Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Tammy Ramos

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Tammy Ramos, Esq.

TAMMY RAMOS, J.D. is an Executive Consultant for Inclusion Inc. with over 20 years of experience in executive coaching in diversity, equity and inclusion, leadership development, career consulting, program design and workshop facilitation. She is especially adept at coaching through difficult situations and partnering with executives to develop resiliency and positive outcomes. She enjoys helping organizations to develop customized Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives and programs to create company cultures that value every individual for their uniqueness. Tammy is especially skilled at facilitating groups with people from diverse backgrounds, bringing them together to accomplish a shared mission for success. She approaches every training with the end in mind – a greater sense of appreciation for the individual, and the team as a whole to drive positive outcomes. She is trained in both the Inclusive Leader 360™ and the Global Inclusion Scorecard. She provides one on one coaching, group coaching, team building, conflict resolution and retreats to organization who desire to build strong, effective teams.

A world traveler, Tammy has visited over 15 countries and lived in both Mexico and England, speaks fluent Spanish and brings a wealth of knowledge about cross cultural skills, cultural humility, inclusion, and understanding the traditions and customs that define a culture. She loves to help organizations transform their corporate cultures to become places where all employees feel like they belong. These transformations happen when leaders commit to, and do the work to become inclusive leaders.

Tammy has successfully established herself across several industries with direct experience in corporate, law, academia, technology, faith-based organizations and nonprofits, healthcare systems, and consumer products. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Notre Dame Law School and her Bachelor of Science in Economics & Business Administration with a double major in Spanish from Saint Mary’s College of California.  She serves on the University of Notre Dame’s Board for the Sacramento Club as the Diversity Coordinator.

A first-generation Latina, Tammy has been an inspirational keynote speaker and facilitator at conferences and workshops. As the Executive Director of LatinaVIDA, a nonprofit organization with the mission to inspire the next generation of Latina executives, Tammy has grown the organization by expanding services to include a stellar coaching program with Latina coaches throughout the world.

In her free time, Tammy is an avid hiker who has hiked hundreds of miles of trails and climbed numerous mountains throughout Northern California. She uses these adventures to share real life stories of perseverance, determination, and an attitude that says, “Yes I can and yes I will!”

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Tammy Ramos

Connect with Tammy

Tammy Ramos, J.D.|Executive Director "Inspiring the Next Generation of Latina Executives"

Cell (707) 208-5446
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Wonder Woman in Business, Meldie Moore

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Meldie Moore, Esq.

Moore Law for Children

Meldie Moore, a former prosecutor in Orange County, California, uses her expertise in trial and negotiation to help grow and strengthen families. Moore Law for Children is a comprehensive care family law firm. Meldie lives with her husband and two sons in Laguna Beach, California.

Education and Honors

Meldie Moore graduated with honors from Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania. During her college years, she volunteered as a big sister and as a teacher’s aide at a preschool for special needs children. Meldie moved to California, where she graduated cum laude from Pepperdine University School of Law. During law school, Meldie worked as a judicial clerk for California Supreme Court Justice Armand Arabian and externed at the Los Angeles County Counsel’s Office, Division of Children’s Services. She served as an associate editor on Pepperdine’s law review and competed nationally on the moot court team. In 2009, Meldie furthered her legal education by obtaining a Masters in Law at Chapman University School of Law. She authored a legal article that was published in the California State Bar Journal in 2011. In 2013, Meldie published an article in the Orange County Lawyer Magazine entitled “Senate Bill 115 Would Give Sperm Donors Standing to Petition for Paternity.” [Read the Article] Meldie also published a 2019 article for OC Lawyer on Special Education, titled “Learning your ABCs, 123s, and IEPs: Special Education in Public Schools.”

Career and Service

Passion for public service, and a desire to help women and children, led Meldie to a career in the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. She was a prosecutor for 16 years. During that time, Meldie completed over 100 criminal trials and hundreds of preliminary hearings on felony cases. Meldie specialized in legal research and writing for a large portion of her career. She researched, wrote and argued over 250 felony motions, and she has argued before the Court of Appeal. She also developed and conducted training for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, various police agencies, colleges, and law schools. Meldie served as an adjunct professor at Western State School of Law, teaching classes on research and writing, and domestic violence. 

During the course of her career, Meldie was committed to protecting the citizens of Orange County, especially the most vulnerable, children. Her passion was helping families of domestic violence, and she was specially assigned to handle these cases at both the misdemeanor and felony level. For her outstanding service to victims and witnesses of domestic violence, Meldie was awarded the “Courts Community Service Award” by Victim Assistance Programs, CSP, Inc., and recognized for her hard work and dedication to the community by the Orange County Board of Supervisors. Meldie was also recognized as a “Diligent Prosecutor” for tenacity in the prosecution of DUI cases and sensitivity to the needs of DUI victims by MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving).

Law Partnership Dedicated to Children

This commitment to and compassion for helping women and children led Meldie to enter the law partnership of Gurwitz Moore in 2010, a boutique law firm assisting families with children with special needs, children experiencing discipline issues at school and in the criminal justice system, and family formation through adoption and assisted reproduction. In 2012, Meldie opened her own law practice, Moore Law. Meldie continues to grow her firm, practicing with her team at Moore Law for Children, Professional Corporation, in these specialized areas.

