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Adeleke Omitowoju

Venture Advisor

1863 Ventures (formerly "Project 500") is a business development program whose mission is to accelerate new majority entrepreneurs from high potential to high growth. Our goal is to recruit and retain at least 500 diverse businesses to receive skills training, capacity building, mentoring and networking to advance the economic success of their businesses and their communities.

Founder & Director

Femme Fatale DC

FFDC is the District's women-only fashion, art, beauty and wellness collective and platform. Our goal is to build a local community of women creatives, small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs, and support them in their artistic and business endeavors.

Adriana Crawford

Principal, Founder

Anaford Consulting

Our mission is simple yet bold: provide organizational development and strategy consulting to nonprofit and community-based organizations serving disadvantaged communities.
As a black woman-owned business, we know what it means to work at maximum capacity with limited resources, and we're committed to helping small nonprofit businesses realize their missions without compromising their values.

Chaia, Farm-to-Taco

Chaia's "farm to taco" is a unique relationship between farmers and urban street-style food. Chaia offers seasonal, plant-based tacos, sides and natural drinks in a stylish, casual setting. We are dedicated to:

good food--

seasonality--

local farms--

sustainability-

warmth--

Award Winning Coach/ Business Consultant

Women's Biz Coop

Have you ever noticed how #womentrepreneurs struggle?
@WomensBizCoop we believe that everyone deserves an abundant life, full of passion, purpose, and prosperity.
Don’t struggle alone.
Become a WBC complimentary member now and get access to a network to support you, resources to guide you, and programs to help you easily start and expand the love of your life, your organization.

CultivatePeople

CultivatePeople is disrupting HR and building awesome places to work!

We are a people (HR) advisory services firm that helps companies...

• Attract, retain, and engage employees
• Pay employees competitively
• Create less boring company cultures

Founder & Chief Inspiration Officer

Awesome Women Entrepreneurs

AWE welcomes women operating a business, either full or part time. We host intimate social gatherings for women entrepreneurs to share some laughs, network & support one another. Be a guest on AWE Radio. Reach the next level of success in small, six-month accountability groups. Join our community to hire, refer, collaborate & encourage one another: Connect, Inspire, Laugh & Grow with AWE!

Mercedes Diane Griffin Forbes

Founder/President

The Women's Leadership Circle

The Women's Leadership Circle is presented by the Mercedes Parra Foundation and DG Speaks.

This program promotes sisterhood and fosters leadership through educational and social interactions. Our aim is to empower women through an immersive exploration of self-awareness and transformative leadership.

President and CEO

Energy Farms International LLC

An advisory company with a developer mindset, EFI offers sophisticated, practical, and up to date advice on structuring and financing infrastructure, energy and environmental projects.

Kate Schmidgall

Bittersweet Creative

Bittersweet Creative is a small team providing a broad range of creative services to clients of varied sizes. Our scopes of work generally involve a combination of identity and branding, print design, web design and development, short-film production and social-media strategy. We also operate BittersweetMonthly.com under Bittersweet Foundation, our 501c3 storytelling effort.

Brianne Dornbush

Executive Director

District Bridges

District Bridges is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to enrich neighborhood vitality by bridging community engagement and economic development opportunities so individuals, businesses, and organizations can thrive together. We are a DC Main Streets Program funded by DSLBD.

Elevate Network

Our mission is to help women advance in the workplace, both for themselves and the greater good. We strive to change the culture of business from the inside out - by investing in women.

#ThrivingMindfully Podcast with Ananda Leeke

#ThrivingMindfully Podcast with Ananda Leeke inspires you to incorporate more mindful moments into your daily life.

Owner & Designer

Urban Web Renovations, LLC

Urban Web Renovations provides web design and marketing support for small businesses and bloggers at an affordable price. Services provided include Web Design & Redesign; Messaging; Social Media Support; and Training.

Kim Fredrich LLC

When you train your front line team in basic sales skills you not only give yourself a competitive advantage, you set your team up for continued personal and professional success.

I show businesses how to find the revenue and profit hidden in plain sight by teaching sales skills to all of their customer facing/client servicing employees. I call it 'sales for non-sales people'.

Founding Partner

Global Empowerment Solutions

Global Empowerment Solutions (GES) creates impact programming for entrepreneurs which results in individual business growth and exposure. Additionally, GES collaborates with governments and organizations to create entrepreneur eco-systems through programming, partnerships, and policy.

Women's Business Garden, LLC

The mission of Women's Business Garden is to catalyze women's entrepreneurship and sustainable business growth and success through powerful education, mentorship and community.

Kelli Kedis Ogborn

President & CEO

H.S. DRACONES LLC

At its core, H.S. Dracones helps individuals and companies understand where they fit within their ecosystem and better position themselves within that context. Heavily rooted in the human side of technology, our consulting firm specializes in innovation strategy and integration- helping the science-minded build businesses and translate their technology for maximum adoption and impact.

Managing Director

Census Open Innovation Labs

The Census Bureau serves as the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people and economy. We have been headquartered in Suitland, Maryland since 1942, and currently employ about 4,285 staff members. We are part of the U.S. Department of Commerce and overseen by the Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA).

ImageWorks Consulting Firm

ImageWorks is humanizing business!

Our training and development programs are dedicated to increasing the 'soft side' of business. What our training will do for your business:
1. Put a system in place that will increase better communication and generate a consistent level of service for your team
2. Create a team of dedicated team members who fully understand your company's mission and values

Denise Rolark Barnes

The Washington Informer

The Washington Informer Newspaper Co., Inc. an African American, woman-owned weekly newspaper and online website that reports on the African American community emphasizing positive news impacting community's locally, nationally and internationally.

Priscilla D'Sousza

Director of Pub Relations & Social Media

Entrepreneurs Organization

The Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) is a Global business network of 13,000+ leading entrepreneurs in 179 chapters and 57 countries. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, EO enables business owners to learn from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life.

Juliana Cardona Mejia

Street Entrepreneurs

Street Entrepreneurs (SE) is a community run 501(c)3 nonprofit that ignites the power of entrepreneurs by investing in their grit and talent through business education, mentorship and start-up grants.

Founder and CEO

Heartful.ly is an online wedding and events registry for charitable giving that empowers people to celebrate in a more meaningful way.

Founder and CEO

The Spectrum Circle

The Spectrum Circle is a platform, a community and a movement. A panel series of women innovators who connect and share professional and personal experiences through honest conversations to educate and inform about their life journey.

Women featured at The Spectrum Circle series are innovators, leaders, creative, drivers, makers and influencers in all aspects of business and industry

We help startups and small businesses solve their marketing problems with custom apps. A custom designed app can help your business ACQUIRE more customers, RETAIN existing customers, BUILD deeper relationships with customers, and keep customers ENGAGED. These customers will SHARE their experience leading to more customers via word of mouth marketing.

Women's Business Development Council

Women’s Business Development Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is dedicated to providing the tools and resources to help women thrive in business. We believe that when desire, education, and preparation come together, opportunities are created, ideas are ignited, and economies are expanded.

Cordelia Gaffar

Holistic Life Coach

Workout Around My Day Inc

Workout Around My Day is a seven step process to achieve sustainable weight loss and overall fulfillment.

Embrace the Ridiculousness of Life!

I empower female leaders to do their heart’s work. Tell me if this sounds familiar: You’re seen as successful by others BUT you're not satisfied and you’re finished with feeling uncertain. It's time to put your big "BUT" on the table. Together we'll figure out what is stopping you so that you can make an extraordinary shift.

