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Liz Forkin Bohannon
“Beginner’s Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose, Passion & Impact NOW!”

Liz Forkin Bohannon is the founder of Sseko Designs. Sseko is an ethical fashion brand that works to educate and empower women. By providing employment and educational opportunities, Sseko enables women to continue their education and become leaders in their country. In four years, Sseko has grown from three women making sandals together under a mango tree, to an international fashion brand that provides employment, educational opportunities and entrepreneurial training to over 50 women in East Africa. Using her unlikely story of a journalist-gone-shoe-maker, Liz shares her passion for social enterprise, conscious consumerism, social justice, creative leadership, gender equity, risk-taking, and empowering women. She believes deeply that business is a powerful platform for social change and that girls are our future.

Jess Pettitt
“Conversations That Matter: Demystifying Diversity”

Jess Pettitt combines irreverent humor, storytelling, current events, and historical patterns so that we can break through and do the best we can with what we have some of the time. Over her career, audience members report that they are inspired to have challenging conversations, work together better, take responsibility for who and how they show up, able to stand up and take action Jess uses history and her own struggles to showcase that we are all good enough to try to try to do something by eradicating excuses and providing humorous strategies at work.