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Financial Women of San Francisco has been making news in business and financial circles for more than 60 years. Scan the articles below to see all the ways we advance the success of today’s women in finance throughout the Bay Area.
Bank Regulation In The Post-Financial Crisis World
A sell-out crowd of FWSF members joined a distinguished group of Federal Reserve Bank regulators on July 17, 2014 to learn more about the complex world of bank supervision from Director Summer Cole, followed by an invigorating tour of the Fed’s collection of rare currency led by FWSF member Marty Tunnell.
Read moreMember Profile: Emily Gasner, Executive Director, Working Solutions
Emily Gasner, who joined FWSF late in 2013, is the executive director and co-founder of Working Solutions, a San Francisco microfinance organization, where she manages a $5 million microloan fund. She has assisted hundreds of local microenterprises…
Read moreMember Profile: Joanne Ferris, Delagnes Mitchell Linder, LLP
Joanne, who immigrated from Ireland to the U.S. in 1998, is busy with two roles in her work day. She's a tax manager responsible for the training and mentoring of her firm's entry level staff, in addition to maintaining client relationships and maintaining their tax affairs,…
Read more2014 Scholarship Luncheon a Truly Special Event
If someone had told me two years ago that by clicking “submit” on a scholarship application I’d found online that I would later join a network of amazing and talented professional women and together, find the bay area’s best talent and recruit scholarship applicants, I would have waived my hand in disbelief. However, life has a funny way of surprising us...
Read moreMember Update: Victoria Beasley Internship at BCG
A quick update on me: I'm interning this summer for BCG in San Francisco (although I may be on a case elsewhere). The interview process for the position was competitive, and I'm sure it didn't hurt that BCG Partner Henning Streubel first "met" me during the Financial Woman of the Year celebration when he saw the Scholarship Recipient video.
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