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PH OTOGRAPH Y BY COLIN H UTH
The Durham Chamber of Commerce hosted its second annual Durham Women Take No Bull event at The Carolina Theatre on International Women’s Day. It brought together Bull City women across multiple industries and organizations to both inspire and inform one another through panel discussions, Q-and-A’s and a keynote address from Zim Ugochukwu, entrepreneur and founder of Travel Noire, a digital publishing platform that creates tools and resources for travelers.
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1 Panelists Dr. C. Nicole Swiner of Durham Family Medicine; Heather Pownall, director of business development at AICPA; Empower Dance Studio Owner Nicole Oxendine; and Bee Downtown Founder Leigh-Kathryn Bonner. 2 Durham Magazine’s own Ellen Shannon and her fellow panelists Lori O’Keefe, president & CEO of Triangle Community Foundation; Lori Jones Gibbs, senior vice president of community development banking for the Carolinas at PNC Bank; Heather Denny, CEO of McDonald York Building Company; and panel moderator Jes Averhart, executive director of Leadership Triangle.
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