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Member Spotlight: Bethany Gardner-Grant

Member Spotlight: Bethany Gardner-Grant

Occupation? Financial Relationship Senior Consultant – Team Lead at Regions Bank College/University attended? Middle Tennessee State University Tell us a little about you...  Three words that motivate me: Positivity • Family • Leadership A native of Chattanooga,...

Director’s Report: You Gotta Fight…

After 10 long weeks, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for (well maybe just most of you). IT’S TIME FOR BACK TO SCHOOL!! No doubt, you have filled your days and poured loving care into every ounce of planning for the perfect summer for your kids and family. You...

Director’s Report: The ForHER Podcast

I'm sure most of you busy and successful women have numerous podcasts on your lists these days. It's easy to access anything from business advice to parenting hacks in the pod-verse. But how tuned in are you to local issues affecting you right here at home? How much...

Director’s Report: Lessons From Music

In my last article, I mentioned that I was headed to Riverbend for some much needed musical healing. It did not disappoint. We saw everything from Rock to Americana to the living legend Tanya Tucker. I was grounded.  Quite unexpectedly, while listening to Jason...

Director’s Report: A Hospital Called Riverbend

When I was growing up, we used to always refer to church as a “hospital for sinners”. If you were raised in the south, you, no doubt, have heard this metaphor used as well. Sitting in that pew, faced with the gravity of my unworthiness, I could rely on the fact that I...

Member Spotlight: Sheaba Chacko

Member Spotlight: Sheaba Chacko

Occupation? Entrepreneur: Leadership coach, consultant, and therapist. College/University attended? Lee University. Tell us a little about you...  Five words to describe Sheaba: visionary, reformer, leader, mediator, and lifelong student.   Sheaba was born in the...

Director’s Report: But We Aren’t Recovered Yet

Wow. It’s been a pretty crazy two weeks since my last Director’s Report. I won’t go into lengthy details but let’s just say the words of a friend of mine have been ringing in my ears ever since she spoke them a few days ago. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been...

Director’s Report: Restarting Your Year in Spring

Look around and take it all in…trees are blossoming and bursting with greenery, bees are buzzing around all the wildflowers, streams are full of winter runoff. In short, the promise of life and hope for growth is in full view everywhere you look. We’re a month into...

CWLI Featured on Local PBS Show

Barbara Marter talks to Kim Shumpert from Chattanooga Women's Leadership Institute (CWLI) and Brigette Thurman from Junior Achievement of Chattanooga about the important work they're doing on behalf of women and young people in our community.