MEET WOMEN NYC PIVOT TO GROWTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACCELERATOR: POWERED BY GET SH!T DONE SUMMER 2024 COHORT
Meet the Queens of Summer 2024 Cohort
In Partnership with New York City’s Economic Development Office, Women NYC and their Pivot to Growth initiative, we designed programming specifically for NYC-based entrepreneurs in successfully scaling businesses in Tech, Life Sciences & Green Economy.This intensive program leverages industry expertise and a proven business growth framework with tools to help you generate wealth growth and build a lasting impact. Get hands-on support tailored to your businesses’ unique goals and turn strategic insights into actionable growth.
The Get Sh!t Done Accelerator is focused on helping our womxn 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.
This is why we've included not only her picture but links that will allow you to learn more. Reach out to her and ask how you can help. The only way we can improve the entrepreneurial ecosystem is if we do it together.
Shii-Anna Mudie, CEO and founder of Resolument Vert Solutions LLC, is a trailblazer in sustainable building practices, blending engineering expertise with environmental advocacy. With a career spanning energy management, carbon reduction, and high-performance design, she champions equitable, clean energy solutions for vulnerable communities.
Location: New York, NY
Daphany Rose Sanchez is a New York native who has been passionately working as an energy equity advocate. Daphany founded Kinetic Communities in 2017. Daphany founded her organization when she saw the representation gap in the energy sector and knew something had to be done. Kinetic Communities is a New York certified social enterprise Benefit Corporation which advocates and implements strategic energy equity market transformations for diverse New York communities.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Jacqui Barrett is an economist, data scientist and growth strategist focused on turning data into revenue generating assets and data products for B2B SaaS firms. As the Founder of The Bright Arc, a data strategy agency, she leverages close to 15 years of experience across notable companies such as LinkedIn, Compass Lexecon and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to generate insights that close sales deals, fuel marketing and communications campaigns, develop product and inform public policy discussions. In her free time, she enjoys ceramics, sailing and kitesurfing.
Location: New York, NY
Dr. Lena S. Samuel, MD, MPH is an accomplished global health physician leader providing primary care and travel medicine services in New York. As a first generation American, she earned her Doctorate of Medicine from the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School with a Masters in Global Public Health from New York University and completed her residency training in Family Medicine at BronxCare.
Location: New York, NY
Ruby Emofovwah, a first-generation Nigerian-American entrepreneur, is passionate about sustainable business practices and global trade. With a degree in International Trade and Marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology, she has over a decade of experience in various sectors, including government, non-profit, beauty, fashion, food, and medical technology. As the founder of EKI-place, Ruby is committed to revolutionizing sourcing by connecting North American brands with ethical suppliers in Africa, promoting transparency, fair trade, and positive environmental impact.
Location: New York, NY
Brittany Brathwaite is a reproductive justice
activist, entrepreneur, and an emerging critical
Black feminist health psychologist with a
deep-seated commitment to supporting the
leadership, organizing, and healing of Black
women, girls, and nonbinary folks. She is the co-
founder and CEO of Kimbritive, the unapologetic sexual wellness platform reimagining the health and well-being of Black women. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies from Syracuse University and a Master’s in Public Health and Social Work from Columbia University."
Location: New York, NY
Karen has a record of launching b2b and consumer products in various startups and public companies. She has built systems for health systems to measure patient safety culture, identify risk triggers, and benchmark quality across their organizations. As a woman in software roles for many years, she has gotten used to being the only woman in the room and advocating for those not present.
Location: New York, NY
Sandra Cai, a zero-generation immigrant to the US from China, speaks more than three languages and is an undergraduate student at New York University, joint majoring in computer science and data science with a minor in mathematics. After high school, she worked for Microsoft as an MLSA, researching financial applications of blockchain technology, and for JD.com on cloud infrastructure, being the youngest and only high school graduate among Ph.D. students. Sandra has also worked for investment banks, a leading venture capital firm and two Web3.0 startups, creating businesses since high school (the first business was profitable without funding) and developing a unique perspective on innovation and entrepreneurship, currently focusing on solving deepfake and fraudulent issues with her latest venture, Plurall AI.
Location: New York, NY
Rachel has spent 18+ years contributing to biotech, life science and healthcare as both operator and investor. She has launched over 250 products and services throughout her career. Her current priorities at 42genetics are focused on fundraising to commercialize their platform, invest in partnerships, and build additional products for the toolkit.
Location: New York, NY