{"id":222312,"date":"2023-10-12T13:17:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T17:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/?p=222312"},"modified":"2023-10-26T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T15:38:11","slug":"women-entrepreneurship-week-celebrates-10th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2023\/10\/12\/women-entrepreneurship-week-celebrates-10th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Entrepreneurship Week Celebrates 10th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: 10\/26\/2023: Montclair State University’s Women Entrepreneurship Week<\/a> event was livestreamed and can now be viewed online<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Posted 10\/12\/2023: Women Entrepreneurship Week,<\/a> which began at Montclair State University and grew into a global event, will celebrate 10 years on October 18, 2023.<\/p>\n

Created and hosted by the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship + Innovation, this year\u2019s event will feature a new networking luncheon followed by speakers and a panel discussion of entrepreneurial women at the University Hall Conference Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to welcome a superstar lineup, featuring innovators, experts and policy makers having honest conversations that will leave attendees feeling inspired and motivated for the journey ahead \u2013 whatever that may be,\u201d says Liz Rich, acting executive director of the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship + Innovation.<\/p>\n

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Some of the speakers at the 10th Annual Women\u2019s Entrepreneurship Week event include (clockwise from top left) Farnoosh Torabi, Paula Machado Jackler, Cyndie Spiegel, Cynthia Pong, Sara Pe\u00f1a, Adriana Carrig and Maya Brooks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The event runs from 1 to 3 p.m. with the new luncheon preceding. The WEW 2023 speakers and panelists lineup looks like this:<\/p>\n

11:30 a.m. \u2013 Networking luncheon and book signing by Farnoosh Torabi, a leading personal finance expert and author of many books, including her most recent, A Healthy State of Panic: Follow Your Fears to Build Wealth, Crush Your Career, and Win at Life.<\/i><\/p>\n

1 p.m. Program begins<\/p>\n

1:15 p.m. \u2013 Cyndie Spiegel, best-selling author of two books including her latest, Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life is Not Okay<\/i>, will deliver a keynote.<\/p>\n

1:30 p.m. \u2013 Fireside chat: Kindness guru, and founder and CEO of the Little Words Project Adriana Carrig will be in conversation with Amy Ogbonna, board member of Herself Co. (formerly The Block Organization), a nonprofit also dedicated to kindness among young women.<\/p>\n

2 p.m. \u2013 Panel: Turning Funding Fear into Fuel. This panel will feature personal finance expert Farnoosh Torabi; Maya Brooks, founder and CEO of Privy Labs; Sara Pe\u00f1a, PSEG director of external affairs; and Paula Machado Jackler, founder of Ozzie, an AI-powered financial planner and coach that uses psychology to help people get their money and life together.<\/p>\n

2:30 p.m. \u2013 Author, career coach, speaker and self-described \u201chype woman for women of color\u201d Cynthia Pong will deliver the closing keynote.<\/p>\n

The event will end with an awards ceremony, a giveaway and more networking. \u201cWe hope you can join us as we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Women Entrepreneurship Week at Montclair State University,\u201d Rich says.<\/p>\n

Register to attend this free event. <\/a>For tickets to the networking luncheon visit this webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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