It's a World of Opportunities Empowering Women Together (Roosevelt)
Name:
It's a World of Opportunities Empowering Women Together (Roosevelt)
Date:
April 13, 2022
Time:
8:30 AM - 2:00 PM MDT
Website:
Women's Business Center of Utah
Registration:
Sorry, public registration for this event has closed.
Event Description:
ONLNE REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
Join us for the Duchesne County Area Chamber of Commerce Women’s Business Conference on Wednesday, April 13th from 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Crossroads Senior and Community Center for a day of inspiration, celebration, learning, networking and a luncheon!
Keynote speaker, KUTV news anchor Mary Nickles, will share a message of the power of communication. A guest speaker, presenter and panel discussion will give you the building blocks and new ideas on how to make your business and career progress and flourish.
This event is sponsored by Duchesne County Area Chamber of Commerce, Roosevelt Business Alliance, UBTech/Custom Fit, Uintah Basin Standard, and the Women’s Business Center of Utah.
Event Agenda:
8:30 am: Check-in starts
9:00 am: Welcome
9:15 - 9:45: Morning Speaker: Pamela Juliano, Directory of RGPC Government Affairs
9:45 - 10:00: Ann Marie Wallace - Women's Business Center of Utah
10:00 - 10:15: Break
10:15 - 11:15: Ryan Murray - Marketing Advertising and Employee Struggles
11:15 - 11:45: Lunch and break
11:45 - 12:30: Keynote Speaker - Mary Nickles, New Anchor for 2 KUTV
12:30 - 1:15: Panel - Patty Allred, Tammy Kelly, Amber Jenkins, Tonia Steffy, Tracey Newsome, and Yvonne Gardner
1:15 - 1:30: Efi Neofitos - KIVA Microloan & WBCUtah
1:30 - 2:00: Closing Remarks
About the Keynote Speaker: Mary Nickles, News Anchor 2 KUTV
Mary joined KUTV 2 News in 1991 as weekend anchor and reporter. She currently co-anchors the news weekdays on 2NEWS This Morning from 5:00 a.m. - 8 a.m. and 2NEWS at Noon. (She loves the schedule even though she has to wake up at 2:30 a.m.) Mary is also KUTV'S Check Your Health spokesperson, hosts the Workouts on the Web, writes two health blogs, and does in-depth reporting for the stationwinning an Emmy for Best News Series in 2012. That series started with Mary getting a mammogram to encourage more women to get screened, and it found an invasive, malignant tumor. The following stories tracked Marys surgery, chemo treatments, wig shopping, radiation, and long recovery. Learn more at Maryscancerstory@blogspot.com
Mary grew up in Renton, Washington with her eight brothers and sisters. Her dad is a retired telephone man, and her late mother was a state legislator and advocate for children. Mary majored in English at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, where she attended on a volleyball scholarship. Before coming to Utah, she worked in Yakima, Washington, where she did camera work, editing, producing, reporting, and anchoring.
Mary is very active in our community as a mentor for young people and as an advocate for health. She is Chair of the Advisory Board for Head Start, and is on the Board for the Intermountain Catholic Newspaper and for the Police Athletic League. She donates home-cooked meals and many hours to help other charities, including The Ronald McDonald House, Guadalupe Schools, Life After Breast Cancer, The Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the Heart Walk. Mary participated in the Utah Summer Games for years, and was inducted into the Hall of Honor in 2003. She also played professional volleyball for the Utah Predators.
Mary and her husband, Kent, live in the Salt Lake Area and are the parents, tutors, coaches, and taxi drivers of twins, Zachary and MacKenzie... born in February of 1997.
Morning Keynote Speaker: Pamela Juliano
As Government Affairs Director Ms. Juliano brings twenty years of government relations experience to the position. She is responsible for maintaining government and tribal relations, legislative policy engagement and strategic communications. Prior to joining RGPC she managed other short line railroad government affairs portfolios and policy engagement for energy sector projects, tribal relations and rural development associations. She served for nearly a decade as a U.S. House of Representatives congressional staffer and prior to that as a program director for AmeriCorps VISTA. She studied political science at College of Eastern Utah/USU Eastern.
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