Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Elisa Parker. Elisa connects people through the power of story, partnership and solutions to amplify women’s leadership and close the gender gap. She has served as the founder of cutting-edge organizations and programs, a nationally acclaimed radio host, producer, coalition builder, strategist and visionary for equity and social justice. She currently oversees Equal Voice | Equal Future, a new gender justice media hub championed by the Fund for Women's Equality and its sister organization, the ERA Coalition. Moving from silos to solidarity through partnership development, programming and hosting the Coalition’s new podcast, Equality Talks, she is intent on spreading the word of the Equal Rights Amendment to ensure the 28th Amendment is published in our Constitution. Elisa is the founder, director and host of the award-winning media program and organization, See Jane Do, co-founder of 50 Women Can Change the World in Media & Entertainment, Indivisible Women and 100 Women Change Hollywood. Other notable works include creating the Passion into ActionTM Women’s Conference, TEDxGrassValley, Raising Jane and the See Jane Do Media Lounge. She's spoken at events such as, The United State of Women Summit, UN Commission on the Status of Women, TEDx, The Women’s March, March for Civility, The Power Women Summit and Netroots Nation. She reaches thousands through partnership with like-minded organizations and develops organizational-wide initiatives, communications strategies for events and digital media campaigns that support gender equality, diversity and inclusion. For over 17 years she has served as an award-winning talk radio host and DJ for KVMR and hosted and managed the Wild & Scenic Film Festival Media Lounge, the largest festival of its kind. Her interviews include luminaries such as Lily Tomlin, Gloria Steinem, Eve Ensler, Melissa Etheridge, Shawn Colvin, Mick Fleetwood, Donna Karan, Geena Davis, Patrick Stewart, Debra Winger, Yvon Chouinard, Jennifer Newsom, Michael Franti, Kathy Griffin, Krishna Das, Joan Blades, Indigo Girls, Sandra Bernhard, Monique Coleman, Simrit Kaur, Terry Tempest Williams, Helen Reddy and other positive deviants across the country who have taken a left turn and are creating new models, programs and systems to create positive social impact. Elisa is a recipient of the Jody Fenimore Award for Public Affairs and Osborn-Woods Community Service Award. She served on the KVMR Board of Directors and the Advisory Committee to SheAngels. Elisa is an alumna of the Women’s Media Center Progressive Women’s Voices program, Take the Lead Women and the Vote, Run, Lead Go Run program. She holds a BA in Communications from San Francisco State and a MA in Organization Development & Leadership from the University of San Francisco.

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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Chaz Sandifer, the Founder| and CEO of theNEWmpls, Let Go Let Flow and Stories Behind the Menu. She started her health and wellness journey over 10 years ago, in search of her true authentic self, she found her passion for wellness that led her to build theNEWmpls, a company that promotes health and healing through community and organization partnerships. Her work has focused on serving a diverse population, and promoting racial health and equity through the lens of fitness, wellness, and nutrition.

Chaz has a background in Marketing and International Business, is a Certified group fitness instructor, Certified Life & Wellness Coach in Diabetes,Arthritis Prevention, and trauma healing. She offers individual coaching, consulting for organizations, fitness classes, meal-prep courses, and is the only Black woman who owns a farmers market in MN. She has coached over 700 men and women who are pre-diabetic and overweight. She offers custom health and wellness programming to support those who are working through trauma.

She hosts a weekly podcast called Fitness Revolution with Chaz. She is a public speaker who is frequently asked to speak on entrepreneurship, a balanced life, and racial health and equity. Chaz is a co-leader of the communications work group for Community Engagement to Advance Research and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. She also sits on the Board of Directors for 180 Degree’s and Women’s Venture and is now the President for the Robbinsdale Chamber of Commerce.

Chaz was an Executive Producer on her first documentary “Stories Behind the Menu”, that debuted and opened the 2023 Twin Cities Film Festival.

She is the honoree for MSP Journal Women in Business Award 2023, TRUST Leadership Award for women in healthcare 2023, and the Minnesota Twins Game Changer of the year 2023.

Chaz’s children are an integral part of her business and vision, they are the CFO and CMO. She is humbled and grateful for the work she gets to do in health & wellness.

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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Cat Curry Williams and Theresa Ashby of the She Angels Foundation. The She Angels Foundation awards grants to grassroots female-founded non-profit organizations that provide mentorship, funding & resources to a diverse portfolio of women’s and girls’ causes. She Angels isn’t just a Foundation; it’s a movement that empowers young women and girls to help solve critical unmet needs. They believe that by combining charitable donations, we can more powerfully meet the challenge of funding women’s causes that have been underfunded for too long. The She Angels Foundation is about women helping women.

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