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NETWORKING TAKE NO BULL WOMEN’S CONFERENCE
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P H O T O G R A P H Y BY K E N H U T H The Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce hosted their annual Take No Bull Women’s Conference at the Millenium Hotel on International Women’s Day, March 8. The day began with breakfast and coffee while perusing vendor booths, including APlus Test Prep, Genuity Concepts, Prism Coaching, Dress for Success and Cloud Giants, among others. Leslie Walden, regional vice president of public affairs for Fidelity Investments, emceed the event, which also featured keynotes by Sally Afia Nuamah, assistant professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke, and Leigh-Kathryn Bonner, founder and CEO of Bee Downtown. Guests spent the morning attending breakout panel sessions that covered topics ranging from the value of women in the C-Suite and a business woman’s guide to self-care to being a woman of color in business and navigating today’s intergenerational workforce. The day ended with lunch and an afterparty at WeWork.
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1 Duke Energy District Manager for Durham, Orange, Chatham and Lee Counties Indira Everett, Durham Magazine COO Rory Gillis and ABC-11 President and General Manager Caroline Welch. 2 Sally Afia Nuamah, opening keynote speaker. 3 Momentum Learning CEO Jessica Mitsch and PNC Bank SVP of Community Development Banking Lori Jones-Gibbs. 4 Nugget Comfort Owner/Director of Marketing Hannah Fussell, Closing Keynote Speaker Leigh-Kathryn Bonner and Bee Downtown Regional Account Manager Scottie McLeod. 5 Emcee Leslie Walden.