Jabs Women Entrepreneurship Week 2022

Brandy Lawson is a catalyst for discovering and simplifying insights. She's been described as incredibly insightful, upbeat and completely authentic. She'd say she's a tech fan, ridiculous shoe lover, clarifier, and recovering know-it-all. Brandy leads FieryFX, a marketing operations agency helping marketing teams maximize their use of technology to scale. Check out her podcast Leverage Your Spark for snackable knowledge bombs for marketing leaders to achieve growth and keep their sanity.

Diana M. Hechavarria is an Associate Professor of Management at Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business. She teaches both strategy and entrepreneurship. Diana’s research expertise is in nascent entrepreneurship, and she uses feminist and management theories to unpack this phenomenon. Diana’s research interests include female entrepreneurship, minority entrepreneurship, cross-cultural entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and strategic entrepreneurship.  Her research has been published in journals such as Journal of Small Business Management, Small Business Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.

Diana has a Ph.D. in Business Administration from University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH, USA), a M.A. in Liberal Studies from Florida International University (Miami, FL, USA), and a B.A. in Sociology win a minor in Women’s Studies from University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA).

Anja Kunze is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Montana State University (MSU) and a leader in the field of Micro- and Nanosystems when it comes to applying these systems to the biology of brain cells. She has a Ph.D. in Microsystems and Microelectronics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technische Universität Dresden. At MSU, she built up and is heading the Kunze Neuroengineering Lab and obtained an NSF CAREER award for using nanomagnetic forces to modulate calcium signals in brain cells in 2019. A key toolbox from her lab is currently used as part of the spin-out called NanoMagnetic Solutions, Inc., which was founded in 2021. In her talk, Dr. Kunze will tell you more about the exciting science behind nanomagnetic forces and what needs to be aligned for bringing biotech from the bench to the market.

Katy Brandis earned her JD, magna cum laude, at Gonzaga University School of Law. While in law school, she was an editor for Gonzaga Law Review, teacher assistant for Civil Procedure, and a Thomas More Scholar. She started her legal career in Portland, Oregon, as a federal law clerk. Since then, she worked as a litigator, in wills/trusts, transactions, real estate, business law, as a Water Master, and City Court judge. She now teaches law-related courses at MSU. Katy enjoys outdoor activities with her spouse and pretends to parent her two amazing and independent kids. She also spends a lot of time with her incredible cattle dogs, Nelson and Mavis.

Dr. Anna Karin Olsson is an Associate Professor in Business Administration at School of Business, Economics and IT, University West in Sweden. Anna Karin has a doctoral degree in business administration from School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg in Sweden. She teaches courses and supervises students at all levels from bachelor’s to PhD. Recent publications cover issues such as industrial digitalization, university-society collaboration, industrial PhD education, work-integrated learning, women entrepreneurs, social media, place innovation, urban regeneration, and stakeholder collaboration.

Dr. Iréne Bernhard is an Assistant Professor in Informatics at School of Business, Economics and IT, University West, Sweden. Iréne holds a PhD in planning and decision analysis from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. During 2015-2020 she was deputy head of School of Business, Economics and IT, with special responsibility for research. Her research focuses on different aspects of the effects of digitalization and e-government as well as on work-integrated learning. Recent publications cover issues such as research on university-society collaboration, digitalization, social media, industrial PhD education, women entrepreneurs, local and regional development.