Practice Areas:

  • Adoption

  • Assisted Reproduction Technology

  • Estate Planning

  • Family law

  • Juvenile Delinquency

  • School Discipline

  • Special Education

  • Title IX Investigations

Education:

  • Chapman University School of Law, Orange, California, 2009 L.L.M.

  • Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California, 1994 J.D.

  • Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1990 B.A.

Professional Associations and Memberships:

  • California Association of Lawyers for Education (CALE), Co-Founder and Co-President

  • Orange County Bar Association (OCBA)

  • Orange County Women Lawyers Association (OCWLA)

  • California State Bar Association

  • American Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA)

  • Academy of California Adoption Lawyers (ACAL)

  • National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)

  • Past Employment Positions:

  • Gurwitz Moore, L.L.P., Partner, 2010-2012

  • Orange County District Attorney's Office, Deputy District Attorney, 1994-2010

  • Western State Law School, Adjunct Professor, 2002-2003

READ MORE ABOUT MELDIE:

“A SON’S PERSPECTIVE ON HIS MOM”

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Meldie Moore

Connect with Meldie

Meldie Moore

Founder and Director, Moore Law for Children

(949) 336-7711  

meldie@moorelawoc.com

.moorelawoc.com

361 Forest Ave., Suite 201, Laguna Beach, CA 92651


www.freemanmeansbusiness.com

www.freemanmeansbusiness.com


Wonder Woman in Business, Mary Kimber

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Mary Kimber

Mary Kimber is [a TOTALLY AWESOME HUMAN BEING — my insert] an entrepreneur and business owner, living and working in the mountains of southern Colorado. After working inside of law firms for nearly 40 years, she started her consulting company, Fort Kimber Partners, in 2014, providing marketing and business development strategies to lawyers and law firms. Mary also has a thriving art business, selling her watercolors and doing commissions via her web site, marykimber.com.

Growing up in Montana, Mary was surrounded by mountains, fields, wildlife and nature. One of five siblings in a boisterous, political family, her family encouraged self-expression and the family learned to speak up for and defend arguments over the day’s news at the family dinner table. Mary studied art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design for two years, and transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After graduation, like many artists, a lifestyle was difficult to maintain without an income! Mary was fortunate to find a second career that allowed some creativity, in a more traditional setting, and she became a Marketing Director for large law firms. After a long career in the legal industry, Mary recently returned to painting from her home in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Mary is married to Miles and they have two daughters and a granddaughter – the joys of their lives! They taught their children, from an early age, to love reading, fishing, skiing, swimming, hiking and camping. Most importantly, along with an appreciation of nature and all of its bounty, they taught them to engage in the arts via music, theater, writing or other pursuits. Even though their daughters are grown and living in other states, they enjoy the family home, “Fort Kimber” and visit as often as possible.

Living in the mountains above Colorado’s San Luis Valley has afforded Mary the opportunity to participate in community art shows, such as the Monte Vista Crane Festival, as well as public art projects, notably, the 2019 Swoop of the Cranes. Her cards are for sale at the Narrow Gauge Bookstore Cooperative, in Alamosa, Colorado, where she has twice exhibited her paintings as their artist of the month. Her art has been published in the Conejos Writer’s Circle books in 2018 and 2019, as well as the on-line art and writing blog, Monologging. Mary believes that painting is a constantly evolving endeavor. While she primarily work in watercolor, she also uses charcoal, pastels, pen and ink, and in recent years, has been involved in printmaking.

Check out Mary’s Artwork

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Mary Kimber

Connect with Mary

Mary C. Kimber, Principal

Fort Kimber Partners LLC

719.379.3802 - Direct

720.373.5067 - Mobile

www.fortkimberpartners.com


www.freemanmeansbusiness.com

www.freemanmeansbusiness.com


Wonder Woman in Business, Joleen Hughes

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Joleen Hughes

The Lawyer Who Rocks

Joleen Winther Hughes is the founder, principal, and fearless leader of HMLG. With experience that spans the technology, entertainment, and digital media world, Joleen created HMLG specifically to support entrepreneurs, innovators, and visionaries of all sizes who push the boundaries in business.

As a longtime entrepreneur herself, Joleen also understands the practicalities of starting and running a successful business. Over the years, Joleen has contributed her expertise and insight as a strategic advisor to companies navigating all aspects of their business from formation/structuring, operations, launch, fundraising, growth, strategic relationships and alliances, implementation of processes, and – her favorite – deal-making.

Joleen has been an important team member on her clients’ executive staff for nearly 2 decades in businesses ranging from gaming, product development, technology, consumer products and services, motion pictures, e-commerce, and everything in between.

Prior to owning and operating her firm, Joleen served as Senior Counsel to the media/technology company that invented streaming media and was one of the first lawyers who created the business and legal models which brought media to consumers via online and mobile platforms. 

