Three executives from DMG Investments, a leading global real estate investment management and development firm in NYC, Taryn Byron, Gloria Westgate and Indira Basu share personal experiences and offer unique insights into real estate and the concept of smart living.

Women’s Power Toolkit Talks

Women in Real Estate Tell Real Life Stories

December 10th, 2020

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Guest Speakers:  Taryn Byron is the president and broker of CJ Dalton, a leading real estate firm that focuses on new developments and multi-family residential leasing. Ms. Byron is the lead real estate consultant for DMG Investments and with over seventeen years of hands-on experience in real estate sales and mentorship, she plays an integral part in the ongoing development of the firm.

Gloria Westgate, Chief Business Development Officer at Praxis Modular, is an experienced Sales Professional with a strong history of working in both the construction and contract furniture industries. Highly skilled in Negotiation, Budgeting, Operations Management, Business Development, Sales, and Sales Management. Strong sales professional with a master's degree from The Johns Hopkins University and Bachelor's Degree from Dickinson College. 

Indira Basu is a Human Resources professional with expertise in managing core HR functions across diverse industries. Prior to DMG, Ms. Basu served as the HR manager at one of the largest global telecom companies where she oversaw operations of over 130 employees in the United States. As the Head of Human Resources at DMG, Ms. Basu manages all HR functions.

Hear how to develop financial resilience and advice on managing your money. 

Financial advisors Chunyee Miot and Susan Ng will share their personal stories and describe how resilience can be nurtured through attitudes, behaviors, and social supports.

Women’s Power Toolkit Talks

Building Resilience

December 3rd, 2020
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Guest Speakers: Chunyee Wong Miot received her B.S. in Accounting from Baruch College in 1996 and became a licensed CPA in New York in 1999. Chunyee started her own CPA firm in 2005. She is also a licensed financial adviser with Transamerica Financial Advisor.
 

Chunyee is passionate about educating individuals and entrepreneurs. She actively participates in corporate and community events to provide financial wellness information. Chunyee Wong Miot is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and New York Society of CPA’s.
 

Susan Ng has spent her career in investment banking, corporate finance and business management. She has held several different positions at Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup and Morgan Stanley. She worked at the NY State Executive Department, Division of Budget. She is passionate about helping women to be resilient through financial literacy. She has an MBA from Hofstra University.

A special event with singer and actress Mariah Bonner about her inspiring musical journey through the pandemic. 

When the world of live concerts shut down, she went online and developed a series of online shows, bringing her friends and fans together every Friday, sharing her love of song and lifting spirits in the troubling time of pandemic. The result? A beautiful album of songs At Last. 

Women's Power Toolkit Special Event

Mariah Bonner's Musical Journey

November 19th, 2020
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Guest speaker: Singer and actress Mariah Bonner was born in Baltimore and grew up in Paris, where she studied classical dance and acting, and played her first commercial role in a French television film. Mariah graduated from The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. She has worked as an actress in film and television and sings in clubs in New York, L.A. and Baltimore. 

Find out more at TheMariahBonner.com .

Explore the healing power of poetry with Chinese poet Ming Di. 

She shares the inspiration of her ancestral home, now underwater due to the building of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, China, and then read some of her new poems, written in English, inspired by this moving subject.

Women's Power Toolkit Talks

The Healing Power of Poetry

  November 12th, 2020

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Guest speaker: Ming Di is a Chinese poet, born in Wuhan, currently living in California.   The author of seven books of poetry in Chinese, Ming has received two literary awards as a Chinese diaspora writer and the Luce Fellowship. She has translated Marianne Moore, e e cummings, Terrance Hayes and many other American poets into Chinese and co-translated many contemporary Chinese poets into English.

 She has edited several anthologies including New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Tupelo Press, 2013) and New Poetry from China 1917-2017 (Black Square Editions, 2019). 

 Learn from our conversation with environmentalist Coralie Cooper on the positive steps being made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

We are all worried about the devastating effect of air pollution and global warming. Learn about the breakthrough work in policy and implementation that is being done to help to save our planet.

Women's Power Toolkit Talks

Build a Green Career to Help our World 

November 5th, 2020

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Guest speaker:  Coralie Cooper has worked on environmental issues for over 20 years with states and the federal government.  She is currently Deputy Director of the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), a non-profit association of the air pollution control programs in eight Northeast states.  NESCAUM provides technical advice and policy guidance to states on their air pollution control and climate programs.  

