Meet the Queens of Cohort 5
The Get Sh!t Done Accelerator is focused on helping our female founders build repeatable, sustainable, and scaleable traction so they have the power to choose how they grow. As our founder detailed in Why We've Failed Female Entrepreneurs & What We Can Do About, you can help her get there. Follow her, check out her company, spread the word, reach out to her, purchase her products, utilize her service, make an intro if you love what she's doing.
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Farah Allen is an accomplished media technology leader with over 17 years of experience. Allen is currently the CEO & founder of ‘The Labz, The Labz is an interactive events platform that allows event organizers and content creators an entertainment-focused event solution that increases their RSVP rate and drives more revenue. Whether presenting films, theater productions, episodic and panel discussions, The Labz makes an exciting theatrical online experience. Farah's previous executive positions include President and CEO of The Allen Group Management consulting Agency, where her clients included fortune 500 companies, and CEO and Cofounder of Song Society App. Farah has the honor of being the AJC Women of the Year for technology and is featured in publications such as Forbes and The Washington Post. The Labz also was named by Atlanta American Inno top startup to watch.
Klum House founder Ellie Lum has over twenty years of professional bag-making experience. With roots in industrial sewing and small-batch manufacturing, Ellie's superpower is teaching makers to achieve professional-quality results on a home sewing machine - and have a hell of a lot of fun while doing it. She's passionate about empowering folks through sharing her craft.
Megan Burke Roudebush is the founder of keepwith®, a platform that teaches networking. Originally from New York City and now living in Chicagoland, her superpower is helping people to network better. Megan has a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Bryn Mawr College and a JD/MBA from Albany Law School and Union Graduate College. Her professional background is as a regulatory compliance leader, serving global organizations (Skadden, Moody’s, Deloitte) solving complex regulatory matters.
Niousha is a social scientist, serial entrepreneur, researcher and a visionary leader with a global approach and citizenship, and a sense of service and purpose connecting change-makers in diverse sectors to opportunities around the world. She has expertise in research, policy and practice working in more than 25 countries in directing organizations and programs, establishing strategic partnerships and working with innovators, CSOs, philanthropy, the private, public and third sector. She completed a PostDoc at Harvard University, a PhD in Education at the University College London (UCL), a Master’s degree in International Development from Cornell University, and a BS in Civil Engineering.
She is the co-founder of Global Black Youth that connects, amplifies and invests in the reach and impact of the most cutting edge solutions generated by young Black innovators and entrepreneurs on a global scale.
Julie Arsenault is the founder and CEO of Panty Drop, an inclusive intimates company with the best-fitting plus-size panty. They are tackling a multi-billion dollar market and growing rapidly. Larger women are the majority of the population, yet are still excluded from most stores who don’t stock their size.
For more than 20 years, Susan built a career in health care marketing untangling complex health care information to deliver simple, clear messaging that engaged target audiences. In 2017, she decided to leave corporate life and focus her energy on building a business where she could use her talents and make an impact in her community. She saw significant potential in franchising, specifically in the dog services industry which is experiencing incredible growth. As a dog lover and business-minded person, she decided that a Dogtopia franchise would offer the fresh, modern dog daycare services that pet owners have been craving.
Jillian Rothe is a Mom of 3, Engineer, and Lactivist who helps parents navigate the anxiety-filled new world of managing breastmilk and pumping when the MAMMaries have to be AWAY.
Before starting MAMMaway, Jillian spent over 13 years hoping a plane weekly around the globe for her Fortune 50 corporate job. When her first child was born and she was back to work at only 8 weeks, she successfully figured out how to both haul that cooler along as well as maximize the space in a tiny freezer back home in Singapore to ensure that her three children were exclusively breastfed.
After almost 4 years of pumping on planes and prototyping plates, her Freeze It Flat TM has helped 100s of moms maximize their freezer space and minimize the number of broken bags of liquid gold that get dumped down the drain. Her 1-on-1 coaching has helped new moms navigate anything from hopping a plane to visit Grandparents to juggling the schedule of getting back to work.
Crying over spilled milk should be a thing of the past. #FixMyMilkStash
Jillian enjoys playing outside in the mountains of Colorado and is looking forward to getting back to seeing the world with her family.
Kelly is an occupational therapist & entrepreneur born and raised in San Diego. As a student in 2016, Kelly was inspired by adaptive surfers to co-invent a portable pathway that empowers people of all physical abilities to easily access the outdoors. In 2018, Kelly launched Access Trax- a social impact startup that has since served customers across 11 countries. She has built a company and brand from the ground up utilizing her passion, grit, & creative use of resources. A finalist in over 5 national grant competitions, Kelly won the FedEx Small Business Grant Grand Prize in 2020. In addition to growing a startup, Kelly enjoys volunteering, baking, hiking and mentoring the next generation of problem solvers.
After 5 years of working in the tech-corporate sector and unable to identify her lane, Alexandria realized she had to carve out her own lane in order to create the miraculous in her life. With a deep passion for protecting clean water resources, Alexandria built a company with the virtuous task of creating neighborhoods where rainwater, the community, and the land where the rain falls are in perfect harmony. As a black woman, she is here to break down barriers in the green stormwater infrastructure industry for other black women who never thought it possible to follow such a passion for protecting and preserving clean water.