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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">WE Lead Luncheon, 11/16! (Please share with students)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Good morning,<b> <br>
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</b>The Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s women’s entrepreneurial leadership program (WE Lead) is hosting a luncheon and celebration of innovative women founders, investors, and cross-industry leaders who are acting boldly to break barriers, blaze trails,
and launch movements that change industries, organizations, and communities around the world.
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This event is a great opportunity for entrepreneurially minded students to engage with a mix of fellow students, and entrepreneurial women from the community. Please share this invitation (for current UW students) to join us for
<b><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/washington.startuptree.co/event/s/QHxHoMZhLppYwbfTZRxUim/Rising-Tide---Women-Making-Waves-in-the-Startup-World__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!i7s3Wkg_zE2rR2YgKktlYz2hdetNZvGgEqDLSEm0Iq3wQj0lUc2fCigFb6tbzaO4mO7KOTCa92kyNmophQvwUmtM$">Rising
Tide: Women Making Waves in the Startup World</a></b>.<br>
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<b>The Event:<br>
</b>We are gathering on <b>Thursday, November 16<sup>th </sup>from 11:30-2:00pm</b>, just ahead of
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.womenseday.org/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!i7s3Wkg_zE2rR2YgKktlYz2hdetNZvGgEqDLSEm0Iq3wQj0lUc2fCigFb6tbzaO4mO7KOTCa92kyNmophQdH9yKp$">
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day</a> to build community and highlight entrepreneurial problem solvers, creative minds, and leaders on and off campus and celebrate the launch of the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s new women’s entrepreneurial leadership program,
<a href="https://foster.uw.edu/centers/buerk-ctr-entrepreneurship/womens-entrepreneurial-leadership-program/">
WE Lead</a>. <br>
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You will be joined for lunch by dynamic women leaders from a multitude of industries, all with their own stories to share. At the lunch table, you’ll make valuable connections with key members of the PNW entrepreneurial ecosystem, and with other innovative
students – you could meet your future co-founder, or a likeminded new friend! <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The event program features two co-Founders and UW alumnae who will interview one another in an intimate Fireside Chat sharing the highs and lows of their entrepreneurial journeys.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Students of any gender, and from any degree program, are welcome to attend. Do you know someone who should join us? Please forward this invite to them!<br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/washington.startuptree.co/event/s/QHxHoMZhLppYwbfTZRxUim/Rising-Tide---Women-Making-Waves-in-the-Startup-World__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!i7s3Wkg_zE2rR2YgKktlYz2hdetNZvGgEqDLSEm0Iq3wQj0lUc2fCigFb6tbzaO4mO7KOTCa92kyNmophQvwUmtM$"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">RSVP
now to attend Rising Tide: Women Making Waves in the Startup World</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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<img border="0" width="510" height="287" style="width:5.3125in;height:2.9895in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DA0CF0.A46AADB0" alt="This image promotes the details of "Rising Tide: Women Making Waves in the Startup World", including date, time, and location. It also includes a photo of two co-founders, a blonde woman wearing a white dress standing next to a brunette woman in a denim jacket, black shirt, and dark pants."><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Take care, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Winona Kantamaneni, MPA </b>(she/her)<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Assistant Director, Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Foster School of Business, University of Washington<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">P: <span style="color:#3D3D3D;background:white">
206-221-7094</span> | E: </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:gray"><a href="mailto:wrennick@uw.edu"><span style="color:blue">wrennick@uw.edu</span></a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Founders Hall 405, Box 353200, Seattle, WA 98195<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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