Member Webinar: International Women’s Day 2023

Tandra Cheatham is the Head of Pricing for The Americas and Under Armour and the Co- Chair for the W.I.L.L. (Women Inspiring Leading and Living) Employee Resource Group. She is responsible for the initial pricing strategy in the US, CA, and LATAM. Tandra sets the promotional strategy in the Direct-to-Consumer Channel for UA across the US, CA and Mexico and that meet the company’s profit goals.
Tandra has been in the Retail Industry spanning 3 decades working for several high-profile brands in both Merchandising and Planning. She is a results-oriented, highly focused executive with a proven track record of leadership, effective communication and motivating teams.
Tandra is a proud Alumni of Hampton University and former Board Member and currently is an Advisor for RAISE Fashion.

Tara Grammy is an actress, writer, and producer with a uniquely global perspective. Bornin Iran, raised mostly in Toronto, with some time in Germany, and now living in Los Angeles, she has experienced life as an immigrant in many different forms. Since choosing to speak out against the authoritarian regime currently in power in Iran, Tara has not been able to return to her beloved homeland. She has used her artistic voice to create various projects related to the Iranian diaspora— her mission is to help the rest of the world become familiar with Iranian culture and to help Iranian immigrants feel seen. From her award-winning one-woman show Mahmoud, starring in the cult-classic romantic comedy A Simple Wedding, hosting the extremely popular Persia’s Got Talent, and her plethora of viral sketches on Youtube and Instagram, Tara has devoted her career to her love for her culture.
Recently, Tara has turned her attention to the protests in Iran and amplifying the voices of the voiceless within the country. She has dedicated her platform to bringing attention to the burgeoning woman-led revolution, educating and encouraging others to use their platforms to raise awareness for the human rights atrocities happening in Iran and the world. Tara is an engaging speaker whose talent lies in getting to the hearts of listeners on matters related to human rights, compassion, and the power we hold as members of a free society. She aims to wake people up to the incredible resources they have at the palm of their hands that can make a great impact in the world and to see the social responsibilities we have as one human race to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. She believes that compassion is the overlooked superpower of all human beings and that in an individualist society such as this one, we need to be reminded of the importance of exercising it often.

Penny Killow has had a career in IT, Business Resilience and Crisis Management. Currently she works as the Global Crisis and Business Continuity Manager for Moody’s Corporation since Feb 2016, based in the London Office but working flexibly from her home in Derbyshire.

In 2020 Penny ‘slept walked’ into her own Menopause missing the signs due to stress and the global oddness that was Covid, it almost resulted in her resigning from her rewarding position.

To ensure that others didn’t follow the same path Penny chose to build awareness and lead an initiative partnered with the Women’s Business Resource Group to introduce the concept of Menopause in the workplace within Moody’s.

2 years later Moody’s is now a UK Menopause Friendly Company – next step the rest of the company worldwide

Dr. Shyama Venkateswar is currently the Senior Director, Learning, at Seramount, where she heads up the development and design of tailored DEI curriculum and workshops based on client needs to tackle complex workplace culture and talent challenges.

In 2021, she was appointed to the NYC Commission on Gender Equity by the Mayor of New York. She has more than 20 years of experience in addressing social and policy issues, and has built her career in the higher-education and nonprofit space.

Most recently, Shyama served as director of the Public Policy Program at Roosevelt House and as a faculty member at Hunter College, City University of New York, a position that she held for eight years. There, she led the expansion and governance of the program, crafted new and innovative curriculum, taught the Capstone curriculum, and played an instrumental role in implementing initiatives for student and faculty development, with a focus on providing opportunities for first-generation learners, immigrants, undocumented and other underrepresented students through comprehensive mentoring programs.

Before arriving at Hunter College Public Policy Program, Shyama was director of Research and Programs at the National Council for Research on Women (now merged with the International Center for Research on Women). In this role, she helped provide the vision and strategic direction of the council’s policy agenda on economic security and women’s leadership, and received grants from foundations and corporate philanthropy. Shyama has also served as the founding director of Mercy Corps’ Action Center to End World Hunger, and as director of the Asian Social Issues Program at the Asia Society.

Shyama is a graduate of Smith College and received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in political science.