Meet the Queens of Cohort 4
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Kai Nortey is a socially conscious, Black woman, business visionary who is lactose intolerant and vegan. Kai is tenaciously leading the next inclusive and full-circle regenerative plant-based economy, with vegan coconut ice cream manufacturing and coconut byproducts for urban farms to make regenerative soil, in the Oakland-Bay Area of California. With local vegan ice cream manufacturing, Kai is addressing the most critical issues of our time: restorative economics and food justice, racial and gender equity, and climate justice.
Kai believes that there must be a paradigm shift away from supporting big, broken food companies that use and hide bleaching synthetic chemicals (sodium metabisulfite) in many common foods. Kai strongly believes that in order to re-build healthier, sustainable food models, we must support locally resilient, regenerative food systems. Regenerative food systems are making a “come back” and exist to restore life, health, joy, dignity, and equity back to people, animals, soil.
With patent-pending coconut equipment we crack, shred, and cold-press whole mature coconuts to obtain its fresh coconut cream and blend with bold, organic ingredients to make the most authentic and BEST TASTING vegan ice cream, without synthetic chemicals.
Kai defines food justice as the right to know what ingredients are in your food, the right to determine new, healthier food systems, and the right to determine healthier outcomes for people, animals, and mama earth.
Kaylee McMahon is the “The Apartment Queen”.
Kaylee has purchased over 68.2 million in multifamily real estate as General partner and principle. She sold over 3 million dollars in residential real estate before transitioning into her current full time syndication role. Originally from Portland Oregon, host of InvestHER Dallas. She has started a podcast called #1 leading ladies where she interviews kick-ass women who are disrupting their industry and the REAL story of how they got where they are. She is developing technology to help make it easy and convenient for women to learn how to make passive income through apartment investing.
Kaylee has done home flipping, as she feels that to be truly confident in giving advice to clients about buying/selling/flipping/investing in Real Estate one should NEVER take advice from someone who has never gone through these things themselves.
The entire backbone of what gets Kaylee out of bed everyday is her “why”. This is something she will share when asked personally about it, but at a 30,000 foot view it is to create independence and space for those experiencing codependency and toxic relationships which hamper their ability to visualize and then manifest what their amazing reality truly could be. Her company culture models this why and is “Changing the face of multifamily” to bring more women into the light as powerhouse operators, key principles, and commercial brokers. We will create 1 billion more female investors and “givers”.
Diana Marie Lee (she/the) is the founder of Sweet Livity and an elder healing woman whose roots are African American and Cherokee Nation, from Tahlequah and Muskogee, Oklahoma. Diana is a freedom fighter, an experienced healer, activist, entrepreneur and capacity builder who brings their UX/UI skills to bridge technology, good design, strategic planning, and social justice.
Diana has worked for the past 30 years to strengthen the leadership and systems capacity of organizations (nonprofit and for profit), government agencies and philanthropic institutions to define and achieve their goals. Diana’s focus is serving diverse vulnerable communities including immigrants and refugees, youth, elders, labor activists, farmers, poor and low income, people of color and children and adults with special health care needs.
Prior to founding Sweet Livity LLC, Diana served as Vice President of Programs at the National Community Development Institute and managed technical support and training programs in diverse communities across the country for individuals, organizations, and neighborhood/ community projects. Diana is a Past Chair and current member of the Board of Directors for the Highlander Center in Tennessee and currently partners with people of color and immigrant-led social justice groups across the country.
Diana is an intuitive coach and restorative HR practitioner who understands how to support leaders to work in diverse cultural contexts so that everyone, regardless of identity and background, can fully engage in the organizational or community work with their whole, authentic self.
Diana grew up working class in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives a bi-coastal lifestyle with bases in Richmond and Oakland, CA and Miami, FL.
Harroop has a 14-year long track record as a consulting executive leading Fortune 500 companies through complex, multi-million dollar strategic deliveries around the globe. She is highly determined, passionate about sustainability and making a meaningful impact with her work.
