Event Host & Panel Moderator
Akanke Adefunmi, Claim Your Shero
Self-Mastery Coach Akanke is a personal success coach, on a mission to help women discover their innate their power. She supports them as they step into the woman they were created to be and live a more present, energized, balanced and fulfilling life every day. Her workshops, retreats and programs are designed to help women live more fully in a deeper relationship with all aspects of their lives. Facebook: Claim Your Shero Instagram: @akankeadefunmi Visit Akanke’s Linkedin Page
Conference Speakers
Geraldine Convento, MeetGeraldine
SEO Expert and Talk Show Host, Speaker & Health Panelist
Geraldine Convento is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in the areas of web strategy, SEO and video production. She is also a YouTube talk show host & personality. For the past 16 years, Geraldine has focused on using self-awareness and spiritual practices as a tool for achieving work-life balance and pursuing projects outside of the workplace. Her passions include studying nueroscience, communication and the law of attraction.
Instagram: @geraldineconvento
YouTube: geraldineconventodigital
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Lauren Messmer, MeetGeraldine
Entrepreneurship Coach and Talk Show Host,
Speaker & Sexual Freedom & Relationships Panelist
Lauren Messmer is an entrepreneurship coach that loves interacting with people to support them in developing their business and its unique brand personality. She is the co-owner of MeetGeraldine, a co-host of the YouTube entrepreneurship talk show called, “Doin’ The Damn Thing” and an adjunct professor at San Francisco State University where she teaches “How to Start A Small Business.” Lauren is passionate about Activate Women because she loves seeing women supporting other women!
Instagram: @the_real_laurenmessmer
YouTube: dointhedamnthing
Tonia Z. , Ms. Glitter Inc
Entrepreneur & Event Curator,
Speaker & Wealth Building & Investments Panelist
Tonia has been a business owner for 17 years. She has has a multitude of brick and mortar and service based businesses under her brand, Ms. Glitter, Inc. in Oakland California. Tonia is also the founder of Brown and Black Boys in Finance and Tech (BBINFT), a tech company that educates under represented youth. One of the most important things she is passionate about is producing and curating events that help her community.
Instagram: @msglitterceo
Vicki Dello Joio, Way of Joy
Storytelling Coach
With her diverse background of speaking and performing arts, Vicki has developed unique teaching methods that empower people to focus their energy with increased awareness, transforming obstacles into opportunities and enhancing their creative potential. As a facilitator, offers a wide range of applications for personal growth, professional development and community building. Her speeches and workshops have proven highly effective for leadership development, conflict resolution, and communication across cultural differences.
Expert Panelists
HEALTH & WELL BEING
Chanda Jones, Cook with Chanda
Wellness Coach, Health & Well-Being Panel
Chanda is a Wellness Coach with a passion for finance + food. She’s coached women on their finances since 2007. Her long-standing love of food has evolved from creating underground pop ups to using food as an instrument of healing. Recently, she’s worked with individuals to help restore their health. Her approach to coaching centers the client’s culture with a focus on nutrient dense, anti-inflammatory foods, to support them in achieving optimal health.
Instagram: @cookwithchanda
Gloria Kamil, Gloria Kamil Total Transformation
Fitness and Fasting Coach, Health & Well-Being Panel
Gloria Kamil refers to herself as a Transformationist. She is a advocate of eating foods that encourage and support the health of the body and exercising most days of the week. With 40+ years of experience, she goes beyond the traditional approach of weight control, by addressing the whole person, Spirit, Mind & Body. She has been a practitioner of seasonal systematic fasting since 1978 and has since developed the “Gloria Kamil Natural Weight Release Journeys”, a unique lifestyle change program, employing systematic fasting as one of the foundation-building tool in the program. Gloria is also a certified Personal Trainer, Mat Pilates Instructor, Weight Management and Behavior Specialist and Herb Specialist.
Mosi Mays-Mirembe
Psychologist, Health & Well-Being Panel
Mosi Mays-Mirembe, M.A., M.P.H. is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist currently in private practice in Oakland, CA.
Mosi has worked as a psychotherapist for about twenty years, and as a mediator and conflict management consultant for more than twenty-five. Mosi works with a diverse array of clients from various socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. She specializes in couples and family counseling, as well as teaching life skills that enhance communication and facilitate peace.
Rebecca Mattice, Bloom Spa
Esthetician, Health & Well-Being Panel
Rebecca Mattice is a clinical-turned-Holistic esthetician and massage therapist who uses her own journey of total transformation and healing to inspire and guide others towards an enlightened approach to beauty through total wellness. As the founder of Bloom Healing Botanical Spa, she aims to help create a shift from problem based self care and beauty practices to those rooted in the celebration of one’s body. Rebecca’s favorite part of being a woman is tapping into the power, grace, and inclusion of divine feminine energy.
Instagram: @bloomspa.care
Facebook: bloomspa.care
FERTILITY & MENOPAUSE
Bette Vargas
Menopause Expert & Podcaster, Fertility & Menopause Panel
Bette’s mother died when she was 10 years old, so she wasn’t blessed with someone to guide her through the stages of womanhood. She learned from reading books and being a mother. She has acquired wisdom and empathy that empowers my clients. Her intention is not to disseminate information that is readily available on the Internet. She lovingly guides women through the unpredictability of menopause, alert them to the little known emotional symptoms like panic attacks, reckless behavior and overwhelm and encourage them to embrace their assuredness, wisdom and confidence.
