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Women to Watch | Women’s Collective Newsletter | May 2024
May 21st, 2024
The Columbus Chamber Women’s Collective is a dynamic and empowering community of women united by a common purpose – to celebrate women in the workforce, supporting them at every stage of their career. This vibrant group, rooted in Columbus, Ohio, seeks to inform, connect, champion, and advocate for women in the Columbus Region. The Collective offers a diverse range of resources and opportunities for women of all backgrounds.
This month, help us celebrate and promote our peers! Share the names of women making an impact in their roles and the community. Looking to highlight a “Woman to Watch”? Let us know or fill out the form here!
Alexandra Untied
Sales + Client Strategist at Crimson Design Group
Alexandra Untied of Crimson Design is passionate about making her client’s dreams a reality. She dedicates the time and attention to each of their needs, going above and beyond. She also manages the Bazaar, and supports her marketing coordinator, always willing to take on more roles in order to ensure Crimson’s brand is the best it can be. Outside of her direct role at Crimson, she is involved in several organizations. She sits on the board for YES Columbus, a professional philanthropic organization that supports Dress for Success, ensuring everyone has an equal opportunity to look and feel their best for their careers! She also sits on the board for Habitat Young Professionals, where she serves as the Events Coordinator. Alexandra exemplifies Habitat for Humanity’s vision that everyone deserves an equal place to live and helps organize events to support that vision. She has become a friend and mentor in the industry, a true “girls’ girl”, always wanting the best for those around her.
Nominated by: Lauryn LeVan, Marketing and Business Development | Berardi + Partners
Nominated by: Lauryn LeVan, Marketing and Business Development | Berardi + Partners
Sandrine Bingoko
Sr. Branch Manager at Lingo Staffing
Sandrine, she has been a great impact in educating our employers about our workforce especially in our refugee and immigrant community. Her education and leadership has helped most of our employers feel comfortable working with our immigration community and expanding our workforce by providing training on completing I-9s with different documentation that most employers didn’t know like I-94s and more! She doesn’t stop there, she helps in connecting our immigrant workforce to community education like ESL class to further help their understanding of English and work safety in warehouses. She is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all that are willing to work. Thank you!
Nominated by: Immy Bingolo, Recruiting Manager | Lingo Staffing
Nominated by: Immy Bingolo, Recruiting Manager | Lingo Staffing
Christina Boulding
Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Columbus Urban League
She has made a great impact in her current role of moving the needle in how we are telling the stories of available services that impacts individuals and families who are in need of those services the Columbus Urban League has to offer to the public. And thesestories will also attract public and private interest to our funding our programs. We are able to reach out to the community in many big ways. There much more in how we are fundraising to expand service to those families in needs.
Nominated by: Lauryn LeVan, Marketing and Business Development | Berardi + Partners
Nominated by: Lauryn LeVan, Marketing and Business Development | Berardi + Partners
Pamela Gregory
Owner / CFO at National Center for Urban Solutions
Pamela Gregory has never heard the phrase “That’s not our line of work.” When a problem confronts Gregory’s community, her organization, the National Center for Urban Solutions (NCUS), gets involved. From health to education, to workforce development, Pamela Gregory is working to solve systemic problems that have long affected urban communities. The organization, founded by Pamela Gregory and her husband, John Gregory, has lifted tens of thousands of individuals in Ohio off government assistance to self-sufficiency. Her work has been acknowledged by Ohio Governors, Ted Strickland and John Kasich, President Barack Obama, and prestigious publications like Forbes Women, Black Enterprise, INC Magazine, and Mahogany Magazine. She has also become highly engaged in education, founding two high schools in Ohio that serve as education recovery centers. The schools also have a program where individuals 22 years and older can earn a high school diploma. Recently, a 73-year-old student walked across the stage in a cap and gown. Gregory says, “It’s never too late to graduate.” In addition to the high schools, the Gregory’s have founded a technical education center that enables people of all backgrounds to receive career certifications. Closing the technology gap is a prime focus for Gregory.Pamela Gregory’s latest project, Uplift Her, is taking off at light speed. Founded in 2021, the initiative aims to increase health and wellness for women of color who are more likely to suffer from breast cancer, heart disease, and stroke. The program provides women with free health screenings, empowering them to lower their health risks. In 2023, Uplift Her held events in Columbus, Ohio, and Houston, Texas – reaching thousands of women.She is a graduate from The Ohio State University and serves on the board of several organizations such as the Franklin Park Conservatory Women’s Board, NCUS TEC, AAMWA, and SisterServ. She is also a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and was honored as part of the 2024 Women WELDing the Way Honoree. She’s also received the Sarah Elizabeth Smith Community Award for Education and Health Advocacy. Pamela Gregory’s work touches people of color of all ages, from children at charter schools to young adults receiving career certifications in cutting-edge fields to senior citizens learning about their blood sugar and blood pressure numbers. Urban communities and people of color have long grappled with systemic problems. Pamela Gregory examines these gaps and works tirelessly to close them.
Nominated by: Maude Hill, AVP | Community/Public Relations | Columbus Urban League
Nominated by: Maude Hill, AVP | Community/Public Relations | Columbus Urban League