Black Girl Vision

Black Girl Vision (BGV) is a social enterprise dedicated to finding creative solutions to dissolve the race & gender gap in access to capital. Our mission is to expose women of color to economic independence via empowerment & entrepreneurship. We host pitch competitions, training sessions & mentorship opportunities.

sarah@ewint.org

Empowered Women International

Empowered Women International unlocks the potential of women through the power of entrepreneurship. We empower women in the Greater DC Metro area facing economic and social challenges, including immigrants, refugees, and Americans with low income, to become economically mobile, financially stable and socially engaged.

Associate Director

Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Mar

The Dingman Center is one of the nation’s pre-eminent institutions where the research, education and practice of entrepreneurship are pursued vigorously. We develop and execute curricular and non-curricular programs that uniquely leverage Smith School thought leadership, experiential learning and our network of practitioners to provide maximum resources to our startup community.

Martina Sestakova

Owner, Textile Designer, Teaching Artist

I am a textile designer and teaching artist at RADOST (means JOY in Czech). Through painting and photography I tell stories in fabrics. Each textile (turned into scarves, tunics, bags, or pillows) has a name and comes with a short story of inspiration. My designs have been featured at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC. I also teach art classes (e.g., watercolor).

Co-founder & Creative Manager

Brown Girls Museum Blog

Brown Girls Museums Blog (BGMB) is an online platform and consulting agency, created with the objective to promote the visibility of people of color in museums, and to support emerging professionals in the humanities. BGMB encourages people of color to make space for themselves in the museum, and engage in critical dialogue toward greater diversity and cultural equity.

Founder and Owner

online community connecting fitness enthusiasts and fitness professionals

Elizabeth Beauchamp

Communications Specialist

DC Women's Business Center

The Washington, DC Women’s Business Center (DC WBC) is a business development organization that serves women entrepreneurs in the Washington, DC Capitol Region. The DC WBC provides training and consultation to assist in the growth of women-owned businesses. We also provide technical assistance to women-owned businesses interested in federal and local government procurement opportunities.

Angela Chester-Johnson

Plum Good LLC - DBA The Spice Is Right Club

We are an online culinary and wellness community featuring spices, herbs and teas that make Magic In Your Kitchen! We sell monthly spice subscriptions, complete with curated recipes for international cuisine, single a la carte spices and teas, as well as teas for wellness, relaxation and rejuvenation. We Know herbs, We talk teas, We speak spices. Join the club!

Managing Partner

Conscient Strategies

Conscient Strategies works with organizations to make change sustainable. We are committed to empowering organizations and innovative leaders to develop internal cultures that embrace change, that not only withstand disruption but thrive in it today, tomorrow and into the future.

Owner, Fairy Godsister

REFRESH Interiors

Is your home your haven and delight? Or is it time to gift yourself with a refresh? As your Fairy Godsister, I’ll blend the wisdom of Feng Shui with styling, space planning, and organizing expertise to create a sanctuary for you, those you love, and the life you lead ~ space for miracles to unfold. And I transform workplaces, too! Call 301.920.0678 for a free 15-minute introductory consultation.

Charlotte Vitak

My Story is a community building program that delivers a direct and tangible experience with empathy and diversity. Through the art of storytelling and story-listening, My Story breaks down silos and brings students, professors, and community members together to listen to each other's perspectives and experiences in a civil and engaging way so that each and every person feels valued and included.

Clout Workspace (Coworking +Office Space)

Located in Prince Georges CounClout Workspace strives to be an economic community model comprised of hands-on technical assistance, shared workspace, meeting rooms and a place to leverage and grow your network. The Clout Workspace community is a fun group of professionals that love to work collaboratively.

Co-Founder, Co-Director

ReCreative Spaces

ReCreative Spaces designs places for communities to gather + share their passion for art of all kinds.

Martina Coates-Nance

Founder and CEO

Your Clarity Coach LLC

I am Martina Coates-Nance, Founder and CEO of Your Clarity Coach LLC. Your Clarity Coach's mission is to serve women and men like who are seeking transformational CLARITY in their lives, careers and businesses.

Co-Founder and Co-CEO

Nappie is a local baked goods company that began in Washington DC. The founders of Nappie created the company because of their desire to bring wholesome, delicious desserts into the casual food scene. Comprised of only natural ingredients, we strive to give our community the most wholesome alternatives to American's favorite baked goods.

Vice President of Strategic Development

Global Entrepreneurship Network

The Global Entrepreneurship Network operates a platform of projects and programs in 170 countries aimed at making it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale a business.

By fostering deeper cross border collaboration and initiatives between entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policymakers and entrepreneurial support organizations, GEN works to fuel healthier start and scale ecosystems.

Managing Director, Global Marketing

1776 empowers startup ecosystems around the world to solve complex challenges. To accomplish this, we leverage our digital startup network, UNION; physical campuses in Washington, DC, New York City, San Francisco & Dubai; global pitch competition, Challenge Cup; and deep staff expertise in regulatory issues. We accelerate connections and outcomes among startups, corporations & public institutions.

In 1997, Vital Voices was created to make space for women to be heard. Our founders knew then what has now become a universal truth: that women are essential to progress in their communities. Our world cannot move forward without their full participation. Today, our organization is the product of the women we have worked with, their insights into leadership and our changing world.

Vice President of Social Innovation

Case Foundation

The Case Foundation, created by digital pioneers Jean and Steve Case, is a diverse and dynamic institution by design. We create programs and invest in people and organizations that embrace the Be Fearless principles and harness the best impulses of entrepreneurship, innovation, technology and collaboration to drive exponential impact.

P.E.R.K. Consulting

P.E.R.K. Consulting is an advisory firm that specializes in business development and capacity building support for nonprofits and small businesses. Our services include entity formation, strategic planning, staff and volunteer training and grant writing.

Technical.ly grows local technology communities by connecting organizations and people through news, events and services. We provide original editorial, expert programming and tools which improve recruitment, marketing, community cultivation and economic development. We serve technologists, entrepreneurs and people who care about technology’s local impact.

Twomentor helps companies build mentoring & sponsorship cultures with a passion for elevating women and millennials in the multi generational workforce

The people who mentor at your company are the people who drive retention at your company.

Samantha Attard

Happy Healthy Human

Helping ambitious adults eat, move, and live with intention through yoga events and retreats, one-on-one coaching, consulting, and our line of organic trail mixes.

Founder/ Visionary

One Step Closer Foundation, Inc.

One Step Closer Foundation, Inc. is a recognized 501c(3) organization that creates employment and educational opportunities that will enhance individuals towards higher education, financial deferment, professional development and become change agents in society. One Step Closer: Finding the Fun in Math is a subsidiary of the Foundation that is committed to helping individuals of ALL ages and level

Chief Training Officer

Training de Jour

Companies are comprised of people who, sooner or later, need new skills, understanding, and knowledge. Today’s training strategies are as varied as the people they seek to train.
Occasionally, your company will find that it has gaps in its training program, either in knowledge or bandwidth.
When that happens, you need a way to quickly fill the gap so that your people don’t lose momentum.

Dominic Bonaduce

General Manager-Alley

We promise to always strive to do better and work our asses off for YOU! We provide beautiful private offices and open workspaces, but it's more than that. Alley is home. Through Alley's programming and events, you'll be connected to like minded people and build meaningful relationships.

Principal and Founder

Mosaic Growth Partners, LLC

Mosaic Growth Partners is a consulting and coaching firm based in Washington, D.C. We help organizations and entrepreneurs in the healthcare and baby boomer industries with business growth strategy consulting. We also coach professional women to take control of their careers and build professional lives that are congruent with their personal aspirations and natural talents.

Tambra Stevenson

Founder and Consultant

NATIVSOL KITCHEN

From companies to consumers, NATIVSOL empowers people to transform their kitchens, heal their meals and enhance family traditions.

