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The WIB Seattle Chapter
As the first chapter established on the West Coast of the USA, we are thrilled to expand the WIB organization and bring its resources to the greater Seattle metropolitan area. WIB Seattle Metro is an organization of professionals actively committed to promoting careers, leadership and entrepreneurship of women in the life sciences in Seattle, Bellevue, Bothell and the other cities located in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. We are dedicated to providing education, mentoring and professional development assistance to women and young women who are working in life sciences or in professions supportive of the life sciences, and young women and girls who are interested in science careers. Our membership consists of professionals at leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and device companies, non-profits, academic institutions, and support service companies, including law firms, consultants and financial service firms. To contact the Seattle Metro chapter, email Seattle@womeninbio.org. And be sure to join us on LinkedIn.
WIB Committee Leadership
Women In Bio committees support the professional and personal growth of WIB members and the organization as a whole.
WIB Seattle Metro Chapter Leadership, Board and Officers
Cynthia Adkins, Chapter Co-chair & President: Attorney and Managing Member, Adkins, Plant, Elvins & Black, PLLC, a life sciences and technology law firm
Adriana Alejandro-Osorio, PhD, Principal, Founder, Biosciences Consultant and Social Media Strategist, Alejandro Consulting Group, LLC
Dauphine Barone, Director, Program Management, Alder Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
Kristin Beaulieu, Chapter Treasurer: Vice President, Wells Fargo Insurance Services
Kathleen Cain, Chapter Vice President: Founder, Creative Director and Writer, Cain Creative, a communications and marketing firm
Julie M. Eastland, CFO and Vice President, Corporate Development, Oncothyreon Inc.
Cheryl Lubbert, Chapter Vice-Chair: President, HPG, LLC
Susan Morgensztern, Biomedical Marketing Consultant
Francesca Nolan, Chapter Co-chair & Corporate Secretary: Director, Corporate Communications, Acucela Inc.
WIB Seattle Metro Chapter Committees
Communications Committee
Chair: Francesca Nolan, Director, Corporate Communications, Acucela Inc.
Vice-Chair: Io Dolka, Business Development and Strategic Planning Consultant
Funding Committee
Chair: Susan Morgensztern, Biomedical Marketing Consultant
Vice Chair: Jennifer McCullar, PhD, Technology Manager, Center for Commercialization, University of Washington
Membership Committee
Chair: Cheryl Lubbert, President, HPG, LLC
Vice-Chair: Kristin Beaulieu, Vice President, Wells Fargo Insurance Services
Program (Events) Committee
Chair: Dauphine Barone, Director, Program Management, Alder Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
Vice-Chair: Christiana DelloRusso, Director, Commercialization, Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association (WBBA)
Young Women In Bio (YWIB)
Chair: Adriana Alejandro-Osorio, PhD, President, Alejandro Consulting Group, LLC
Vice-Chair: TBD
To contact any of the committees listed above, please email Seattle@womeninbio.org.
WIB-Seattle Past Events
WIB-Seattle Metro Chapter Hosted TEDxChange Event on Global Health & Development
More than 150 people attended an amazing TEDxChange event on global health and development, live-streamed from Berlin, Germany and hosted at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus in Seattle, on April 5, 2012.
Members of WIB-Seattle Metro were granted a special invitation to this event by the Gates Foundation, who supplied breakfast and refreshments and lots of support for our Chapter.
The speakers’ presentations included many calls to action about finding innovative ways to prevent disease by installing simple sanitation systems in Southeast Asia, building a greener and less hungry world by making renewable energy a reality, enlisting the help of young people in India to promote the vaccination of babies against polio, and encouraging women whose activism and achievements have been largely ignored to step forward and claim their role in changing, saving and improving the world. The forum closed with an impassioned speech by Melinda Gates about access to family planning for some of the world's poorest women in developing countries around the world.
We invite you check out the stories in “How Have Contraceptives Changed Your Life?", and then to share your story and encourage everyone you know to add their voices to those of Melinda Gates and others who are making the case that access to contraception and family planning is an issue that is not controversial, but absolutely essential to the health and economic welfare of everyone on the planet. If you missed the event, or would like to watch it again, the full video is embedded at the end of the Melinda Gates post.
