Women Stepping Up will focus on Financial Security in a free online panel discussion at noon on Wednesday, March 30. This continues the celebration of the 100th anniversary (plus two years) of the ratification of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. In addition to celebrating the past, we look to the future and say, “It’s Your Turn.”
Our annual Women’s Equality Day Celebration luncheon has been rescheduled for August 25, 2022, after COVID concerns postponed it for two years. Our guest speaker, Astronaut Mae Jemison, has agreed to reschedule her appearance.
The online series, It’s Our Turn: Stepping Up Together, will be free and broadcast live on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/steppinguptoequality. A recording also will be available at the same place after the event.
The March 30 panel, Financial Security, will feature four Evansville wealth management planners. They include Teri Hollander Albin and Tricia Hollander Henning, both with Baird Financial Services Company, Melissa Khan with Edward Jones, and Kim Wren with Berger Wealth Services team Baird. Shelley Kirk, WEHT/WTVW anchor, will moderate.
This panel session, in collaboration with YWCA Evansville, will address financial security. Should a career woman consider a prenup? What is considered financial security? When are you most vulnerable? What are the obstacles to building wealth and security? Are there particular challenges women face in establishing financial security? If I am in a happy marriage, what should I know at a minimum about our finances,?
Teri Hollander Albin
Teri Hollander has counseled individuals and families, not-for-profits, and corporate clients since 1997. Drawing on her corporate as well as family business experience, Hollander provides clients with comprehensive wealth management advice and strategy. She joined Baird following a 10-year consulting and treasury management career.
Hollander received her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University Kelley School of Business and an MBA from the University of Evansville. She also studied at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is a Registered Investment Advisor Representative.
Hollander was honored in 2005 by the Diocese of Evansville and St. John the Baptist Catholic Parish with the Simon Brute Award for service. With her husband, Dave Albin, Hollander travels with their children, Lexi, Ian, and Alex. She completed the Chicago and Marine Corps marathons and still hopes to participate in the New York City marathon.
Tricia Hollander Henning
Tricia Hollander has counseled individuals and families, not-for-profits, and corporate clients since 1992. Drawing on the experience of being part of a family-run business, Hollander provides comprehensive wealth management advice to multi-generational clients. She received her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and joined Baird following a four-year career in regional sales with a Fortune 500 company. She studied at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is a Registered Investment Advisor Representative.
Hollander and her husband, Jeff Henning, have two children, Nicholas, and Nichole. She is involved in community organizations focusing on youth, education, and mental health. She enjoys travel, running marathons, hiking, and the outdoors, and hopes to complete all 2,000 miles of the Appalachian Trail. On weekends, Hollander can be found at her son’s farm, feeding the chickens and gathering eggs.
Melissa Khan
Melissa Khan is a financial advisor who began with Edward Jones in 2007 shortly after graduating from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She became a limited partner in the firm in 2015.
“Coming from a conservative Bangladeshi family, finances were not openly
discussed.” Khan said she didn’t realize exactly how little knowledge her scientist father had about finance until she asked him about his own retirement plan.
“He admitted that he was always overwhelmed, avoided the subject, and wished he had been approached by someone to help during his early savings years.”
Khan thinks of her father when she works with clients. “A focus on education is important.” She said it is an honor to get to know clients at such a personal time.
Khan is originally from Central Illinois. When she moved to the Evansville area in 2008, she met her husband, Zach, an Evansville native who also works in finance. They love cooking and travel so much they have a world map and a bucket list to work through.
Kim Wren
Kim Wren is a financial advisor with the Berger Wealth Services team Baird. She focuses on helping clients overcome their unique challenges.
A former music teacher, Wren remains active in the arts community in Evansville, performing with various groups and serving on her church’s worship team.
Shelley Kirk is an Eyewitness News anchor for WEHT/WTVW.
This is the first of four panel discussions planned in 2022. Additional discussions will be on May 18, September 21 and November 30.
Recordings of previous panel discussions are available on the Facebook Stepping Up page (https://www.facebook.com/steppinguptoequality). They include:
Engineering Opportunities in Science and Math, featuring electrical engineer and consultant Amy Barrett, Sherry Shen, Operations Excellence Manager for Kaiser Aluminum Warrick, structural engineer Theresa Davies and Talitha Washington, mathematics professor and inaugural director of the Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC) Data Science Initiative.
Owning the Workplace, featuring dentist Marjorie M. Cabell, Jo Ferrell, co-owner of Home Envy and Tresa Miller, owner of Grateful Threads.
SuperMom Tools, featuring Karese Johnson, Community Impact Officer at United Way of Southwestern Indiana, Aleisha Sheridan, CEO of 4C of Southern Indiana, DeVon Simon, assistant principal of Glenwood Leadership Academy, and Sloane Standley, Marketing Strategist for Midwest Communications.
Keeping Your Plates Spinning, featuring Dr. Anne Butsch, a family physician who focuses on integrative medicine, Kristi Cirignano, a functional wellness coach, and Helen Shymanski, wellness coordinator and yoga instructor.
After a two-year delay, the Women’s Equality Centennial Celebration, featuring Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, has been set for August 25. The luncheon was postponed due to COVID. Dr. Jemison is an engineer and physician who became the first African-American woman to be admitted into NASA’s astronaut training program and travel in space. Dr. Jemison served as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavour and orbited the earth for almost eight days in 1992. Dr. Jemison is now focused on encouraging young people to consider careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) to help solve the challenges of the future.
Tickets and sponsorships originally purchased for the luncheon, in 2020 and 2021, will be honored. Additional sponsorships and tickets will be available through links at SteppingUpEvv.com.
In addition to celebrationg the 19th Amendment, Women’s Equality Day luncheon acknowledges much more is needed for women to achieve equality in pay, representation and voice.
In addition to the luncheon, Stepping Up works to help women step up through training and allowing women to preserve and record their stories in a video project. The organization makes HerStory, an enactment of the history of women in the region, available for presentation in schools and organization meetings.