We are a team of marketing + branding strategists, creators and producers, and social doers working with others to grow communities. Through an integrated,multi-channel approach, we create and revitalize brands, draw new crowds and renew the love for what you have to share. Our work is focused in the music/entertainment, food and social good spaces.

M. Reese Everson

B.A.B.E.S in the Workplace

BABES in the Workplace is an organization dedicated to the support and empowerment of women in the workforce who've been mishandled, mislabeled, harassed, objectified, retaliated against, let go or cast aside. We believe in rebuilding, rebranding, and retooling women who have been sidetracked and derailed in their careers by sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

Founder, Executive Coach

Leaders for Good

We help leaders solve team problems to boost collaboration and innovation.

Kristina Francis

Chief Esteem Officer

EsteemLogic is a future-forward technology advisory and social enterprise that implements sustainable strategic solutions to ensure organizations optimize engagement with its people and the communities they serve. We are intentional about hiring, training, and growing more underrepresented faces in technology and entrepreneurship.

MOOR UNLIMITED LLC

MOOR UNLIMITED LLC is focused on uplifting marginalized groups through empowering people with evidence-based culturally relevant tools to live healthy informed lifestyles and impact positive change in their communities. We offer holistic wellness, nutrition, fitness, public health consulting, and tailored personal care product services that transform people to their best selves from the inside out

Social Designer/Chief Creative

The General Store Inc.

The General Store Inc. designs experiences that spark creativity and electrify community. The General Store Inc. has created, curated and collaborated on relative, progressive, fresh art, content and experiences. Whether it's production, curation, campaigns, workshops, or written work we foster innovation by utilizing the resources you already have at your disposal. We Make. Do.

Lead Stylist & CEO

Vintage & Charmed Classic Clothing

Own and operate a small vintage & designer clothing boutique in Historic Anacostia.

Cureate & Cureate Connect

Cureate Connect is an online platform that matches large businesses, name brands, and institutions with food and beverage entrepreneurs through new business opportunities in real estate, retail, wholesale, and events/catering. Follow Cureate @cureateco on Facebook and Instagram.

Beautycounter by Raquel Miranda

Former Public Health Advisor and scientist, world traveler expat mom of 3 third-culture children, turned into advocate for safer, healthier alternatives for her family, when it comes to beauty, personal care products. Beauty Consultant at Beautycounter, educating other women and moms alike about how to better respect our bodies, our families, from what we eat to what we put on/into our bodies.

Elizabeth Hubley

Member, Board of Directors

Circle Yoga is a warm, welcoming community of students and teachers who come together to practice yoga, mindfulness, Pilates, and other wellness modalities. The studio offers a range of classes to suit all ages and fitness levels. Students enjoy three light-filled yoga studios, along with a welcoming reception area, retail space to browse in, and a contemplative Zen garden outside.

Janet Bandows Koster

Executive Director & CEO

Association for Women in Science

AWIS is a global network that inspires bold leadership, research, and solutions that advance women in STEM, spark innovation, promote organizational success, and drive systemic change.

Katalina Mayorga

El Camino Travel

El Camino Travel is the answer for millennials craving fresh, immersive, and intentional travel. We curate off-beat experiences for small groups to unique destinations. Our trips come with a creative photographer in tow, so that our travelers can thoroughly enjoy their trip rather than be consumed in capturing it.

Founder and Chief Advisor

OTI Advisors LLC

OTI Advisors is a human resource advisory firm that helps Organizations, Teams and Individuals (OTI) reach their highest potential by designing customized training interventions that are based on scientific diagnosis and evidence.

Mercedes Diane Griffin Forbes

Founder/President

DG Speaks is an online media outlet, providing a variety of content focusing on lifestyle and culture. DG Speaks is a subsidiary of Diane Griffin Enterprises, a global marketing, and micro-enterprise development firm providing marketing services, value chain analysis, business management consultation, and capacity building training.

Evette Banfield

Vice President of Economic Development Policy and

Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development

CNHED is a dynamic, 501(c)3 member association that supports the nonprofit housing and economic development industry in Washington, DC. CNHED’s strength is in its convening power, highly successful advocacy, robust communications and information sharing, and equipping its members with tools and resources for their work.

Shreya Bhargava

Founder & Co-Director

District Mugs is a DC-based nonprofit that introduces entrepreneurship to homeless and low-income individuals by teaching them how to run a business of marketing, designing, and selling coffee mugs. The participants can get access to a small income by selling their coffee mugs while getting a sense of how to run a small business.

Investor| Strategist

Department of State: Global Entrepreneurship Program

As a part of the Office of Commercial and Business Affairs, the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) seeks to promote entrepreneurship and inspire innovation by coordinating private sector partners and government programs that support entrepreneurs around the world.

Managing Director

DM Consulting LLC

DM Consulting LLC provides various training services to entrepreneurs, small businesses, and individuals interested in learning strategic methods about how to obtain and win Federal and state/local Government contracts. Women business owners are underrepresented in this industry. We assist woman owned small businesses with the tools needed to locate and compete for Government contracts.

Roshawnna Novellus

Founder and CEO

While women can apply for various opportunities, the distribution of capital is far from equitable. Gender equality and women’s economic empowerment lie at the core of the EnrichHER vision. The EnrichHER platform would help ensure that women receive the same opportunities for funding as men.

Bold in Business

Confidence is not innate — it is a skill that women can learn and cultivate. At Bold in Business we teach women to stop pleasing others and start forging their own path.
You'll learn strategies for promoting your value at work and negotiating a pay salary that reflects it.
By the end of our six week online class, you'll develop a new toolset that will change the trajectory of your career.

Best Marketing LLC

Provides a full range of marketing strategy services and expertise for early and growth stage technology companies in the DC area. Since founding the company in 2001, Since inception, she has worked for more than 90 companies, assisting them increase revenue and speed market adoption for their B2B tech products and services.

The Vinetta Project DC

The Vinetta Project DC supports high growth female entrepreneurs as they take their tech businesses to scale. Since 2015, over 700 people have attended our DC events and over 150 female founders have applied to our annual $20K Pitch Competition.

District of Clothing

DISTRICT of CLOTHING was created to encourage positive messaging, local pride, and a ""can-do"" mentality. We triumphantly embrace the creative, entrepreneurial, and community doer spirit blossoming throughout our communities.

Tasnim Shahjahan

The FreshMobile

"Fresh" is a limeade concoction perfected by the genius of the operation, Kem. Taking a childhood recipe, our handcrafted drink is available in eight different flavors. It is the best limeade you will ever drink!

Executive Director

THE GEMZ, INC is a non-profit organization that serves as a mentoring and leadership program for middle and high school girls in the Washington DC metro area. We host monthly workshops, conferences and events that focuses but not limited to topics to develop a healthy self-esteem, leadership skills, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, emotional intelligence etc.

Founder/Creator

Making Awareness Reach Challenged Hearts & Homes is a new nonprofit cooperation working to obtain a 501 (c) (3). M.A.R.C.H.H. will deliver community-based awareness serving children and families in the DMV community with special needs, development delays and other complex care health needs.M.A.R.C.H.H. services will include; playgroups/trips/family activities, family referrals and more.

Brand Courage Coach

Brand & Business Coach

Maggy Sterner is a branding expert, business coach, writer, and speaker. She helps small businesses and nonprofits discover their core brand message, learn how to own it courageously, and find the words that describe it simply and clearly.

Maggy believes that's the foundation for the magic: your business is successful, you work with clients you love, and you get to live your superpower.

