2023 Women's Equality Day
From the Locker Room to the Boardroom
Channeling Your Inner Athlete (Even if You Never Played Sports)
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.
What: Women’s Equality Day Evansville Luncheon
When: 11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m. Thursday, August 24, 2023
Tickets: Available: https://womensequalityday.swell.gives
Contact: Erika Taylor etaylor@ywcaevansville.org
Kaplowitz also created a TEDx with her husband and sons titled “Advancing Women in the Workplace, One Son at a Time.” Ted X
The luncheon is coordinated by the YWCA Evansville 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.
• Stepping Up Evansville awards will be bestowed on three women at the luncheon.
§ The Unsung Hero Award recognizes an individual for tireless service.
§ The Inspirational Leadership Award recognizes an individual for being a change agent.
§ The Legacy Award posthumously recognizes a woman who has had an impact on the history of the Tri-State.
