PowerUP! ALLIES

Get the Most of YOUR Day: PowerUP! Preparation

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken - Oscar Wilde

Work Ready Women provides many opportunities to give and gain the career PowerUP! between peers, between employment levels, between industries, AND between those who are unlikely to meet.

Make an effort to connect with an unlikely pairing. The woman who has an extensive network of allies - giving and gaining meaningful career PowerUPs! - understands strong allies can come from the most unlikely of places.  She understands that how the appearance of a mismatch in ambition, skills, and aspiration often leads to an unexpected leap forward.

Use every activity to seek to give and gain 5 minute PowerUPs to peers, colleagues, and those who appear to be a "mismatch". 

Ask Kimberly, (Flying Bridges), how the convergence of a pizza sign, a twisted ankle, and a French speaking parliamentarian came together to help secure Her Royal Highness Princess Caroline of Monaco to Chair the Flying Bridges' Leadership Forum!

BOSTON AREA PROFESSIONALS (entry, early, mid, and senior levels of  experience)

AGYARE, Dora K.
Dept. of Veterans' Services, NSBE Boston, and The ExploratoryOffice Specialist II, (NSBE) Finance Chair, Corporate Relations Lead, (The Exploratory) Corporate Liaison
AU, Regina
BioMarketing Insight New Product Planning/Strategic Commercial Consultant
BAYDAR, Dr. Teri
White Lily Individual Development LLC Advisor and Coach
BILLER, Sarah
State Street Bank, Head of Innovation Ventures
BIRCH, Lynn
Skreens Entertainment Technologies, VP Customer Engagement, Support and Innovation
BOTCHKOVA, Maria
OneCall Care ManagementVP Application Development
BRENNER, Jennifer
Sensata Technologies Process Design Engineer
BROWN, Kelli
Akamai Technologies Software Engineer
GARBARINO, Leslie
Gambit, Founder
GIULIA Rebecca, Maria
Hult Teaching Assistant
HOFFMAN, Natty
Quiet Signal, CFO
KENNEDY, Jennifer
Amazon Robotics Technical Advisor
KHURAM, Sadia
Mobilink/Vimpelcom, Director Customer Experience & Customer Care
KRANZ, Janice
Self-employed Consultant
MCCORMICK, Liz
Pegasystems
MIREKU, Stephanie
Clark University Event and Office Assistant
MONACO, Meredith
Raytheon Company Manufacturing Program Manager
OSLOWSKI, Christine
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Freelance Social Media Content Specialist
PRAGER, Amy Beth
Foundation Ceibal, University of the Republic, Uruguay, Gender Issues in STEM Expert
QIRKO, Oljeta
Sensata Technologies, Sr. Engineering Manager
SAMORA, Robin
Robin Samora -- PR and Small Business Marketing Founder
SANKEETHA, Selvarajah
Law P.C. Managing Attorney
STONE, Samantha
Marketing Advisory Network CMO & Founder
TOVAR, Laura
Esguerra Asesores Juridicos Senior Associate
YEE, Karen
Howard Hughes Medical Institute/MIT Research Specialist II/Lab Manager

Corporate Allies

                         POWERUP! HOST
FLYNN, Brenda
Partner Operations Manager
WORBS, Leah
University Programs Specialist

                   WOMEN'S NETWORK
COX, Andrea
Executive, Aviation, Engineering Quality
and Compliance
FOOTE, Erin
Aviation, Component Test Engineer
LESSARD, Bridget
Aviation, Lead Design Engineer
MCCOMBER Halle
Digital Commercial Leader
PAZIENZA, Nancy
Aviation, Systems Engineering,
Requirements Leader
SULLIVAN, Sharon
Aviation, Customer Account Manager
WILLIAMS, Christina
Oil & Gas, Operations Management Leadership Program Materials Leader
WYSE, Jennifer
Oil & Gas, Project Manager

WOMEN'S GROWTH NETWORK
CHANDRASEKAR, Hema
Senior Engineer
LAM, Irene
VP, R&D
WOODWARD, Martha
Release Engineer
PASS, Robin
Senior Software Engineer - QA
SANTOS, Anita
VP Marketing
SULJIC, Sanela
Principal Web Engineer
TUNG, Sarah
Project Engineer
SEELEY, Teresa
Principal Engineer
WENG, Wendy
Sr. QA Engineer

Entrepreneurial Allies

DONOVAN, Katie
Founder, Equal Pay Negotiations

CARLTON, Bobbie
Innovation Women, Innovation Nights, Carlton PR & MarketingFounder

Student Allies

AHMED, Abrar
University of Massachusetts Boston, Biology
ARAVINDAKSHAN, Asha
Operations Director, Global Talent (fmr) / MIT Sloan Fellow
BAI, Yannan
Boston University, Electrical Engineering
BLAU, Hannah
Research scientist/software engineer Ph.D
CHANDRASEKAR, Prakalya
Tufts University, Bio-medical Engineering
GIL, Natalia
MIT Sloan Management School -Sloan Fellows Program
HALL, Sonia M.
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Postdoctoral Associate
HARIDAS, Prerana
MIT Sloan Fellow
JAKE-SCHOFFMAN, Danielle
UMass Medical School, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
KAMAT, Purva
Northeastern University, Computer Science
KRISTENSEN, Malene
COO, MBA MIT
KUCHIBHOTLA, Navya
Northeastern University, Computer Science
KUNDI, Roshni
Northeastern University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
LALLY, Anne
Recent Grad
LEE, Elaine
Boston University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
LEI, Jenny
Boston University, Mechanical Engineering PhD
MAURER, Jennifer
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Developmental Neurobiology, PhD
MISCH, Amanda
Boston University, Bioinformatics
OLAOPO, Myra
EMBA Candidate Sloan Fellow - MIT Sloan School of Management - Sloan Fellow
PATIL, Avanti
Northeastern University, Computer Science
PRIETO, Natalia
Tufts University, Engineering/Economics
THEODORIDOU, Sofia
Sloan Fellows Program, MIT
XU, Jenny
Computer Science/Comparative Media Studies, MIT

Flying Bridges Allies

ADAMS, Kimberly
Founder, Flying Bridges
BERLUSCI, Alison
Photographer
CHOW, Connie
Super Star PowerUP! Volunteer, Founder The Observatory
DONESCU, Victoria
All Girl Challenge Ambassador
TYRELL, Shereen
Super Star PowerUP! Volunteer, Executive Director - ‎Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council Education Foundation
PERRY, Veronica
Delegate Coordinator, Flying Bridges