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Online
Practitioner Workshop
Entrepreneur Training for
Immigrants: An ESL Approach
October 6, 2005, 10:00am - 11:30am PDT
Sponsored by 
Trainer
Biographies
Farhana comes from a family of self-made entrepreneurs of the South
Asian Diaspora. In 2000, she founded C.E.O. Women, the 3rd start-up
venture she has been involved with, after being inspired by the
enterprise revolution in her father’s native Bangladesh and by the
struggles that poor, single women in her own family faced to become
self-sufficient. Prior to founding C.E.O. Women, Farhana served
as an Americorps*/VISTA public service volunteer for a start-up,
grassroots micro-enterprise training program serving mainly low-income
artisans and craftswomen in San Francisco's North Bay. She also
worked several years in multi-media marketing and non-profit arts
administration focusing on business planning, program design and
fundraising.
Farhana is the author of "Micro-enterprise in Action", a self-initiated
audio documentary on the lives of women entrepreneurs from around
the world. She was a finalist for the 2002 Craigslist non-profit
venture forum and was a participant of The Social Enterprise Institute
(SEI) of The Women's Technology Cluster, for innovative social entrepreneurs
incorporating "double-bottom line" business models to create replicable,
long-term social impact. Farhana was recently recognized as one
of the “40 Under 40” up and coming business professionals to watch
by the East Bay Business Times. Her work has been featured in prominent
media outlets such as ABC News Now, The Chronicle of Philanthropy,
Tufts Alumni Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and The Oakland Tribune.
Farhana serves on the Board of Directors for the Chhandam Institute
of Kathak Arts in Boston and was a Community Fellow of the Full
Circle Fund, a San Francisco-based organization dedicated to addressing
public problems through engaged philanthropy and public policy advocacy.
Farhana holds a BA from Tufts University in Economics and Philosophy.
Email: farhana@ceowomen.org
Kate grew up in Berkeley and comes from a family of non-profit
activists. The daughter of two avid environmentalist parents, she
decided early on that she would need to find her own niche and positively
change her community. She believes that the key to change lies in
education. She has worked on numerous education initiatives that
encourage learning through service to the community. Kate is the
founder of several different projects and organizations including
an environmental studies course at Berkeley High School, a service-oriented
freshman-orientation program for college students, and a community
program promoting sustainable development at Oberlin College. After
graduating from Oberlin College with a degree in biology, Kate accepted
a fellowship to live and teach in Kunming, China. Through teaching
graduate students oral and written English at Yunnan University,
Kate developed friendships with many Chinese adults hoping to take
their skills to America and create a better life for themselves.
She became passionate about the value of adult education and ESL
training. From 2003-2004, Kate served as an Americorps/VISTA with
C.E.O. Women. During her year of service, she successfully built
C.E.O. Women's coaching and volunteer programs, spearheaded community
outreach and raised over $20,000 for the organization. She also
authored a labor market study report for the city of Oakland. Kate
is now the Program Director at C.E.O. Women where she is responsible
for managing C.E.O. Women's client outreach and training and technical
assistance programs.
Email: kate@ceowomen.org
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