Women Empowering Women Roundtable

Description

This luncheon roundtable will bring together businesswomen in a welcoming forum to network, learn, and engage in meaningful dialogue about the issues affecting them every day.  Each month will feature both a speaker to share about her life and business, as well as a topic for open discussion amongst the group.  Participants will have the opportunity to learn, discuss, network, and share ideas in an inclusive and collaborative space.  
Both members and not-yet-members of the Chamber are welcome at the Roundtable.

Your moderator, Rebecca Sanborn, is a training facilitator, and the founder and president of Sanborn Diversity Training Solutions, LLC.  In that role, she provides LGBTQ+ cultural competency training to businesses and nonprofits.  Prior to launching Sanborn Solutions, Rebecca practiced law for 17 years and welcomes your best lawyer jokes!  Rebecca is proud to have been born and raised in Derry, New Hampshire and has deep roots in the Greater Derry community, including service on the boards of several local nonprofits.
 
October 18th speakers:
AUTHOR REV. DR. DEBORAH ROOF is an enthusiastic life-long learner and a passionate teacher. She is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ with a Master of Divinity degree from Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School and a Doctor of Ministry in Preaching from the Chicago Theological Seminary, and is currently the Senior Pastor and Teacher at First Parish Congregational Church, UCC.
Pastor Deborah is fluent in French, holds a Master’s degree in French Literature, and taught French for over twenty years. Intrigued by ancient archetypal wisdom, Pastor Deborah studied and became a Certified Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator. Pastor Deborah and her wife, Liz, have four adult daughters, their daughters’ four spouses, and four grandchildren - and two on the way!

CHANDRA REBER joined the Center for Women and Enterprise (CWE) in 2018 and in February 2020 took over the role of Director of the New Hampshire Women’s Business Center. As she first became acquainted with CWE as a client herself, she is able to tap into the client perspective as she provides small business advising and drives quality programming for New Hampshire’s women entrepreneurs. Prior to joining CWE, she spent a decade in the mental health field as an expressive arts and trauma therapist with a focus on serving women and other underserved, underestimated communities. She understands deeply that entrepreneurs and small business owners are whole humans that wear many hats and have many life experiences that influence and impact their journey as entrepreneurs. Now, she is able to harness that expertise and help small business owners empower themselves to meet challenges with confidence, and connect them with the resources they need to meet their small business goals.