A LGBTQ Partner Perspective
We're proud to welcome our Pride at Work speaker again, Christian Fuscarino, Executive Director of Garden State Equality; New Jersey's largest LGBTQ advocacy and education organization with over 150,000 members. Join us for this candid perspective and experience of being a LGBTQ partner and the fears that follow when your partner is on service.
Christian Fuscarino
Arushi GroverChristian Fuscarino has deep roots in New Jersey, growing up in Belmar and spending much of his youth in and around Asbury Park. Fuscarino has been an activist and organizer in the LGBTQ community for over a decade. He credits his positive experiences in Asbury Park as helping influence him to become an activist. In 2016, PolitickerNJ named Christian the 2nd most influential advocate in New Jersey politics and later that year The Observer listed him on the Power List 100.
At GLSEN, Christian worked with high school Gay Straight Alliances (GSA) for several years. In 2007, Christian joined the Pride Connections Center of New Jersey as a program developer serving gay inner-city youth. That same year, he won a student Emmy award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his End the Silence public service announcement. In 2008, Christian founded The Pride Network, a national leadership development non-profit.
In 2013, Christian joined Alan van Capelle, former Executive Director of Empire State Pride Agenda, by serving as his digital strategist at Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice. They focused on mobilizing Jews to advance social issues by speaking out against injustice and inequality. One of the organization's greatest accomplishments was a campaign that resulted in California Governor Jerry Brown signing The Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.
It Takes A Community with PowerToFly’s Community Coordinator Cepee Tabibian
Want to be part of PowerToFly's growing community? Tune in as PowerToFly's Partnership Coordinator Cepee Tabibian shares how you and your organization can join (for free!) our growing number of community partners such as Springboard, Flatiron School, and Conferences for Women.
Cepee will discuss how you can earn hiring bonuses of up to $1,000 for sharing open roles with your peers, promote open opportunities at companies that value DEI by integrating a PowerToFly' job board on your website or even host a talk at an upcoming summit!
Cepee Tabibian
Sanmaya MohantyCepee is PowerToFly's very own Partnership Coordinator and shares how you and your organization can join (for free!) our growing number of community partners such as ENTITY Academy, Springboard, Flatiron School, and Conferences for Women.
Born a citizen of the world, Cepee is Colombian and Iranian, and proudly considers herself a native Texan. She also the founder of She Hit Refresh, a community for women age 30+ who want to move abroad or travel long-term. She loves jumping feet first into the unknown and encouraging others to make their own leap in life.
Family Building for a Career-Oriented Military Spouse
We're excited to welcome Katy Bell Hendrickson and Ellen Gustafson, Co-Founders of Military Family Building Coalition (MFBC); a non-profit organization committed to supporting military families build the families they want. Join these changemakers as they educate us on the importance of family planning and how that can have a strong effect on our careers.
Katy Bell Hendrickson
Arushi GroverKaty Bell Hendrickson is a Military Spouse to a retired career Naval Special Warfare officer and mother of five children. She and her husband have experience with adoption, assisted reproduction and third party reproduction. Katy was the Reserve Flag Spouse Advisor for the Command Spouse Leadership School at NLEC in Naval Station Newport, Flag Spouse Advisor for CORE San Diego, and an Advisor to Naval Services FamilyLine in Washington DC. Katy has been active in the Warrior and Family Support Group at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado as a Senior Peer Mentor and has led multiple workshops on Family Building covering the topics of ART and Adoption. In her spare time, she is an architect by education and training - having spent the last decade working mainly in residential design and historic preservation. She is a former Board of Director for the Coronado Historical Association, Chairperson for the Heritage Committee, Chairwoman for the Coronado Historical Home Tour 2017-2019 and the recipient of the Cobb McCarty Preservation Award. Katy is currently on the Women's Committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts and lives in Washington DC with her husband, youngest son, and twin daughters.
Ellen Gustafson
Arushi GroverEllen Gustafson is a social entrepreneur, author, activist, and, most importantly, Mom and Military Spouse. She has done extensive work toward food system change (Authoring "", Co-Founding Food Tank: the food think tank, giving 4 four TEDx Talks on food system change and advising big food businesses like Barilla and start-ups like Food Stand). She is the Co-Founder of FEED and the FEED Foundation, an early give-back fashion brand that has helped provide over 100 million school meals to children around the world, has been the Co-Director of the Summit Institute since 2016, which applies creative solutions to the world's biggest challenges and has helped create diversity, inclusion, and anti-harassment programs at multiple conference companies. She is the and lives with them and her husband in "just seasonal enough" Virginia Beach, VA