Past event highlights

If you missed any of FWSF’s women-in-finance events in San Francisco or the East Bay, click the links below for event highlights.

Our signature events include the FWSF Financial Woman of the Year luncheon and scholarship awards ceremony.

To get more involved, see our list of upcoming events.

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New Volunteer Opportunities: Help Empower the Next Generation of Women in Finance

Rock The Street Wall Street (RTSWS) empowers high school girls and university women by bringing the M in STEM to life through a focus on Financial & Investment fundamentals. FWSF and RTSWS have partnered through FWSF members volunteering to participate in RTSWS student mentorship opportunities.

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Mystery donor

Anne Chambers, a long-time FWSF board member, reached out to determine who the "mystery donor" has been to our scholarship fund.

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Impacts on Early Career Hiring: Trends in Education, Majors, and Graduation

As we consider early career hiring, and specifically first roles post-graduation, we need to think about the funnel of students and how some demographic changes and choices will affect the talent pool available. There are changes afoot, with a decrease in high school graduates, therefore university graduates, a decreasing population overall, and changes to popular majors being studied.

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State of Education in America: Update and Comparative Analysis

Over the decades, access and funding for education have been declining, along with educational outcomes; these secular trends only got worse after the COVID-19 pandemic. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data show declines in reading and math following COVID-19, with partial recovery in 2024. NAEP shows pandemic-era declines, with 2022 reading down ~3 points and math down 5 (grade 4) and 8 (grade 8) vs. 2019; 2024 saw reading decline further by ~2 points (grades 4 & 8) while grade 4 math ticked up ~2 points; grade 8 math flat. Recovery is uneven, and gaps widened most for lower-performing students. (NCES/NAGB).

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Member tip: Generative artificial intelligence in education: Opportunities and challenges

The rapid advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) presents both significant opportunities for enhancing educational experiences and important challenges related to maintaining academic integrity. As this technology reshapes how we learn and work, educational institutions must adapt to prepare students for an AI-driven future.

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Meet a member: Brie Ford

Brie Ford is a Wealth Advisor at Conquis Financial

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New Member Lunch – July 2025

A warm and inspiring gathering with our newest members of Financial Women of San Francisco!

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Key takeaways from The Fine Art of Small Talk

In July, the FWSF Book Club held a lively discussion of The Fine Art of Small Talk by Debra Fine.

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FWSF July financial reflection

July marks the peak of summer, Independence Day weekend, vacations, barbeque, beaches, and the mid-point of the year, which is a good time to take stock of our annual financial goals and expenditures. 

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Financial literacy education webinar with Amanda Ryba

Amanda Ryba is a national financial educator and speaker from @illuminate.your.wealth and is part of the advisory council of Global Financial Impact, where she leads a team of 60+ financial professionals across the United States.

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Meet a member: Delgermaa Batgaram

Delgermaa Batgaram is a Graduate Student at Golden Gate University, Master’s in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, FWSF Scholarship Recipient 2025

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Meet a member: Reema Mehta

Reema Mehta is a student at Golden Gate University

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Meet a Member: Margaret Topielski

Margaret Topielski is VP, Premier Relationship Manager - River City Bank

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Key takeaways from book club: Die with Zero

In June, the FWSF Book Club held a lively discussion of Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins.

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Member tip: Insurance coverage for business—unlocking coverage

Every business has or should have a portfolio of insurance policies to protect itself-from an employment liability policy to a third party liability policy to specialized policies. The problem is that insurance companies are not in the business of paying out on claims, rather they are in the business of collecting premiums and then making money off of those premiums-which can make things challenging for the policyholder.

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