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Our luncheon is now at full capacity. Please contact Angela Quon-Chan at achan@sff.org or 415.733.8502 with questions. Event information for registered guests follows:

We are excited to bring together women leaders, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and more, from across the Bay Area to celebrate the achievements of women and girls at the:

Third Annual Women Changing the World Luncheon

Wednesday, March 6, 2013
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Julia Morgan Ballroom
465 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
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Host Committee

Katie Albright, executive director of San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center
Jamie Gardner, principal at JH Gardner Consulting and O-H Community Partners, Ltd.
Deborah Santana, author, founder and CEO of Do A Little, and vice chair board of trustees, Museum of the African Diaspora
Sarah Stein, president of Hall Capital Partners LLC, and board member, The San Francisco Foundation
Grace Won, partner at Farella Braun + Martel, and board member, Children Now

This year we are highlighting the incredible leadership of Bay Area women who are making our communities healthier and stronger by increasing access to healthy food. We’re delighted to welcome guest speakers Kirsten Saenz Tobey, cofounder and chief innovation officer of Revolution Foods, and Nikki Henderson, executive director of People’s Grocery.

This luncheon is open to The San Francisco Foundation’s donors, professional advisors, and their guests. Our luncheon is now at full capacity.

Please contact Angela Quon-Chan at achan@sff.org or 415.733.8502 with questions.

Inspirational Women in Print

We have invited our guests to share with us the title and author of a favorite cookbook or book, written by, or about a woman who has inspired them. We will have the collection of books that have been recommended by all of our attendees available at the event, for you to take home. The deadline to submit a book recommendation has now passed.
More about our speakers:

Kirsten Saenz Tobey, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Revolution Foods 

Kirsten founded Revolution Foods in 2006 with Kristin Groos Richmond, a former classmate at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Kirsten continues to drive the vision and product experience for the company, overseeing innovation, marketing, and human capital among other key aspects of the business. Kirsten’s work centers around developing innovative, attainable solutions aimed at providing access to healthy food and education to all current and future generations. Prior to founding Revolution Foods, Kirsten’s career spanned from leading experiential education programs in the US and Ecuador to evaluating the scalability of school feeding programs with the United Nations Hunger Task Force in Ghana. Kirsten is an Aspen Institute Environmental Fellow (Catto), Mentor for Women’s Initiative Fellowship Program through the George W. Bush Institute, member of the Culinary Institute of America’s Sustainable Business Council, member of the USF Presidential Commission for Health Professions, and with co-founder Kristin Groos Richmond is one of Time Magazine’s Education Activists of 2011 and Fortune’s 40 under 40 ones to watch. In 2010, NewSchools Venture Fund named Kirsten and Kristin Entrepreneurs of the Year. Kirsten holds an AB from Brown University and an MBA from UC Berkeley. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and two daughters.

Read a recent article about Revolution Foods in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Nikki Henderson, Executive Director, People’s Grocery

People’s Grocery is a nonprofit organization working to improve the health and economy of the West Oakland community through a local food system. While at People’s Grocery, Nikki has continued to raise the profile of an already successful organization, developing an innovate leadership development program for food entrepreneurs, integrating emotional intelligence and somatic healing work into racial justice programming, and developing new partnerships that doubled the financial impact of People’s Grocery’s initiatives. An experienced public speaker, Nikki also provides thought leadership on the history and future of the food movement in venues such as Bioneers, the Environmental Grantmakers Association Annual Conference, Slow Food International’s Terra Madre, and the United Nations. Nikki began her work in social justice through the foster care system in Southern California, developing her passion for youth leadership development through mentoring, tutoring, and directing Foster Youth Empowerment Workshops. She later shifted into sustainability, developing course curriculum for the University of California system and working closely with Van Jones and Phaedra Ellis Lamkins at Green for All. In 2010, Nikki was featured in ELLE Magazine as one of five Gold Awardees. She has a Master’s Degree in African American Studies from UCLA, and is originally from Los Angeles, CA.

Read a recent article about People’s Grocery in the San Francisco Chronicle.