Dr. Aumatma, Holistic Fertility Center
Naturopathic Doctor, Fertility & Menopause Panel
Dr. Aumatma is a Naturopathic Doctor, with a Master’s in Nutrition, who has been practicing medicine for over 10 years. She specializes in hormonal health, is the best-selling author of “Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn’t Tell You About Baby-Making,” and is a sought out speaker for all topics related to women’s health and empowerment. Dr. Aumatma was also awarded the “Best Alternative Medicine Practitioner″ award locally in 2015 and has been seen on shows such as Good Day Sacramento, The Black Renaissance and more! She consults with clients in the Bay Area and long-distance.
Instagram: @holisticfertilityspecialist
Facebook: DrAumamtaND
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Dr. Danielle Lane, Lane Fertility Institute
Fertility Doctor, Fertility & Menopause Panel
Website: lanefertilityinstitute.com
Jeanne Chung, Mighty Menopause
Founder and CEO, Fertility & Menopause Panel
Jeanne Chung, founder of MIGHTY, has spent half her career following her heart and helping people take better care of themselves. MIGHTY is a natural extension of that. MIGHTY was born out of her own personal journey revealing how undeserved women are regarding menopause. Her vision is to modernize menopause and in doing so elevate women as they age. She spent the other half of her career in her head as a banker and consultant.
Instagram: @phase_unfazed
Essential Oils Website: www.phase-unfazed.com
SEXUAL FREEDOM & RELATIONSHIPS
Chief Ifadunke Obyemi, Osun Wellness
Spritual Healer & Yoni Steamer, Sexual Freedom & Relationships Panel
Spring 1997 her beloved 91-year old Grandmother (Big Mama) joined the Ancestors. Contact with Big Mama challenged her religious education of non-belief in reincarnation. Spirits revealed the path of Indigenous Faith of Africa – (IFA). Through Osun Wellness, Ifadunke and partner, Oriyomi Omobalanu work with the Ancestors, Orishas, herbs and healing energy in reactivating spiritual balance for womb health in women. Osun Wellness collaborates with others to offer sacred spa events.
Kimi Avary, Conscious Couples Network
Relationship Navigation Specialist, Sexual Freedom & Relationships Panel
Kimi Avary is a Relationship Navigation Specialist. She works with men and women who challenged creating great relationships. She has a M.A. in Counseling, is an NLP Master Practitioner, and a certified relationship coach. She’s shared the stage with Marianne Williamson and Caroline Myss and worked with Multinational corporations such as Shell Oil and Chevron. She is a Best-Selling author of The Grandmother Legacies. Her upcoming book Relationship Navigation is endorsed by Dr. John Gray.
Instagram: @partnershipbliss
Patrice Shields, Bedroom Kandi
Consultant, Sexual Freedom & Relationships Panel
Patrice Shields is a Bedroom Kandi Consultant since 2016 she has been specializing in educating, demonstrating and encouraging women to love and explore their body. She enjoys the business of sex, beauty and women empowerment. What she loves about being a woman is the strength we have endure and overcome.
WEALTH BUILDING & INVESTMENT
Amani Algazzali, Primerica
Regional Leader, Wealth Building & Investment Panel
Amani was born and raised in Yemen until she was was 12 years old. She moved to the US in 1990. She discovered being a woman is beautiful and powerful through her travels across the world, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Jamaica. Today, she’s a Financial Coach, with passion to encourage and empower middle income families, to achieve financial freedom and to build wealth for generations to come.
Amber-Rose Freitas,
Cornerstone Financial Group
Financial Advisor, Wealth Building & Investment Panel
As an investment advisor representative, Amber’s main goal is growing and protecting her clients’ assets while in their working years and creating and implementing income distribution strategies designed to help provide lasting income for them in retirement. She is a fitness lover and enjoys outdoor activities such as boating, kayaking, and hiking.
Facebook: CFGStrategiesBenicia
Dale Marie Golden, Bridge Bank
Bank Vice President, Wealth Building & Investment Panel
Over 25 years of banking experience and being a community leader. Vice President of Bridge Bank in charge of Women Owned Business and Nonprofit banking. Specializing in banking and lending for small businesses. Nominated 3 years in a row 2017, 2018 & 2019 for Best Person in Oakland by Oakland Magazine.
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Naseema McElroy
Naseema is the founder of Financially Intentional, a blog about personal finance and living life intentionally. She discusses how taking control of her finances has enabled her to overcome bankruptcy, divorce, and break the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck. She shares her lessons along her path to help others benefit from the freedoms of financial independence.
Outside of encouraging people to get their financial act together, Naseema is a mother and Labor and Delivery Nurse.
Though making six figures for years, she struggled with money. Finally realizing she couldn’t out-earn her financial ignorance, she knew she had to make some changes. By shifting her mindset around money, being consistent and intentional, She has paid off $1 million in debt and grew a six figure net worth in three years without living in deprivation.
Instagram: @financiallyintentional
Riza K. Hernandez, EntreFolio
Chief Financial Advisor, Wealth Building & Investment Panel
Riza is the Chief Financial Advisor and Founder of EntreFolio Wealth Management. Riza provides wealth management strategies and services to non-profit organizations, private business owners, entrepreneurs and families. As a community leader, Riza is passionate about advocating for social justice causes. She chairs “Leaders in Motion,” a movement of young leaders who are driving positive change in Oakland and around the world and “Women Get it Done” and also sits on various Boards and Committees.