Founder / Coach

Tiffany Houser Lifestyle and Leadership Coaching

As a certified lifestyle and leadership coach, I partner with current and future executives, leaders and entrepreneurs who are ready to land their dream job, dream income or launch their dream business. I help you design the lifestyle you want while doing what you are meant to be doing every day! There are no Monday through Friday's or 9 to 5's when you love what you do.

Entrepreneurship Desk Officer

Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs

Every day, the Bureau of Economic & Business Affairs (EB) works to create jobs at home, boost economic opportunities overseas, and make America more secure. Under the leadership of Assistant Secretary Manisha Singh, we promote a strong American economy by ensuring a level-playing field for American companies doing business around the world &attracting; foreign investors to create jobs in America.

Natalie Cofield

Founder and CEO

Walker's Legacy

Inspired by Madam C.J. Walker, Walker's Legacy is a global collective missioned to engage, equip, and inspire women of color in business and entrepreneurship. Walker's Legacy does this with their engaging programs and signature events, original content and research for multicultural women in business, and through the non-profit arm, the Walker's Legacy Foundation.

Owner and Leadership Development Coach

Christa Davis Coaching

Christa Davis Coaching provides leadership development coaching and consulting to emerging women leaders who want to develop their leadership skills to achieve meaningful impact in their careers, and organizations that strive to create productive, positive, and engaged work cultures.

Erica Soultanian

Mission Collaborative LLC

Mission Collaborative is a DC-based organization that helps people design careers they love. We offer nights-and-weekends programs for professionals who want to make a career change but need help figuring out what comes next.

Samira Cook Gaines

Global Empowerment Solutions

Global Empowerment Solutions (GES) is a woman-owned firm established in 2015 by Samira Cook Gaines and Candice Miles, both of whom believe in the power of entrepreneurship to create a pathway out of poverty. With a combined 25 years in business development and women’s empowerment, GES is able to leverage that experience for clients who seek a holistic approach to community economic development.

Fundación Comparlante

Comparlante is an online platform which offers products and services adapted to the different needs that people with disabilities. In a collective construction, accessibility, entrepreneurship and social impact are the basis of this project and its proposals. From innovation, Comparlante is an open space for developing tools which help to do this world less disabled.

Managing Director

At MindFarm, we connect the best, most experienced independent consultants in their fields with the non-profit organizations that need them, quickly and cost effectively. MindFarm sources senior talent capable of making an immediate impact on businesses by engaging consultants for interim executive positions, project-based assignments, and professional part-time engagements.

Owner and Creative Director

Skye Media Group

We help vision-based businesses, bloggers, organizations, and solopreneurs uncover the potential in their businesses through business strategy, web design, branding and tough love.

MsPrint USA is a woman-owned custom apparel & merchandise printing shop with a educational component dedicated to empowering women entrepreneurs. We offer screen printing, vinyl printing and promotional products. (including hats, mugs, wristbands, table cloths, banners, etc.). We also offer courses on starting your own t-shirt line, screen printing and vinyl printing.

President / Founder

Canady Foundation for the Arts

The Canady Foundation for the Arts (CFA) is a Washington, DC cultural arts 501(c) 3
non-profit organization that educates, empowers and implements innovative arts and media
programs for young people of color. CFA's mission is to bring arts programming, education,
performance, leadership, outreach and entrepreneurship opportunities to young people of color nationally

Prachi Vakharia

WOMANIUM Foundation

WOMANIUM is one of the most unique Science+Entrepreneurship organisations in USA that has worked with NASA, ARPA-E, NIH, Industries, etc. for women’s advancement in STEM+Entrepreneurship in domains ranging from Energy, Space, Astronomy, Computational Neuroscience, Industrial Additive Manufacturing (3-D Printing), Automation, Transportation to Nuclear Weapons.

Christina Martinez-Williams

Syngenuity Circles

Differences DEFINE us. Photos CONNECT us. Sharing UNITES us.

Experience the peace, love, and unity that happens when women come together in circles across divides and share stories. Join (or host) a bi-monthly in-person or online Syngenuity Circle happening across the country and feel the power of women's unity!

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

BrandLinkDC is a full-service strategic communications agency that builds better brands. Specializing in the luxury marketplace–specifically, the fashion & beauty, hospitality, home & design and real estate sectors–our company produces ROI-focused press campaigns, targeted influencer initiatives and events ranging from VIP gatherings to large-scale launches.

My Style Authority

My Style Authority (MSA) is a mobile-friendly beauty and fashion matching website featuring quality professionals in the hair, makeup, fashion, spa and specialty cosmetic industries. Professionals are able to enhance their online branding presence; while matched users get their style needs met. MSA is a one stop shop style community and content portal for all things beauty and fashion!

Bariatric Center for Success

Bariatric Center for Success gives bariatric surgery patients the tools to achieve long-term weight-loss success and pursue a life of wellness, health, joy and self-fulfillment, before and after surgery.

Bariatric Center for Success will help you make the connection between weight-loss surgery and long term success!

Founder & President

Solutions Marketing Group

We are committed to helping our clients understand the many dimensions of the disability market, so they see beyond the disability to the individual who wants the same things they want – the opportunity to engage life fully by accessing the goods, services,& career opportunities they need.

Julia Craighill

Ensight Consulting

We help companies that want to launch and grow green programs or need a plan to ensure that they will withstand changes in the future. For the past three years, we have been the consultant to the Montgomery County Green Business Certification program, helping corporations and small businesses realize their sustainability goals.

We also offer tailored solutions for the Building industry.

Founder and CEO

The Mentor Method

The Mentor Method is a career development platform empowering minorities, women, and underrepresented tech talent to learn to lead with confidence by connecting rising stars to career mentors from companies interested in hiring diversely.

N. Jones Enterprise LLC & En Prose

N. Jones Enterprise is a book publishing consulting company.

Joanne Sonenshine

Connective Impact

Connective Impact aids in collaborative goal development, partnership strategy, coalition building and fundraising in order to solve complex problems. This includes developing strategies for broad stakeholder engagement, prioritizing action around individual and joint commitments, determining what is achievable alone and with the right partners and measuring impact.

Associate Vice President

Innovation and Entreprenurship at George Washington U

The George Washington University (GW) Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship is housed under the Office of the Vice President for Research. The office provides programming around innovation, education, venture creation, and making connections to support GW entrepreneurs and the Mid-Atlantic startup community.

Marketing Habit

Marketing Habit offers strategic marketing services to B2B, high tech companies, with innovative programs for corporate marketing, product marketing, and ecosystem program development and management. We deliver high level marketing vision paired with tactical execution for real, measurable client results. Learn more at www.marketing-habit.com

Lead Event Planner + Creative Director

Favored by Yodit Events & Design

Favored by Yodit Events & Design specializes in providing clients with event design, planning and coordination services to ensure that your vision comes to life exactly as it's been envisioned in your mind's eye. We have organized events of all types and sizes, ranging from lavish weddings and fundraising galas with guest counts of over 600 guests to intimate social gatherings of 20 or less.

Owner, Health Coach

Upswing Health Coaching

Upswing Health Coaching provides support, accountability and a proven system to help busy professionals prioritize their self-care while chasing a career, growing a family or pursuing passions and hobbies. By creating healthy habits that are fun and sustainable, Upswing will help you focus on what you get to have, rather than what you have to give up in order to live big and feel great.

Free, beginner-friendly coding classes for over 2500 women in DC

JOAHNA HERNANDEZ

We are a food business dedicated to bring the tradition of maize and Mexican street food to the DMV. We source heritage corn from Mexico to make maizopes, a thick corn tortilla layered up with original toppings. We connect communities of small farmers through our food which is inspired in traditional Mexican recipes.

Tanzen provides training for people who communicate online. We give people skills to create content with purpose and processes that enhance collaboration. Our clients are ready to do things differently to do great things for the greater good.