On behalf of everyone who attended from WIB-Seattle Metro, we’d like to extend a BIG thank you to the Gates Foundation for opening its doors to us. It was an amazing and inspiring experience.
WIB-Seattle Metro Chapter Incorporates
Launched just last September, WIB-Seattle Metro has recently become incorporated! Since launch, the Chapter has attracted almost 100 new members, established a leadership committee, held several sold out events, and secured its first $10,000 donation. The Chapter is also gathering a growing body of new volunteers and has plans underway to augment the leadership team, to launch its 2012 marketing communications, membership drive and fundraising efforts, and to fill the calendar with exciting and new programming, including a Young Women In Bio inaugural event at the end of March.
Seattle Women Motivate during WIB/TEDxWomen Event
Written by Ruth Kunath
On December 11, 2011, members of WIB Seattle Metro hosted a TEDxSouthLakeUnionWomen event in collaboration with TEDxWomen, an all-day event that was streamed live from New York and Los Angeles to local gatherings in cities all over the world. The Seattle event was held in the JBL theatre at the Experience Music Project Museum. Devoted to presenting Ideas Worth Spreading, the event broadcast a dazzling roster of more than 35 speakers including Sharira Amin, the Egyptian journalist who reported from Tahir Square; filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, whose new film “Miss Representation” documents how the inaccurate and woefully biased presentations of women in the media are “killing our daughter’s ambition and destroying empathy and emotion in our sons;” Ivy Navarrette, a reformed L.A. gang member turned restaurateur; and Gloria Steinem, the original doyenne and advocate of women’s issues. The presentations sparked spirited conversations and renewed passion and commitments to making further inroads for women. Videos of the provocative and inspiring speakers are accessible here: http://tedxwomen.org/videos/. We would like to thank Seattle women, Ginny Ruffner, Lili Cheng, and Rose McAleese, for their gracious presence and live presentations:
• Lili Cheng, General Manager of FUSE Labs at Microsoft Research, gave us a glimpse into programs that enable children (yes, girls too!) to design and build creative software.
Discussion with Expert Series Recap
Live-Streamed Series with the Expert program with Dr. Marlene Haffner was thorough, informative and great that Seattle, Boston, Chicago and RTP chapters of WIB could share in the DC’s Chapter event being held at the J. Craig Venter Institute. Much learned about orphan drugs…the what, why, how and how the FDA actually can be very helpful. But the highlight of our Seattle event was we had our own local expert for the “after-party.” Dr. Nancy Boman (Senior VP of Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs of CTI) was kind enough to tell her about her experiences with orphan drug submissions and she fielded lots of interesting, varied and relevant questions from our both knowledgeable and knowledge-seeking attendees. People stayed after to talk, trade cards and keep the conversation going!
Successful Progressive Dinner Held at South Lake Union
On October 17th, the WIB Seattle Metro chapter experienced firsthand how the South Lake Union area has developed into a thriving neighborhood for life sciences and technology innovation. First stop was the Vulcan Discovery Center where WIB members and guests who were initially strangers quickly progressed to stimulating discussions on toxicology, global health, tips for meeting people at conferences and career strategies. The next stop for the progressive dinner was the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute. Guests were greeted with wine, food, and an incredible all-women panel of local biotech executives, and then on to dessert. A big thanks to Susan Morgensztern for thinking of and orchestrating this event, the sponsors, the panelists, Vulcan, Seattle Biomed, and everyone else who helped make this another tremendously successful WIB Seattle Metro event. For a full summary of the event, click here.
More than 200 Gather for Women In Bio-Seattle Metro Kick Off
We are very proud and thrilled with the 200+ person turnout for the WIB-Seattle Metro chapter's opening event, which was held on September 15, 2011. Xconomy.com's Luke Timmerman posted articles of this exciting event. Click here and here to view the articles. To view pictures and read a recap of the event, click here.
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