I'm excite to be chair of this year's event. Join us for California Society of CPAs/CalCPA Education Foundation Elevate: #Women's #Leadership Forum 2023 on April 27-28, 2023 where you can see renowned Keynote Speaker and co-founder of the Malala Fund , Shiza Shahid . Shiza's session will focus on resilience and #empoweringwomen to use their unique backgrounds and perspectives to create and accomplish to their highest potential. Register here - https://lnkd.in/gUPmxMfv Shiza Shahid | Co-founder of Our Place and Co-founder & founding CEO of Malala Fund Shiza Shahid is an entrepreneur, investor, technologist and impact leader. She co-founded the Malala Fund with #nobelprize winner Malala Yousafzai and led the organization as founding CEO. She is now the co-founder of Our Place, a #missiondriven e-commerce #startup that is creating products and telling stories that celebrate cultural traditions and reinvest in communities, through the lens of food and home-cooking. Because home-cooking is where cultures are most authentically represented and love is most fully expressed Shiza invests in mission-driven technology startups and female and diverse #entrepreneurs through her fund NOW Ventures, which she founded in partnership with AngelList, the largest venture capital platform in the world. Shiza is a prominent speaker and story-teller, keynoting conferences around the world, sharing her personal story, and inspiring people to make an impact in their own unique ways. Shiza is renowned for her work, receiving many awards as a thought leader. She was named one of TIME’s “30 Under 30 People Changing the World,” Forbes “30 Under 30—Social Entrepreneurs” and a Tribeca Institute Disruptive Innovator.