Kimberley Jutze

Founder and Chief Change Architect

Shifting Patterns Consulting

Shifting Patterns is a Certified B Corporation that helps intra- and inter-organizational teams solve problems that get in the way of increased revenue, productivity, and healthy workplaces. We specialize in working with nonprofits, social enterprises, and socially responsible businesses that are dedicated to civic engagement and the transition to a local sustainable economy.

Accelerator Manager

Union Kitchen is a food and beverage business accelerator based in Washington, D.C. We partner with exceptional brands to launch locally, grow regionally, and scale nationally. Our program guides entrepreneurs through concept to launch, launch to local saturation, and multi-regional expansion with a tailored curriculum, networks, and strong local ecosystem.

Claudia Russell

Ms Engineered Wealth LLC

Financial literacy education and coaching for communities of color. Ms. Engineered Wealth provides financial education around budgeting, spending habits, goal setting, money mindset and investing. We help communities of color increase their financial IQ, close the racial wealth gap and build financially stable lives.

Ariel Pasternak

a community for women in food that seeks to connect the good food movement with the foodie movement to create a better food system

Executive Director

THE GENX is for women specifically between the ages of 35 and 50 to provide a platform to provide resources and host events to network, train and inspire aspiring and established female entrepreneurs.

The Oven: A Women's Vision Incubator

“She believed she could so she did” encompasses our mission. The mission of the Oven is to inspire, equip, and empower women to bravely pursue their vision. In our intimate “living room” space opportunities we create the intersection of mentorship and coaching to clarify and support women's hopes and dreams.

Restaurant Owner/Attorney

Mellow Mushroom

Mellow Mushroom in Adams Morgan is a 3-level restaurant filled with original art and murals, a full-service bar on each level, 24 beers on tap, and a roof top patio overlooking 18th Street.

The Second Floor and Roof Top are available for private events, fundraisers, happy hours or community-focused events.

PeaceTech Lab works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts.

An independent nonprofit organization, the Lab brings together engineers and activists, MBAs and conflict experts, social scientists, data scientists, and other innovators to develop effective peacebuilding solutions.

Director, Be Green Hub

Bethesda Green's Be Green Hub

Be Green Hub identifies and nurtures green, social impact for-profit start-ups. We look for businesses aligned with our vision for a sustainable, impactful, and purposeful economy to join our 12 month curriculum, which begins with a 6 month accelerator program.

The deadline for applications for the 2019 Cohort is November 15, 2018.

President and CEO

US Black Chambers

The U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC) provides committed, visionary leadership and advocacy in the realization of economic empowerment. Through the creation of resources and initiatives, we support African American Chambers of Commerce and business organizations in their work of developing and growing Black enterprises.

CyberTurf Strategic Media & Assoc.

Your website has an online presence: people find it in search results, or not, depending on its content. As SEO (search engine optimization) professionals we can describe the extent of your online presence and help you improve it, affordably. No gimmicks, no “magic,” but plenty of data, strategy, and insight for your success online.

Brand Strategist & Startup Facilitator

SK Consulting is a strategy-driven boutique branding and startup accelerator firm specializing in women-led brands. Our expertise includes brand development/ strategy, creative direction, social media & digital marketing strategy. With over 9 years of experience in branding and product development in the fashion industry, the Founder Shawna Kaye, helps women Mold, Manage, & Monetize their Brand!

BigSpool is an e-commerce company creating consumer products with rapid production tools to fulfill niche market demands. We're creating goods people want, but cannot find.

#ThrivingMindfully Video Series with Ananda Leeke

Need more mindful, inspiring, and creative moments in your life? Looking for tips on how to use social media and technology mindfully? You've come to the right place. #ThrivingMindfully Video Series with Ananda Leeke is your new mindfulness BFF. Watch seven second videos and be inspired.

Awesome Women Entrepreneurs

Awesome Women Entrepreneurs is open to women operating a business, either full or part time. This organization is for women entrepreneurs to network, collaborate and support one another through small group gatherings in members' homes or local businesses.

We create an intimate, social setting where busy women business owners can share their stories, have some laughs and inspire one another.

Founder/Executive Director

National Certification Services

www.cprtrainingfast.com is the nation's first provider of web-based ACLS certification and ACLS recertification. Our 100% online ACLS exams include free ACLS prep materials and algorithms, unlimited retakes and instant certificates. We also offer PALS certification and PALS recertification, in addition to BLS.

Owner/Chief Curator

Nubian Hueman features cultural goods reflecting the African Diaspora and Black culture. Designers bring ethnic influences to modern silhouettes and product lines by using traditional patterns or ingredients. The boutique serves as a means to promote collective interaction, community development, and global responsibility through a fresh and artistic platform.

Marketing Coordinator

No one likes to work, but everyone likes to be productive. cove provides a place in your neighborhood to get things done, alongside others doing just the same. If you ever find yourself trying to work out of the lonely living room, noisy coffee shop, or boring office, cove is for you. We offer flexible plans that are designed around the way you get things done.

Alia Khayrullina

STARTING FROM THE BOTTOM. AKO is the on-the-ground grassroots marketing + branding agency. We aim to plant your roots within your respective community and grow your brand. Geared toward promoting positive brand experience through an integrated strategy, our roots team collaborates with culturally in-the-know, talented, creative professionals to deliver on all tiers of brand experience for clients.

Rosemarie Truman

Founder and CEO

The Center for Advancing Innovation Accelerator

The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) is a global public-private partnership, non-profit focused on creating a virtuous circle of innovation and driving growth breakthroughs through novel, creative paradigms and models. CAI's mission is to accelerate and increase the volume of research commercialization in support of high growth business to ignite entrepreneurship, bolster the global economy,

Founder & Chief Wellness Officer

Life...by Design!℠ Coaching & Wellness Services

Offers holistic life and transition coaching programs;speaking;and wellness services for individual women,organizational/community leaders,emerging leaders,leadership development/training programs,and entrepreneurs;as well as for the groups,organizations and/or associations,domestically and internationally,committed to supporting and advancing women's personal and professional development.

Behold.Her was created in 2016 with the belief that we’re all human, and we all have a story to tell. A photographic happy hour for women, Behold.Her creates space for deep conversations and an intimate portrait experience. These gatherings are built to foster a foundation for self- love, communal support, and storytelling.

Jennifer Mellon

Founder & President

Trustify is the first technology platform to connect individuals and businesses to the only nationwide network of licensed, highly-vetted, affordable private investigators.

MET Community is a 501c3 non-profit organization that promotes and supports sustainable, responsible, and innovative entrepreneurship among women through training, mentorship, and networking activities.

Hera Hub is a female-focused coworking space – a shared, flexible work and meeting space where entrepreneurial women can create and collaborate in a professional, productive, spa-like environment.

President/Owner

Double R Productions

Double R Productions is a full service communications firm in Washington, DC, specializing in film, television, and all manner of media/web production. Since 1987, Double R projects have included public service announcements, original programming, corporate, non-profit and association image pieces, along with video news releases and commercials. Double R also works with government agencies.

kathleen sindell, Ph.D.

kathleensindell.com

End-to-End On-Demand Book Publishing Services

Books from dissertations, drafts, blogs, speeches, presentations, articles, notes, and ideas.
Become the published author you always wanted to be.
- Content and development editor
- Production co-ordination and support
- Book marketing plans and execution

Founder/ Lead Strategist

THE ASH PROJECT

The Ash Project- is a premier creative management agency based in DC. We connect the dots and create the vibes for our clients. Our services include Brand Management, Business Management, Talent Management and influencer marketing strategies in the industries of MUSIC, FILM,TV,SPORTS and Corporate Organizations.

