by Windy Borman | Mar 19, 2021 | Mary Janes Blog, Meet the Puffragettes
Kaylene is a development finance specialist with over 25 years’ experience in both the private and public sectors in impact investing, access to finance, SME/Entrepreneurial financing, gender lens investing (GLI) and risk management. Over the course of her career, she...
by Windy Borman | Mar 2, 2021 | DVA Productions Blog, LinkedIn Posts, Media Productions Blog
I’ve been reflecting on allyship recently. For me, allyship is an active state, not a passive one, and it requires listening, learning, and re-learning. This year, Women’s History Month takes on new meaning for me as we have already seen several women make history in...
by Windy Borman | Feb 26, 2021 | Mary Janes Blog, Meet the Puffragettes
Jazmin Hupp was the bell of the cannabis ball when she co-founded Women Grow in 2014. Women Grow grew ‘like a weed’ to connect 75,000 women at events in 60 cities. She was named a “genius entrepreneur” by Fortune Magazine and Forbes considered her one of the “top...
by Windy Borman | Feb 17, 2021 | Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director
Lately I’ve been reflecting on allyship. For me it is an active state, not a passive one, and it requires constant vigilance, learning, and re-learning. This month I am reading “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by...
by Windy Borman | Feb 2, 2021 | DVA Productions Blog, LinkedIn Posts, Media Productions Blog
I spent the last several weeks preparing for the digital release of my latest documentary film. This is not my first foray into film distribution; but it is my first time releasing a film during a global pandemic, so one could say a few things have changed. For one,...