  Learn about insights on polling and the 2020 election with expert Professor Charles Tien.

What were we looking for in the final week before the election? What did the polls say and should we have had confidence in them? Hear from one of the experts on judging what the current data says about who will win on Election night.

Women's Power Toolkit Talks

Presidential Elections Overview

October 29th, 2020

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Charles Tien is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He has served as department chair, was selected to be a Fulbright Scholar in American Politics at Renmin University in Beijing, China, and worked as a congressional staffer on Capitol Hill. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on American politics, women and minorities in politics, voting and elections, American foreign policy, research methods, and polling. 

 Entrepreneur and Street-Smart Entrepreneurs founder Jack Killion gives tips on how to be a successful entrepreneur and the importance of networking.

In the midst of the pandemic, entrepreneurs see opportunity to provide solutions to problems and envision ways to do things differently. Hear from a seasoned professional who won’t stop looking towards the future.

Women's Power Toolkit Talks

The New Entrepreneurism

October 22nd, 2020

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Guest speaker: Jack Killion has successfully launched and built nine different business in publishing, manufacturing, investment services, real estate development and others. Street-Smart Entrepreneurs is his 10thstartup. He has taught entrepreneurial studies in three business schools. A consultant to “C” level leaders while with McKinsey & Company, he has served on multiple corporate and charity boards. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering Degree from Yale and an MBA from MIT Sloan School.

 Writer and publisher Karen Christensen  discussed what she has learned collaborating on  Encyclopedia of Chinese Cuisines, how Chinese cuisine is a window into Chinese history, culture and diplomacy.

Currently compiling the Encyclopedia of Chinese Cuisines, Karen shared how this varied and rich cuisine is essential for the culture, community and diplomacy.

Women's Power Toolkit Talks

Chinese Cuisines: History and Diplomacy

October 8th, 2020

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 Karen is the CEO and founder of Berkshire Publishing Group, and also a writer specializing in sustainability and community with a focus on China. Starting with the award-winning Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, published by Scribners, her own company then produced the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China and the Dictionary of Chinese Biography. Now she is working on the Encyclopedia of Chinese Cuisines.
Karen is a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Press, and an associate in research at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University. 

Author Kim Bendheim joined us for a special talk on her book about the fascinating life of Maud Gonne, The Fascination of What's Difficult, A Life of Maud Gonne.

Activist and journalist Maud Gonne left her mark on everyone she met and famously won the devotion of poet, William Butler Yeats. Born into tremendous privilege, she openly defied what was at the time the world’s most powerful empire as an activist for the cause of Irish independence.  Kim Bendheim has gives us an intensely personal assessment of Maud's thrilling life in her new book, The Fascination of What's Difficult,  A Life of Maud Gonne.

Women's Power Toolkit Talks

 A Conversation with Author Kim Bendheim

October 1st, 2020  

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Kim Bendheim is a poet and writer. Her byline has appeared in The Forward, The Nation, The Chicago Tribune, Ladies Home Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Bomb magazine, which published her poetry. A cum laude graduate of Harvard University, she received two Masters degrees. She lives in New York City.

Pre-order Kim Bendheim's book The Fascination of What's Difficult,  A Life of Maud Gonne here. 

  We discussed our concerns Living in Uncertain Times with Mary T. White, former Professor of Medical Humanities in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, at the Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University. 

Mary is learning from her own reactions to this transition, occurring as it is in a time of exceptional uncertainty over our national and global future. Learn from their thoughts and strategies – we’re all in this together! 

Women's Power Toolkit Talks

Living in Uncertain Times

 Thursday, September 24th, 2020

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Mary T. White, former Professor, Medical Humanities, Dept. of Population and Public Health Sciences, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University Mary retired this summer from 25 years teaching medical ethics and humanities in an Ohio medical school; she relocated to Vermont in August and is in the process of creating a new home and a new life closer to old friends and familiar landscapes. 

We were honored to host a conversation with Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard University, about Free Speech on Campus.

Given academic challenges due to the pandemic, what is the state of free speech on campus ? In a political and cultural climate of deep divisions and heightened polarization, must free speech be at odds with anti-racism and inclusion? During a campaign season, can we maintain civility when so much is at stake?

 
Women's Power Toolkit Talks

Free Speech on Campus

September 17th, 2020 

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Guest speaker: Randall Kennedy is Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard University, an author of six books and an expert on freedom of expression, race relations law, civil rights legislation, and the Supreme Court.