Erin Horne McKinney

Co-founder & CEO

KissIntel is the first mobile application to function as a "CRM for dating" by creating a platform where users can aggregate, track their dates, compare and rate dates, get instant feedback from their family and friends in real time, and manage their dating interactions with virtual touches.

sarah@ewint.org

Empowered Women International

Empowered Women International unlocks the potential of women through the power of entrepreneurship. We empower women in the Greater DC Metro area facing economic and social challenges, including immigrants, refugees, and Americans with low income, to become economically mobile, financially stable and socially engaged.

Ashley Scarboro

Founder/Publisher

Modern Stitches Magazine

Modern Stitches is a street wear vintage fashion digital magazine that has several hundred unique visitors per month. It is our goal to inspire the latest vintage/thrift trends through engaging journalism with no geographical limitations. We aim to give vintage a media platform all while proving its longevity. Retail fashion will never be the same...

Cofounder & Managing Partner

As board members, we bring our energy, experience and contacts to help turn ideas and early traction into scalable, high-growth businesses. Our entrepreneurs and the individuals on their teams posses the extraordinary intelligence, passion, vision and drive needed to succeed.

Co-Founder & CEO

SEED SPOT educates, accelerates and invests in entrepreneurs of all ages and backgrounds committed to solving social problems. A 501c3 nonprofit, SEED SPOT supports entrepreneurs by surrounding them with the access to resources, mentors, business fundamentals, capital sources, and community partners they need to succeed. 49% of SEED SPOT alumni are women and 45% are minority.

Managing Partner

Design & strategy firm focused on startups, VCs, and accelerators. We help startups navigate the fundraising process with deck strategy & design.

Other design service packages include websites, logos, UI/UX, and marketing materials for startups & small businesses to jump start the customer acquisition process.

Founder and CEO

Inherview Consulting

In business remain adamant about your goals and mission but open-minded about the roads you take to get there. Inherview Consulting transforms non-profits and small businesses by taking your business from where it is today to where you want to be tomorrow through business process re-engineering, strategic partnership facilitation, talent and performance management. Disrupt...Transform...Sustain!

Avant Garde Digital Media

Avant Garde Digital Media is an award-winning boutique digital media firm. We provide strategic and innovative digital media support for brands in all industries, with a particular emphasis on art, culture, politics, food and fashion. Our cutting-edge digital outreach strategies set trends, inspire movements, increase sales and strengthen your brand's online presence.

A Mindful Cup of Tea Facebook Group

A Mindful Cup of Tea Facebook group provides weekly inspiration, tools, and discussion that will help you create more mindful moments in your life.

Avalaura Gaither

Intuitive Conusltant/ Life Coach/ Speake

Avalaura's Healing Center

Embrace all that you are, in service to the world and to your highest and most incredible life -- the journey waits for no one, it begins now.
If now is the time for you to live a freedom-focused life, detox yourself of limiting beliefs that no longer serve you, and create an unrecognizable reality — then Avalaura is the guide you’ve been waiting for.

Co-founder & CEO

JRINK is DC's first & largest digitally native, vertically integrated, cold-pressed juice company.

Helen Levy-Myers

Athena's Workshop

We solve chronic absenteeism through better and more timely parent-school-teacher communication and by leveraging the power of parents. Research shows that weekly text messages can dramatically improve student attendance. Many states fund their public K-12 schools using attendance of the enrolled student - meaning improving school attendance shows a positive ROI within one funding cycle.

Founder & Master Brand Storyteller

PunkyFlair is a brand story shop that helps young businesses clarify their messaging, increase their revenue, and create stronger connections with the customers who matter. Group coaching and a 1-on-1 story marketing approach equips you with the tools you need to build a brand that will last forever.

Susanna Barasch

M Institute for the Arts

We are a arts organization in Georgetown providing resources and programs such a music school, practice rooms, and events.

Sepia Works, LLC

Sepia Works is a multi-media production company and arts consulting agency that imagines new content, innovates creative strategies and inspires the minds of future generations.

Business Coaching

A multi-disciplinary business, marketing & design consultancy. We perform user research, strategy and design to develop a 360 experience for clients products and services. Services include design and re-design of a new business, brand and concept development; facilitating creative thinking for exploration; and experiential marketing strategies.

Executive Director

Minority Business Development Assocation

MBDA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce that promotes the growth of minority-owned business through the mobilization and advancement of public & private sector programs, policy, and research. We work throughout the Nation to link minority-owned businesses with the capital, contracts, & markets they need to grow.

EngageHRnow's vision statement is 'Get Them to Great!'. At EngageHRnow we partner with small and mid-size businesses to build their human capital infrastructure; while successfully shaping a winning culture that propels our clients on a path to becoming an employer of choice!

Principal, Health coach

One Girl Wellness

One Girl Wellness provides health coaching to women looking to get on loving speaking terms with their bodies, hearts and minds.

Director of Strategy

We're a mission-based creative agency & our mission is to empower women to lead. Our services include: branding, web design, strategy, content creation, photo & video production.

Kirstie Chadwick

President and CEO

InBIA is a global nonprofit organization that has welcomed and supported entrepreneurial organizations for over 30 years. Serving a diverse group of entrepreneurship centers, program managers, directors, and policymakers, we help guide, mentor, and develop sustainable entrepreneur support programs in every industry and demographic around the globe.

The moment you walk in, you'll notice that we do things a little bit differently from other yoga studios.

Angelique Michelle

Its a Personal Styling, Shopping and Closet Organization company, which has a phone application that allows the user to have a Virtual Wardrobe and Fashion Stylist. Download available on iPhone and Android.

Sophia Hyder Hock

Papilia is a boutique cultural learning and development firm. We thrive on empowering people to reach their full potential through diversity and inclusion training, cross cultural communication, mindful leadership, and workplace wellness initiatives.

Director of Partnerships

Village Capital

Village Capital finds, trains, and invests in entrepreneurs solving real-world problems. We build communities around entrepreneurs and their ventures to improve opportunities for growth and success.

Biko Aiko Oluwa

Operations Manager

Nomad Yard is a one-stop shop for everything an existing or launching vintage business needs.

Nexus 8 International, LLC

Nexus 8 International, LLC, located in Washington, DC, is a tech firm focused on developing Hippra, a mobile application and web-based platform that enables high-quality collaboration among healthcare providers. Our aim is to help physicians connect with other medical experts when challenging or difficult to diagnose cases arise so that positive healthcare outcomes can be maximized.

Chief of Storytelling Marketing

Radiant Media Labs, LLC

Radiant Media Labs helps you craft your business story and copy so you can sparkle in the Sea of Blahness and create cravings for your services. We work with service-based business providers and do-gooder organizations.

Owner & Designer

Urban Web Renovations, LLC

Urban Web Renovations provides web design and marketing support for small businesses and bloggers at an affordable price. Services provided include Web Design & Redesign; Messaging; Social Media Support; and Training.

Humble Ventures

humble aligns startups, innovative organizations, and investors who share the collective human, financial, and technical resources to accelerate improving lives & economic impact

Sherry San Miguel

Soul & ink, Co-Founder

Soul & Ink, LLC

Soul & Ink's participatory live screen printing experiences reshape traditional relationships between art and audiences. We provide a fun, interactive art experience at events and can activate any space with our mobile screen printing unit. Our dream is to create artwork that can be shared with anyone, anywhere. Through modern aesthetic and vintage technique, we merge Soul & Ink.

WOE (Women Own Excellence ) Magazin

WOE( Women Own Excellence) is the go-to guide designed to create a culture and lifestyle of excellence for women. Our focus is inspiration, style, self-empowerment and all around empowerment.

