Jenna Walsh

Elevated Escapes

Jenna is passionate about supporting local entrepreneurs. Through her role as a Social Business Coordinator with Be Local YYC, she assists and supports community-focused entrepreneurs in Calgary. Outside of her role at Be Local, Jenna is the co-founder and president of the Girls of Tomorrow (GOT) Foundation, a charitable organization that empowers Ugandan girls through education and entrepreneurship. For the past seven years, Jenna has led GOT’s five key programs: scholarship, entrepreneurship, solar energy, menstrual health and permaculture. Jenna also believes strongly in the power of for-profit social enterprises. Her glamping company Travel Purposefully Inc (operating as Elevated Escapes) was created to increase eco-tourism and help empower female and Indigenous entrepreneurs.

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Other speakers & attendees

Randy Poon

Purpose and Performance Project

Chief Story Officer and Founder of the Purpose and Performance Project, a consulting and coaching collaborative that helps leaders and organizations align purpose with impact.

Barb Rallison

StartWork

Barb serves as the Associate Director at the Institute for Community Prosperity. Her work, both locally and nationally, focuses on applying economic approaches to advance community benefit and address complex social challenges.

Jenna Walsh

Elevated Escapes

Owner of Elevated Escapes, Social Business Coordinator with Be Local YYC, and Co-founder of GOT Foundation

Philip Lozano

Be Local YYC

Manager of Be Local YYC, with almost 10 years of experience working in social enterprise, with a focus on community and grassroot initiatives

Jeff Loomis

Momentum

Jeff works as the Executive Director of Momentum - a change-making organization that combines social and economic strategies to reduce poverty in Calgary. Momentum partners with people living on lower-incomes to get good jobs, create their own job through self-employment and save money to build their assets.