2023 Women's Equality Day Luncheon
From the Locker Room to the Boardroom

Channeling Your Inner athelete (even if you never played sports)

Lisa Kaplowitz

EVANSVILLE, IN – The co-founder and executive director of the Rutgers Center for Women in Business will speak at the 19th annual Women’s Equality Day on Thursday, August 24.

Lisa Kaplowitz will speak on “From the Locker Room to the Boardroom – Channeling Your Inner Athlete (Even if You Never played Sports)” at the luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. August 24 at the Old National Events Plaza.

Kaplowitz’s advocacy for gender equality began as a scholar-athlete at Brown University, when she was part of a landmark Title IX case that added more varsity athletic opportunities for women.

Kaplowitz also created a TEDx with her husband and sons titled  “Advancing Women in the Workplace, One Son at a Time.”  Ted X

YWCA Evansville hosts the luncheon with support from Stepping Up Evansville. Tickets (Friend for $75, Donor for $100, reserved table for eight for $750) are available from https://womensequalityday.swell.gives Sponsorships are also available.

Women’s Equality Day annually celebrates the 19th Amendment and women earning the right to vote. Evansville women as well as all Indiana women joined others in the nation at the polls in November of 1920. Please join us in commemorating the Women’s Suffrage Centennial at the Annual Women’s Equality luncheon, a program by YWCA Evansville with support from Women Stepping Up Evansville.

Kaplowitz has been an investment banker, a CFO, a stay-at-home mom and a finance professor at Rutgers Business School, the Rutgers Center for Women in Business (CWIB), whose mission is to remove barriers, build community and empower women.

 

Kaplowitz is the founder of Kaplowitz Advisory Group, LLC to support executives at all stages by using finance to help direct corporate strategy and decision making.  She leverages her 25 years of experience as an investment banker and CFO, during which, time she established a record of growing businesses and increasing profitability by creating focused strategies, reducing costs, and streamlining operations. She began her career as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank and Bank of America. She then transitioned to the company side, where she served as the Treasurer of Bed Bath & Beyond, and subsequently, as CFO of various private equity-backed start-ups. 

In 2020, she was honored as a “Woman on the Rise” by Paradigm for Parity.

Kaplowitz lives in New Jersey with her husband and two sons, and enjoys traveling, skiing and anything active.

 

 

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Stepping Up celebrates women in the Tri-State of every race, class and ethnic background who have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of our community in countless recorded and unrecorded ways. They worked, and continue to work, not only to secure their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity, but also in the abolitionist movement, the emancipation movement, the industrial labor movement, the civil rights movement, and others, especially the peace movement, which worked to create a more fair and just society for all. 

Despite these contributions, the role of local women in history has been consistently overlooked and undervalued. Women Stepping Up is resolved to join nationwide efforts to celebrate women and join national efforts and write women back into history.

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Stepping Up exists to encourage, support and offer training for women interested in running for office and serving on boards. Our goal is to increase participation by women in the public arena.

The non-partisan, non-profit effort celebrates TriState Women through:

  1. We volunteer and support the YWCA Evansville to host the annual Women’s Equality Day Luncheon each August
  2. Her Story performances which highlight the accomplishments of area women
  3. Video Project, which preserves the stories of area women in their own voices
  4. Training sessions so women can share their experiences with others who want to Step Up
Equality Day Luncheon

Each August the Women’s Equality Day Luncheon celebrates the passage of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote. Stepping Up supports the YWCA Evansville in hosting this luncheon.

Her Story

“Her Story: Evansville Women in the 20th Century” is a performance commemorating the accomplishments and impact of historic Evansville women from the 19th and 20th century.

Video Project

In an effort to preserve the stories of area women who are not always acknowledged in history, Stepping  Up has begun to video record the stories in the women’s own voices. 

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Area women who have lead universities, hospitals, non-profit organizations and have served in government are offered their time to share their experiences and offer advice about how to help you Step Up.

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