We are committed to delivering insightful and thought-provoking articles about women sharing failures, celebrating successes, and embracing moments of growth across the globe.

Director of Community & Partnerships

Springboard Enterprises

Springboard is a highly-vetted expert network of innovators, investors and influencers who are dedicated to building high-growth technology-oriented companies led by women.

Our programs and initiatives are how we source, qualify, advise, showcase and support the most promising businesses seeking capital or partnerships for product development and expansion. ‎

India Gary-Martin

Founder and Lead Transformation Coach

Leadership For Life

Leadership For Life is a transformational executive coaching practice that focuses on helping women and ethnic minorities make step level career change. Led by international speaker and business coach, India Martin we offer both cohort and individual coaching sessions.

Founder & Director

"She So Crazy" is a new trans-media project, incorporating digital series, podcast, photography, & blogs, to focus on the womxn experience in various toxic cultures. "She So Crazy" provides resources & advocacy, connects them to create new business & networking opportunities, & inspires the next generation of female entrepreneurs. "She So Crazy" is more than a project: it is a collective movement.

FEC Enterprises, LLC

FEC Enterprises, LLC, is a multifaceted executive coaching, diversity training and leadership development company that helps owners/executives of small-to-mid-size businesses and non-profit organizations achieve the success they seek through intuitive problem solving and focused action planning.

Shermica Farquhar

Soka Tribe is a cultural exploration brand specializing in dance fitness, that brings the spirit of Caribbean carnival to you! Soka Tribe is an experience, immersing members and attendees in Caribbean culture and the global carnival community through a variety of ways: our workout class, performances, organized trips, and and social events.

Janet Makepeace

Founder / Leadership Coach

JAR Leadership Coaching

JAR Leadership Coaching is a results oriented organization working with individuals and teams to improve effectiveness in the workplace. We specialize in executive coaching, individual and team assessment and customized development for the sake of positively impacting results.

Morgan Hungerford West

Founder, Artist + Creative Resource

A Creative DC uses new media to promote Washington, DC's creative economy, sharing diverse perspective and elevating the underrepresented voices of the DC creative community to a social media audience of over 75,000. The project democratizes visibility among the emerging + established, and creates accessibility to the DC creative community on both a local and global scale.

Founder and CEO

Her Corner was founded in 2011 to build peer groups of female entrepreneurs eager to grow their businesses. Members enjoy professionally facilitated sessions during which they connect, collaborate, and drive business growth for themselves - and each other.

THE PRIVACY ADVOCATE

THE PRIVACY ADVOCATE is a global privacy, information security and cyber security consulting firm. We educate and work with small, medium, and large commercial, government, and non-profit entities to help promote best privacy practices while reducing legal liabilities, regulatory compliance risks, sanctions, financial impact on victims of data breaches, reputational risks, and loss of revenue.

Executive Director

Mentor Captial Network

The Mentor Capital Network offers 1) mentoring relationships where entrepreneurs and mentors choose each other, 2) support that doesn’t take you away from running your company, 3) detailed and constructive feedback from a dozen different points of view, 4) a network of founders and peers solving similar problems, and 5) cash and in-kind prizes for our top companies.

Young African Professionals Network (YAP)

The Young African Professionals (YAP DC) Network is the premier conveners of events and opportunities for young African diaspora professionals ages 21-40. We provide timely and relevant resources, we facilitate innovative professional development experiences, we foster inspirational networking, and we encourage impactful community building.

Capitol Romance LLC

Capitol Romance is the Washington DC area's best resource for loving & living practically and locally. With a focus on wedding planning, inspiration, and resources, Capitol Romance is a blog, a community, a wedding coordination business, and a recently launched eCommerce site.

JEMH Enterprises

Digital Platform Integration, Interactive Development/Productions, Media Management & Technology, Digital Publishing, Digital Broadcasting: Cable, Film, Radio, Web & Mobile, and Digital Media Preservation

I design clothing, organize snowboard/surf camps/skateboarding events for women (to empower women through action sports), support women artists/enterpreneurs/activists/advocates, and recently launched my first flag ship store in Adams Morgan DC called sPACYcLOUd Lounge.

Naomi Rasmussen

Coworking.
Playspace.
Flexible child care.
Fitness and wellness classes.

Workafrolic is a unique space in Washington DC that fosters productivity, creativity, and community for parents and kids alike.

Workafrolic is built with working parents in mind, bringing the flexibility of traditional coworking spaces to child care and self-care, making it all a little easier – and more enjoyable!

Founding Partner

New Dominion Angels

New Dominion Angels was formed with the intention to make group angel investing accessible, fun and intellectually stimulating. We strive to offer a friendly, collegial environment and at our core believe that investing as a collaborative group fundamentally improves the likelihood of making better investment decisions.

Chief Executive Officer

The Career Strategy Group

The Career Strategy Group is a Washington DC-based career management and outplacement firm that delivers expert coaching, personalized support, full-service award-winning resume writing and branding solutions, and cutting-edge DIY tools to increase job search effectiveness following a layoff.

Microfinance Loan Officer

Latino Economic Development Center

LEDC provides loans of up to $50,000 to entrepreneurs in the DMV area. LEDC has provided millions of dollars to small business that are owned by underrepresented communities including women, minorities, immigrants and financially disadvantaged groups. Our team also provides free consultations to entrepreneurs, connecting them with resources they need.

Executive Director

Capitol Hill's Chamber of Commerce

As a local Chamber of Commerce, the Capitol Hill Association of Merchants and Professionals (CHAMPS) is a dynamic organization of Washington, D.C. business and community leaders dedicated to a strong economic environment for the Capitol Hill neighborhood. CHAMPS advocates, connects, and promotes Capitol Hill businesses.

Lead Principle Investigator & Instructor

DC I-Corps is a regional program designed to foster, grow and nurture an innovation ecosystem in the nation’s capital, the nearby states of MD& VA , & the mid-Atlantic region.The program provides real world, hands-on training on how to successfully incorporate innovations into successful products. The ultimate goal is to create a new venture or licensing opportunity for program participants.

StrategicStraits, Inc.

StrategicStraits, Inc. helps explore international markets to grow your business and succeed with effective leadership and management skills.

Through its food incubator and restaurant accelerator, EatsPlace services include venture capital, business loans,entrepreneurial coaching.and technical assistance. We offer consulting, capital and operational resources to early and middle stage brands and founders. We help our clients produce tasty local foods, launch new products, and design food systems that work for our community.

Advancement Strategist

Halcyon is a creativity incubator for both social entrepreneurs and socially-conscious artists. Halcyon Incubator, our flagship program, is a competitive, 13-month fellowship program, which includes a 5-month residency, to support the most promising early-stage social entrepreneurs in the world. Incubator accepts 2 cohorts of 8 social enterprises each year and has worked more than 60 ventures.

National Women's Business Council

National Women's Business Council

Grow Her Business

Grow Her Business is a searchable repository of nearly 200 premiere, growth-oriented programs. This platform will serve as a resource of valuable information and guidance for women entrepreneurs seeking to grow and scale their businesses. The platform will be an easy-to-use platform functioning as a data repository for relevant tactical resources on how to ideate, launch, and grow a business.

Candice Nicole Public Relations

A boutique PR company that was established in 2007. CNPR works with lifestyle & small businesses, as well as handling PR for events and product launches.

Distinctly Creative

Distinctly Creative is an art collective + company whose mission is to give a diverse, holistic, and collaborative representation of the DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) creative scene -- and beyond, through a wide array of social and professional development opportunities.

One of the major focuses is to support and advocate for black creatives because representation matters.

