Speakers
Speaker | Date | Topic |
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Louise Langheier | Sep 24, 2024 |
Family mental wellness-focused companies
Louise co-founded Luminary Impact Fund to make grants and investments in ventures focused on family mental health and wellness. Previously, she co-founded Peer Health Exchange, Inc., an organization that helps fill a gap left by underfunded, understaffed health education programs in public high schools nationwide. As chief executive officer, Louise was primarily responsible for leading Peer Health Exchange’s national growth to show up for more young people, building and managing the Peer Health Exchange staff and boards, raising funds and providing fiscal and organizational oversight. At Yale University, her alma mater, she co-founded and directed Community Health Educators, the student volunteer program out of which Peer Health Exchange grew. Louise is an Aspen Entrepreneurial Education Fellow and an Ashoka Fellow. She sits on the Board of Directors of Cow Hollow School and America Achieves. Louise graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History. She lives in SF with her husband and three sons. |
Angela Glymph | Oct 08, 2024 6:00 PM |
Digital Media & its Impact on Youth Mental Health
Dr. Angela Glymph was selected as the CEO of Peer Health Exchange in 2023. She joined Peer Health Exchange (PHE)in 2014 and for the past 10 years, Dr. Glymph has led the organization through significant programmatic transformations, which has been guided by her strong belief to align to evidence- and stakeholder-informed practices. She and another executive leader co-developed PHE's current strategic plan, which is a bold and unprecedented vision to reach hundreds of thousands of young people in the places and spaces in which they say they need and want to be reached. . She has demonstrated her strong commitment to centering young people's voices within and outside of PHE in an effort to advance health equity for the most marginalized young people in our country. She previously held the position of President of the Youth Health Equity Collaborative (YHEC) business unit at PHE, where she fundraised for and maintained a budget of $7mil. In her former role, Dr. Glymph set the vision and plan for PHE’s work in addressing the health equity and education needs of over 15,000 young people annually in schools and communities across the country in partnership with the former CEO, board, YHEC Executive leadership, and young people. |
Rita Boccuzzi | Oct 22, 2024 6:00 PM |
Building an Empire of Hope for the Dignity of All Humanity
Rita Boccuzzi, also known as Mamma Rita Money, is CEO of Flourish Inc, a Safe Money Expert, Coach, Speaker, Executive Vice President of Five Rings Financial, Philanthropist and Humanitarian. She is passionately committed to her mission of educating and empowering five million women and their families in the next five years around money. Her focus is education based self-development around the behavior, knowledge, and skill set associated with money. She educates people with a holistic and transformational approach connecting them with their money’s purpose and how to protect it through mindset mastery to skill set mastery. Her belief is that a financially educated society is an empowered and elevated society. Together, we get to raise our financial intelligence and flourish. She has been featured on KTLA Morning News, the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles Business Journal, Voyage LA, and an Honoree "Women in Business" Most Inspirational Legislative Awards. She is a co-author of “Wine, Women, & Wealth – Inspirational stories of women who got their financial act together” and “50 Empowering Wealth & Financial Mind-$hifts.” You can find her as a guest on podcasts and as a speaker at summits and conferences. |
Guity Javid | Nov 12, 2024 6:00 PM |
Member Spotlight
Guity Javid's experience spans to thirty-eight years in banking, investments, and structured finance. Javid is the founder and President of Hutton Capital. She was Senior Managing Director and co-founder of Spring Street Capital. Prior to that she was a Senior Vice President and manager of the Western U.S. for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Senior Vice President and Manager of Western U.S. Corporate Banking for Wells Fargo Bank/First Interstate Bank, Western Region Manager for CIT Business Credit, Managing Director at Chase Manhattan Bank and Vice President at Citicorp. She is also a mediator with emphasis in business, bankruptcy, cross cultural, and diversity matters since 2006. She graduated from University of California at Berkeley in Business Administration. She is a member of Rancho Park Rotary Club since January 1991. She served as the President and numerous other positions in her club and district 5280. She was an investor with an angel organization focused in women owned businesses. Javid co-chaired the first American Cancer Society's "Relay for Life" in Beverly Hills. She has also served on various not-for-profit boards. |
Greta McAnany | Nov 26, 2024 6:00 PM |
AI-based digital mental health intervention
Greta is a VC backed entrepreneur with media roots as an award-winning filmmaker. She has spent the last 12+ years working at the intersection of media, technology (focus on AI for 5+ years) and mental health, building B2C and B2B2C products. Currently, she is CEO/founder of Blue Fever, a mental health AI companion and well-being community for Gen Z/Alpha. BF has been named Apple’s App of the Day and supported millions of people. The platform is a front door mental health solution and navigation tool that provides a bridge between the mental health needs of young people and the resources that can best support them. Most recently, Greta has been recruited as a technology expert to advise Congress’ AI Caucus and support proposed trust and safety policy meant to protect youth mental health and data privacy. She has given testimony in the senate and and continues to be active in the movement to bring accountability to big tech. She is also a public speaker who has been on panels and given keynotes for: SXSW, Google, Headstream Innovation Festival, Silicon Beach Festival, Techstars and universities like: USC, UCLA and NYU. She has been featured in Techcrunch, Forbes, CBS, Fox, NBC, Spectrum News, Nylon, the Masters of Scale Podcast, Product Lab Podcast and other mental health/startup podcasts. |
Jennifer Libby | Dec 10, 2024 6:00 PM |
Online Safety Act / developments in DC
Jennifer is the founder of Promly. She has been a therapist for teens and young adults for 20 years. She specializes in treating high risk adolescents. Jennifer has been an assistant principal and featured on podcasts. She has also served as a board member and provides consultation with numerous schools and agencies, including Center for Humane Tech (“The Social Dilemma”) on best practices for teens and tech, 2020. Jennifer speaks publicly on a variety of mental health concerns; she most recently spoke to members of Congress about the harmful effect of YouTube’s suicide “how-to” videos. Jennifer loves TikTok dances, is a huge fan of Gen Z, and feels like life would be better if every room had a disco ball. |
DARK / No Meeting | Dec 24, 2024 6:00 PM |
*no meeting*
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Janna Bowman | Jan 14, 2025 6:00 PM |
Chakras & sound healing
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Faye Sahai | Feb 25, 2025 6:00 PM |
Challenges & opportunities in youth & family wellness investments
Faye Sahai is Founding Managing Partner at Telosity Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in digital wellness and mental health. Faye has 25+ years of experience in healthcare, financial institutions, and insurance innovation and investment executive at Kaiser Permanente, Schwab, AIG, Blue Shield, and Deloitte Consulting and founded 3 of her own startups. She has served as an Advisor and Board member to over a dozen companies including Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, UCSF Catalyst, Berger Institute Vice Chair, ANA Innovation Advisory, Samsung Emerging Technology Advisory, Innovation Executive Forum, Summer Search, Autonomous ID, Somnology MD, Ayogo Health, Bridge Asia, and Ascend Leadership AEN & NorCal Chair. Faye has been recognized as Power 100 and Women of Influence by Silicon Valley Business Journal, Insurance Business Hot 100 and Elite Women in Insurance Business America, Tech for Good Women in Tech, Ascend Leadership Award, Computer World’s Top Premier IT Leaders, The Stevie Awards Women helping Women, Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Kaiser Permanente Asian Community and Innovation Enterprise Best Ideation Award. |