As an entrepreneur, Joleen owned a successful artist management and production company during the height of the 90’s Seattle music explosion. She sold a successful Irish pub business co-owned with her husband. She also is an acting CEO for a worldwide stationery company and a best-selling romance author under her pen name.

Joleen regularly speaks at events and conferences on entrepreneurship, media, and business matters. You can hear her interview business badasses on her podcast The Lawyer Who Rocks.

Joleen’s also an avid supporter of the arts, serving as Vice President on the Seattle International Film Festival Board and as a Music Commissioner with the City of Seattle.

Joleen Hughes

Connect with Joleen:

Joleen Winther Hughes

HUGHES MEDIA LAW GROUP

Founder and Principal

3213 Harbor Avenue SW, Suite A2

Seattle, Washington 98126

www.hmlglaw.com

Office: 206-774-0879

Direct: 206-452-1553

Mobile:  206-794-6844

Fax: 206-260-9300

  

PODCAST: “The Lawyer Who Rocks”

Joleen chats with fellow entrepreneurs about what they do, how they do it, and what they’ve learned along the way. From founders of startups making waves in tech and media, to authors, musicians and VC’s – The Lawyer Who Rocks is amplifying their badassery to the world at large.

https://www.hmlglaw.com/blog/the-lawyer-who-rocks

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lawyer-who-rocks/id1449307652?mt=2



Wonder Woman in Business, Olivia Vizachero

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Olivia Vizachero, Esq.

Certified Life Coach

Olivia Vizachero, a former BigLaw litigator turned solo-practitioner, runs The Less Stressed Lawyer, a boutique life coaching practice for lawyers. As a Certified Life Coach, she works with lawyers were are over-worked, over-stressed, overwhelmed and over it. Through her coaching work, she teaches lawyers how to practice emotional management, improve time management, balance their workload and make themselves and their wellbeing their top priority so they can start living lives with less stress and far more fulfillment.

In addition to her one-on-one work with clients, Olivia hosts a variety of online events geared at helping as many attorneys as possible apply her coaching concepts themselves to transform their everyday lives. She currently hosts a monthly learning series, Less Stressed Sessions, where each month she focuses on one particular problem, like time management or people pleasing, and teaches attendees comprehensive strategies for solving it. Olivia also hosts a weekly Zoom meet-up for lawyers on Sunday evenings called Less Stressed Sundays, where lawyers come together to recount the previous week, specifically focusing on what worked and what didn’t, and then discuss what they’ll do differently in the coming week in order to remedy what didn’t work.

In June 2020, Olivia hosted the first THRIVE in FIVE Virtual Summit, a five-day virtual event designed to help attorneys leverage quarantimes by giving them the tools to develop personally and professionally. To do this, THRIVE in FIVE brought together over 30 experts over five days to discuss five topics: mindset, relationships, branding, legal innovation, and leadership, giving attendees an opportunity to understand what’s not working in every area of their lives and develop a comprehensive plan to fix it.

Most recently, Olivia co-authored a pandemic anthology titled #Networked with 19 other women lawyers. #Networked, which hit #1 on Amazon’s New Release charts, tells the story of how these 20 women came together in March 2020 an overcame the confines of COVID-19 social distancing to create connections, cultivate community, and build businesses in the midst of a global pandemic. 

Before launching her coaching practice Ms. Vizachero worked as a complex commercial litigation associate at Michigan’s largest AmLaw 200 firm and as a criminal defense attorney at the boutique criminal defense firm where she previously worked as a full-time clerk while she attended Wayne State University Law School as an evening student. 

Still having a passion for criminal justice, Ms. Vizachero continues to practice law on a limited basis, putting her needle-in-the-haystack research skills to good use by taking on select criminal defense matters in Detroit.

Olivia Vizachero

Connect with Olivia — it will change your life!


LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/oliviavizachero

Website: thelessstressedlawyer.com

Less Stressed Sessions — A Monthly Virtual Learning Series: lessstressedsessions.com/signup

 

Olivia Vizachero

Certified Life Coach

The Less Stressed Lawyer

thelessstressedlawyer.com



Wonder Woman in Business, Sarah Feingold

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Sarah Feingold

About Sarah:

Sarah Feingold is a co-founder of The Fourth Floor, a next-level community democratizing womxn's access to board seats and investments to drive systemic change. Previously, she was the General Counsel and first lawyer at Etsy and Vroom. She is a creator and producer of Legal Madness, an NYU Law School Engelberg Center fellow, a board member, an investor, and a speaker. You can also find Sarah hammering silver, eating candy, and chasing her child.

Sarah’s passion project:

Legal Madness: Legal Madness (www.legalmadness.party). Lawyers inside tech companies have powerful, hilarious and maddening stories, but confidentiality obligations have kept them silent. Until now. In collaboration with NYU Law School, I collected secret stories from attorneys, turned their tales into monologues, and hired actors to perform them on stage.  Our first (and only) live production was a sold out, hilarious, success.  The tech and legal communities showed up!  I have spent the pandemic scaling the production and talking with TV and theater insiders.  I’d love any connections! Let’s bring the madness. 

Sarah Feingold

Learn more about Sarah

Sarahfeingold.com

legalmadness.party

linkedin.com/in/sarahfeingold