Daphne Ortiz is a freelance publicist covering clients in film, TV, sports, lifestyle, fashion, beauty, healthcare, and non-profits. She began her career at a tech PR firm working at some of the industry’s top celebrity PR firms. Ortiz was a member of the publicity team for New Line Cinema film studio and worked on films such as The Notebook and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King that swept the 2003 Academy Awards. In 2007, she decided to pursue a freelance career enabling her to work alongside former colleagues and various companies. Ortiz commutes between Chicago and Los Angeles and has offices in both cities.
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Sruthi Swaminathan is a Chicago-based neuroscience Ph.D and home chef who currently works as a freelance marketing consultant and food writer. She creates original content for her food blog, Kitchening Around, where she specializes in cooking healthy recipes with unexpected flavor combinations. In her spare time, she enjoys playing with her boys Mowgli and Zain, huffing and puffing her way through pilates at the gym, and solo trips with just a carry-on. She has lived in 9 cities across 5 countries and traveled to 6 continents. Her food and travel writing has appeared in Vamonde, Talking Cranes, and Udantya magazine.
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Nadia Ali enjoys writing and consuming all types of media in the form of music, film, literature, and more. She is a recent Communications graduate from Simon Fraser University and ultimately, it was her love for learning that led her to work in the Copywriting and Content Strategy fields. She specifically has a passion for the technology and FemTech sectors because she wants to create accessible, empowering content for women to take control of their health and lives. She loves using the power of words and social media to tell a story and evoke emotion from the reader and hopes to continue growing her skills and passions in the future.
Vanessa de Waal is the founder and CEO of flöka. After going through a ten-year wellness journey, she realized she could have shaved years off the struggle had she been able to unlock the insight in the wellness data she already had. In a world with big gaps in women’s health research and where everybody is unique, she envisioned a future where personalized data science be made accessible to women everywhere. On a mission to de-silo and make the industry collaborative, she’s motivated by supporting the best possible health of flöka’s users. Vanessa read Psychology and International Relations (B.A.) at the University of British Columbia which she credits as foundational to her enthusiasm for systems thinking. Outside of the office, she enjoys skiing with her family, hiking, art and long walks in the woods.
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