She is translating her corporate experience to build HOURS NEW YORK.
With nearly 70% of women wearing a size 14 or higher, she was enraged at how the majority of women continued to be marginalized by the fashion industry. She grew tired of saying “Sorry” when friends and colleagues would ask what she was wearing and if they could find it in their size.
She co-founded HOURS to fill a key gap in the plus size market by providing exceptional quality at an accessible price using a sustainable model.
Mia Umanos, (VP), is a 14-year veteran of marketing analytics who grew her career from Junior to Director inside digital marketing agencies. Her talent for balancing math and intuition turns her projects into gold. She lifted revenue $4M in 90 days through optimization, created a sustained 40% increase in ad revenue for a major publisher, and won a Google News Initiative Grant among other successes.
Now, she's pouring this energy into Clickvoyant, an analyst robot that has all those years of experience programmed into her, and make insights 24/7.
Tanya Mayo, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Owner of Be the Change Consulting, started her career in the nonprofit field as an educator, administrator, and capacity-builder. After building San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth and their Families (DCYF) Capacity Building program from the ground up, she saw a unique opportunity to draw from her experience in training, nonprofit systems, and youth development and in 2012, as a single mother, she took a leap of faith to join forces with Sangita Kumar, Founder of Be the Change Consulting (BTCC). Together they bootstrapped the company, growing the business over the next decade from two clients and a dream to a $1.7 million dollar for-profit business, with a social justice mission. BTCC has grown dramatically in this time, developing over twenty unique curriculum tools for use in classrooms and to support professional development, serving over 200 clients a year, and establishing a team of ten employees. In her role as COO, Tanya brings her vast skill set and core values to life, supporting the needs of the business and its clients. Her core genius includes coaching, developing leadership, program design, and applying a social justice analysis to support organizational transformation. Both professionally and personally, Tanya is committed to empowering youth and grassroots communities, working with numerous community groups and local organizations to transform how they engage with youth and build capacity to increase their impact within their communities. In her "free time” you can find her crafting, hiking, or organizing a Master Chef competition with her partner and four school-age children.
Mckinley Lauren Smith-Hindi is the founder of Anita Project. Her work experience spans international business, national politics, and local organizing. In addition to her current senior leadership position at Genentech, she was the first employee at Sidewire, a mobile news app where my remit included business operations, partnership development, beta product testing, and user acquisition.
Mckinley is also a founding board member of AnnieCannons, a nonprofit transforming survivors of human trafficking into software professionals, and a Leader 50 member. Most importantly, Mckinley personally experienced sexual harassment in multiple professional environments and understand the complications of the reporting process from both a victim and employer perspective. This experience inspired Anita.
Danielle started her career in Software Development leading teams of Quality Assurance Analysts. She spent years testing software and managing customer relationships in both the healthcare and legal industries until she left the field in 2010.
After that she went on a natural journey as a result of her son being diagnosed with asthma and admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. If you would have told her at any any point prior to this she would be making her own deodorant she would have laughed at your. Yet here she is, she's has built a natural skin and body care company using her skills in quality assurance to create an exceptional product. Also focusing on customer relationships as the driver of growth and customer loyalty.
Golden Sky Naturals is a balance of adventure and self care. The products do not compromise on clean - both human and environmentally, have a no b.s. ingredient list, and are created in-house by her and her team.
Stephanie Erwin is the Co-Founder of Cahoots, a sustainable kids' clothing rental service based in the Hudson Valley and NYC. Through Cahoots, they hope to offer an affordable and convenient way for families to consume clothing sustainably. By sharing clothes and extending the life of clothes through repair, they can significantly lower our collective household carbon footprint and our kids can learn to value experiences over stuff.
Rach Junard (she/they) is a wellness educator, movement instructor, and healer guide. They are also the co founder of You Good, Sis? A wellness collective that serves as a physical, spiritual and mental check in for Black and Brown women and femmes. Rach aims to cultivate an abundant and supportive environment for those who want to learn about, reflect on, and practice community accountability.