to furthering the cause of gender equality and frequently speaks on human rights, social justice, advancement and diversity and inclusion in corporate and non-profits panels. She has been featured on several international podcasts (including the prestigious Women In Manufacturing from Jacket Media) and in the Fall 2021 Diversity Woman Magazine Power 100 list of 100 extraordinary women. She was a winner of the Orange Flower Award (2021) for her short story in the LGBTQ category and was the Winner of Intel’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Advocate of the year for Greater America (2022). Her works have also been nominated for several over social category awards in India. Tanushree is mother to a 11-year old and lives in Chandler, AZ.
Lori Severson
Coach, Consultant & Author
Lori worked in the big business world for over 20 years on the people side of business. She launched her own business as a leadership coach & consultant in 2006, focused on the development of women leaders. She did this while simultaneously adopting a baby internationally. In 2016 she felt called to write a book and published her Amazon best-selling novel: An Unexpected Journey, One Woman’s Whale Tale in the summer of 2017. She has served on the board and/or volunteered for the following organizations: The Girls Rule Foundation; Athena Valley of the Sun; Arizona Women’s Conference and AZ Rain-Rescuing Animals in Need.
She is committed to helping girls and women increase self-esteem and successfully navigate their unique leadership journeys in this world. Raising a teen girl is how she practices at home. While she pursues coaching, consulting and plotting to overthrow the patriarchy, she lives in the desert Southwest with her husband, 17-year-old daughter, three cats, a LOT of books and even more ideas.
Daphine Willingham,
Chair for the Board of Directors, National African-American Women’s Institute, Inc. NAAWLI
Daphine Willingham serves as the Chair for the Board of Directors of the National African-American Women’s Institute, Inc. NAAWLI is a non-profit organization that helps leaders accelerate and elevate their impact by providing an immersive learning experience uniquely designed to support, transform, and empower African-American women with aspirations to lead at the executive level. NAAWLI was founded in 2000 by Dr. Gloria Scott, former National President of Girls Scouts of America, and Dr. Zulma Barrios, former Vice President at the Gallup Leadership Institute.
Professionally, Daphine has extensive leadership experience with State Farm Insurance company, including previously serving as National Chair of State Farm’s African American employee resource group. She has recently returned to the East Valley to open an independent insurance agency on April 1st.
Daphine has an undergraduate degree from the University of Florida, where she dual majored in Finance and Risk Management/Insurance. She obtained her MBA with an emphasis on Project Management, as well as her Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant designations.
Personally, Daphine is married with two children and is an active member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., where she has served in multiple executive board roles. The organization aims to enhance the quality of life for women and their families in the U.S. and globally through community service, civic, and social action.