Alexandra Suchman

Owner and Problem Solver

AIS Collaborations

I help people who do good work be able to work even better. I work with small businesses and small non-profits to overcome the day to day operating challenges that can eat up way too much time, money, and energy and interfere with focus on the mission. I help identify very simple, customized solutions that specifically address the challenged faces by leadership and their teams.

Ananda Leeke Consulting

Ananda Leeke Consulting (ALC) helps people and organizations outsmart stress and thrive+work mindfully. Through the practice of mindful living, creativity, and technology, ALC teaches them how to calm their minds,become aware of their emotions and behavior, create flexibility in their bodies, focus their concentration, express their creativity, and use social media and technology wisely.

Kimberly Bassett

Executive Director

Mayors Office on Womens Policy and Inititives

The Office on Women’s Policy and Initiatives (OWPI) is committed to enhancing the quality of life for all women and their families within the District of Columbia. OWPI, working in conjunction with the DC Commission for Women, is in a unique position to serve as a liaison between the public and private sectors and the Executive Office of the Mayor.

Stephanie Echeveste

cocktails+craft

cocktails+craft is a creative workshop focused on community, creativity and culture. We help individuals work out their creative muscles and connect to local DC talent.

Integrative Nutrition Health Coach

Live Well is a health coaching business that offers services to companies and organizations that promote the well-being of their employees; and works with women who want to heal their relationship with food. Live Well services are available in English and Spanish.

Diamond Shelton-Barbour

Key2impressions Image & Brand Styling

We are a image and brand styling company, Key2impressions features vintage styles to the latest trends. We offer style consulting and personal shopping services to fit your persona and apparel based inclinations. Key2impressions specializes in Brand and Image Styling, Personal Shopping Services, Photo Shoot, Commercials and Video Shoot Styling, Workshops, Nail, Mink Lash and Accessorizing Services

We want to see your company thrive, we are passionate about building mentoring and sponsorship cultures and elevating women STEM, building a more diverse workforce. We believe that through mentoring and sponsorship initiatives we can drive employee engagement and retention at your company.

Shanelle Roberson

Untapped is a collective & social movement with the mission to increase economic power and build a culture of humanity through increased education and exposure to globally diverse experiences that unveil and dismantle the system of oppression. Through the Catalyst Collective we bridge the gap between resources & action on the journey to economic freedom.

Grants on a Mission, LLC.

Grants on a Mission helps nonprofits design sustainable fundraising strategies to power their nonprofits. We offer customized fundraising consulting, prospect research, and grant proposal writing services to nonprofits. Let's get the grants!

President and Founder

We make technology simple! TechMoxie provides patient, step-by-step coaching and support on all things tech. We specialize in working with the tech-adverse to take the frustration out of the equation. Need to learn to Tweet? Looking to up your Excel skills? Not sure how to use your new website? Need to master Google Drive or get more proficient with a smartphone? We are your people!

Danielle Kristine Toussaint

She Thinks Purple

She Thinks Purple helps mission-driven women and organizations leverage storytelling and strategic communications to create radical change in the world.

erettig@smallbusinessmajority.org

Small Business Majority

Small Business Majority is a national small business advocacy organization, founded and run by small business owners to ensure America's entrepreneurs are a key part of an inclusive, equitable & diverse economy. We actively engage small business owners and policymakers in support of public policy solutions, and deliver information and resources to entrepreneurs that promote small business growth.

Hellen Fissihaie

Washington, D.C. based strategy and capacity building firm servicing the U.S., Africa, Caribbean, and Gulf Region of the Middle East Markets.

We help clients resolve complex business and community challenges, structure innovative programs, build and align partnerships, and create new market opportunities through
innovative Solutions & Strategies.

Strategy | Advisory | Capacity Building

Vinetta Project

Vinetta is a capital platform designed to unleash female drive. We source top tier female founders building high growth tech companies and work to catalyze their business growth.

Chief Executive Officer

The Hilltop Microfinance Initiative

HMFI is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to economic empowerment in the DC area. We are determined to decrease the wealth gap through offering Small Business Loans to those excluded from traditional financial institutions and to increasing financial literacy through Group Financial Coaching.

COURTNEY EDWARDS

Modish Moms™ is a DC based 501c3 nonprofit organization (Tax ID: 82-1391313) created for millennial mothers in pursuit of a better lifestyle, career and parenting opportunities. We provide information, support and resources for mothers balancing the many trials and triumphs of motherhood. Our goal is to create a community of mothers that supports and empowers one another in all walks of life.

Global Perspectives Coaching

I work with leaders and change agents to discover their true purpose and transform the world.

Sweetdele's Sweet Treats, LLC

We are a small batch bakery located in Union Kitchen. We specialized in homemade mouth watering pound cakes, cupcakes and cookies. You can found us at West End Farmers market on Sundays, Pop Ups at Williams and Somona and various of events within in the DMV.

Brand/Marketing Consultants
We fuse storytelling, research, and innovation to help define compelling brand strategies for you and powerful brand experiences for your audiences. Whether you’re starting a new business or you've been around a while, our one-on-one workshops are tailored to tackle the opportunities that can transform your vision into a reality.

Startup Law 101

Startup Law 101, held August 23, 2017, was a free workshop for women entrepreneurs. Produced by BEACON: The DC Women Founders Initiative, ChIPs: Women in IP Network, and Google, the workshop featured women attorneys and business professionals who shared insight on intellectual property law and other legal issues relevant for startup entrepreneurs.

Click the link below to access presentations.

DC Girls in Tech

Girls in Tech (GIT) is a global non-profit focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of girls and women who are passionate about technology. Adriana Gascoigne founded GIT in 2007 to create a support framework to help women advance their careers in STEM fields.

Today, GIT aims to accelerate the growth of innovative women entering into the high-tech industry and building startups.

Sarah Pete Rizzi

Sincerely Pete Events

We believe a beautiful & meaningful wedding is the best way to begin life as a married couple. Our wedding planning & design services ensure our couples' important day is built on a foundation of what a couple values most & is a true reflection of their relationship. Specializing in equality-minded events for LGBTQ, interfaith, interracial, forward-thinking & modern couples.

Cofounder and CEO

DICE Leadership Group

What started as a yearning ー a plea ー for more thoughtful conversation on diversity and inclusion, has since grown into a collective movement championed by three creative women of color passionate about creating safe spaces where discussions and problem-solving are more inclusive, collaborative, genuinely curious, and successful in landing collective solutions that work.

Black Female Founders (#BFF)

#BFF is a membership organization that works to provide awareness, support, resources and a platform for Black female entrepreneurs. It offers female entrepreneurs with resources on networking and business mentoring, as well as access to Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors and other forms of funding.

Kerra Michele Huerta

BUREAU is a boutique, members-only co-working space in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of NW Washington, DC. Designed with entrepreneurs in mind, BUREAU serves as a sanctuary for women to network, collaborate, and share ideas. This designer space is also available for private events, and hosts monthly gatherings and WERQshops for members and the community to come together.

Allie Brandenburger

TheBridge is a community sitting at the intersection of tech, policy and politics. We’re translating between the worlds of innovation and regulation, increasing collaboration and building a network of the influencers shaping the future of these industries.

InnovatorsBox® empowers leaders to integrate creative thinking at work regardless of their job title or industry. We make creativity practical, tangible and relatable. We offer creative consulting, coaching, workshops, speaking and curriculum development for leaders and organizations to unlock their creative potential.

Heather Metcalf

Co Director, STEM to Market

S2M: The AWIS Accelerator provides entrepreneurial education and support to STEM women with research or technology they want to commercialize.

S2M: AWIS Intentional Investing leverages our systemic change expertise to empower investors and funders with the tools & strategies needed for inclusive and profitable investment decisions.

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