Category Archives: Press Releases

 
Joyce M. Hunter is Deputy CIO with the Department of Agriculture responsible for IT workforce planning, info resource managing, development of policy, and geospatial and open data. a risk taker and determined professional, she has accomplished much throughout her near three decades of experience.
 
Joyce received her MBA as a Wharton Fellow and recipient of the 2011 Joseph A. Wharton award at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently affiliated with FACO and the Wharton DC Club where she has served on the government advisory panel innovation summit. A speaker on cyber security, workforce planning, IT performance and portfolio management, Joyce has been invited to speak at GITEC and JTRA.
 
Worldwide Women’s Association Member Joyce M. Hunter can be found in the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 

 
Holly Grosvenor is the chief architect at DiLeonardo. She has over 30 years of Professional Architectural Expertise and specializes in architecture, LEED certified design, consulting, design research, building conservation, urban regeneration, green building, historic preservation, and urban and interior design.
 
Holly is also the Project Manager and Project Architect on commercial and institutional projects including Beechwood Museum and the Wolfeboro Town Hall renovation. Outside of work she is a Board Member of the NCARB and AIA. When not working she enjoys water color painting, oil painting, traveling, and reading.
 
Worldwide Women’s Association Member Holly Grosvenor can be found in the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 
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Rasha Hammad is the Founder and CEO of Youth Underground. Youth Underground is the voice of the youth for a world free from human trafficking. It is a global information sharing and referral platform, a knowledge and youth hub, to showcase initiatives against human trafficking by the youth, as advocates of change and defenders of human rights across age and frontier. Youth Underground is a sounding board for the youth to express themselves, speak out freely about human trafficking, and share their news and campaigns from their regions of the world – ensuring that the youth are able to express themselves in their own words, in their own way, to their own audiences.
 
Prior to this position, she was the Senior Advocacy and Communications Manager at End Human Trafficking Now (EHTN), which spearheaded the link between businesses and human trafficking during the period 2006 to 2013. Rasha was responsible for EHTN’s public and media relations, and co-founding and managing EHTN’s youth programs, namely the Youth Against Human Trafficking network whose followers she expanded over four-fold in a year. From 2001 to 2004, Rasha was Speech Writer & Policy Adviser to the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in Geneva. Following this position, she continued in the field of Public Relations and Communications, working first as Director of Communication & Advocacy for the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud, and later as Senior Communications Consultant for various companies. From 2009 to 2010, she was a Board Member of Libertà association & helpline, the first hotline for victims of human trafficking in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
 
Rasha has a BA in International Studies and Business Management (Honors) from Webster University, Geneva, Switzerland, and was awarded a fellowship for her MA in Mass Communication, emphasis on Journalism, from the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She has published articles on a variety of topics in many sources over the last 20 years, namely for the Harvard Series on Population and International Health, USA, as well as the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, Wiley ed., UK. She is a recipient of the Together for Peace Award by Mariapia Fanfani, Rome, Italy, to testify women’s contribution to a culture of peace.
 
She resides in Geneva, Switzerland, where she continues to grow Youth Underground and raise awareness about human trafficking.
 
The Worldwide Women’s Association Member Rasha Hammad can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 
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Jane Sears is the General Manager of Commercial & Residential Fuels at MacEwen Petroleum, a Canadian owned and operated fuel and convenience provider serving communities across Ontario, Quebec and the Northeastern United States for over 35 years. Having joined the firm in 2014, Jane oversees sales operations across 14 locations, including both commercial and residential services for downstream petroleum. Responsible for multiple brands, she serves as strategist and account executive, bringing in new business growth.
 
After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of New Brunswick, Jane went on to complete a Master of Arts in Political Science from Dalhousie University. She launched her career as an Air Engineering Mechanic for the Royal navy in the United Kingdom, where she maintained and serviced military helicopters. Prior to joining MacEwan Petroleum, Jane was the Regional Manager for Bluewave Energy Ltd. and Sparlings Propane.
 
Jane has a strong background in operations, distribution, transportation, coupled with an exceptional educational background with numerous academic awards, making her an exceptionally qualified female professional in traditionally male dominated industries. She has sat on multiple boards, and finds great reward in encouraging young women and emerging female professionals to pursue career options they may have been excluded from in past years. She is a current board member of the Canadian Oil Heat Association, Ontario Chapter.
 
In her spare time, Jane enjoys the great outdoors.
 
Worldwide Women’s Association Member of the Year Jane Sears, MA can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 
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Svetlana Legoshina is the President of Simplekoz International Inc., an international trade consultancy founded to inspire and advise clients on business strategy and innovative techniques for trade between Europe and the United States. With more than 20 years of experience in international trade, Svetlana is an expert in the supply chain, logistics process and international markets. Herself a Russian émigré to Canada, she is a truly global citizen who offers her clients unparalleled insight and expertise.
 
Founded on the principal of simplicity being the key,  Simplekoz means “​ Simple key of zone”. Understanding that well-roundedness requires a holistic outlook that extends beyond the office, Svetlana established Simplekoz as a place where people from different countries could explore how to live healthful, wealthy, happy and creative lives, by transforming their behavior and realizing their goals.
 
In addition to being a seasoned change manager and transformational specialist, Svetlana is a talented holistic psychologist.  She is an inspiring teacher and “energy flow harmonizer,” who uses her expertise in several healing modalities including neuro-linguistic programming, multi-sensory intuition, physiology, Theta Healing, Signature Cell Healing, Quantum Light Waiving  and other cutting-edge techniques to help people move from a life of deep-seated challenges and fears to one of balance and freedom.  Her clients include individuals, couples, businesses and various unions around the world on both the conscious and sub-conscious levels. She helps people to harmonize and maintain their vibrational balance, by synchronizing the brain activity through the creative processes.
 
In addition to earning a Master of Arts in International Economics and Psychology from Saint Petersburg State University, Svetlana holds a Theta healing License from the Institute of Theta Healing. Prior to founding Simplekoz, she worked in the construction industry, where she established and eventually sold a company that specializes in log home construction.
 
Known as “The Bridge” by her peers, Svetlana has been published numerous times over the years and has just finished writing a book. She was recently named “Top Female Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2016 by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP), and in 2015 was Worldwide Branding Entrepreneur of the Year in Consulting.
 
In her spare time, Svetlana volunteers for Crime stoppers in her community of Oakville, Ontario, and enjoys golf, tennis, skiing and dancing.
 
Worldwide Women’s Association Member Svetlana Legoshina, MA can be found in the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 
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