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(1) A Spotlight On Belizean Grove.
(2) This is the official website for Belizean Grove.

belizeangrove.org
(3) It is based in New York.

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(4) The headquarters is located at East 89th Street.

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(5) The company name is listed as Belizean Grove, LTD..

belizeangrove.org/contact/
(6) The complete address for the organisation is 17 East 89th Street, Suite 7D, New York City, NY, 10128.

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(7) This is the location on Google Maps.

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(8) The telephone number is 561 331 4402.

belizeangrove.org/contact/
(9) Another contact number available is 212 987 6070.

zoominfo.com/c/belizean-gro…
(10) The contact number 212 987 6070 actually connects to the company Partner Com.

merchantcircle.com/partner-com-ne…
(11) They have an official Facebook profile.

facebook.com/BelizeanGrove/
(12) Their e-mail address is listed as belizeangrove@gmail.com.

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(13) Susan Schiffer Stautberg is the creator and founder of Belizean Grove. She is the President of PartnerCom.

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(14) She worked with Edie Weiner to found the organisation.

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(15) Edie is currently the President and CEO of The Future Hunters, and an advisor to the Santa Fe Group.

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(16) Belizean Grove was founded during Super Bowl Weekend in 2001, by Stautberg and Weiner, alongside 25 other members.

belizeangrove.org/about/history/
(17) Another potential year given for its founding is 1999.

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(18) Belizean Grove was created as a direct contrast to the all-male Bohemian Grove.

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(19) Stautberg's office includes a photograph of the redwood forest, featuring a sign pointing to the entrance of Bohemian Grove.

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(20) Belizean Grove is intentionally designed to remain out of sight and out of mind.

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(21) When it was first being formed, Stautberg introduced Deborah Wince-Smith and Marion Blakey to the organisation.

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(22) Weiner, meanwhile, enlisted Marilyn Kawakami, Anne Klein and Debra Duneier.

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(23) In total, there were 27 women listed as part of the founding.

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(25) Colwell worked her way into a close partnership with both Stautberg and Weiner.

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(26) Christine J. Toretti is also one of the founding members of the Belizean Grove.

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(27) Toretti is part of the leadership for the Republican Party in Pennsylvania.

pagop.org/our-leadership/
(28) She is also on the Board of Directors for Maggie's List.

maggieslist.net/who-is-maggies…
(30) She is the President and Founder of both Living Home By Debra LLC and of EcoChi LLC.

livinghomebydebra.wordpress.com/about/

ecochi.com/debra-bio/
(31) Another founding member is Carolyn Chin.

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(32) The goal of Belizean Grove was to create a group of influential women to build long-term and mutually beneficial relationships.

belizeangrove.org/about/history/
(33) It has attracted women from many different walks of life, from federal and state government agencies, businesswomen, bankers, military officers, academics, musicians, authors, diplomats...

belizeangrove.org/about/history/
(34) There are approximately 115 members.

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(35) Members are added to the organisation through initiation by other, active members.

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(36) Applicants must also have four-to-six people who can attest to their intelligence, character, and sense of fun.

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(37) Members are known by their nickname, 'Grovers'.

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(38) New members of the organisation are shepherded through meetings with a Membership Committee.

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(39) They are then assigned a 'big sister' to help with introductions to other members of Belizean Grove.

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(40) Only one employee of any company can join the club to avoid competition.

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(41) This also includes a limit to the types of industry they come from, to prevent over-representation.

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(42) They also aim to have different faiths represented.

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(43) They also have different political backgrounds represented, as Stautberg is a Republican and Weiner is a Democrat.

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(44) This includes people who are members of the Tea Party, and people who are Communists.

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(45) They accept twenty new members per year.

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(46) It has a charter and a code of conduct.

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(47) There is specific jewellery that 'Grovers' wear to help recognise each other.

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(48) Four-day gatherings for members of Belizean Grove are hosted in January and February, usually during the Super Bowl Weekend.

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(49) Members meet in the United States, Belize and Central America.

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(50) Some of these meetings end with a reception at the United States embassy, with the host country's politicians and dignitaries.

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(51) The official motto of Belizean Grove is "No somos macho, pero somos muchas". This apparently translates to "We are not men, but we are many".

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(52) They host an annual auction to help sustain the Adventures For the Mind Foundation.

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(53) The Adventures For the Mind Foundation is an organisation which is ran by Belizean Grove.

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(54) Sometimes, Stautberg would use a bell to quiet down other members if she needed to grab their attention.

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(55) Connected to the organisation, Angela Moore has offered specialised Belizean Grove jewellery in 2016.

angelamoore.com/media/wysiwyg/…
(56) This is the official website for Angela Moore.

angelamoore.com
(57) Belizean Grove is also a client of Penelope Bell and her organisation, Penelope Bell Coaching.

penelopebellcoaching.com
(58) Now, as for actual members of the Belizean Grove...
(59) Judy B. Rosener is a member of Belizean Grove.

merage.uci.edu/~rosener/biogr…

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(60) Rosener is a professor at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, and the author of "America's Competitive Secret: Women Managers".

merage.uci.edu/research-facul…

amazon.co.uk/Americas-Compe…

linkedin.com/in/judy-b-rose…
(61) Meryl Marshall-Daniels is a member of Belizean Grove.

meryldan.com
(62) Marshall-Daniels is the founder of Two Oceans Consulting Group, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Women's International Study Center.

meryldan.com/about/

wisc-amh.org/people/board-o…

linkedin.com/in/meryl-marsh…
(63) Lyn Andrews was a member of Belizean Grove from 2000 to 2010.

linkedin.com/in/lynandrews/
(64) Andrews is now the founder of LA Advisors.

simmons.edu/~/media/Simmon…
(65) Barbara D. Colwell, as mentioned before, is on the board of directors or the advisory board for Belizean Grove.

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(66) Colwell also serves on the Board of Directors for Northern Technologies International Corporation (NTIC).

ir.ntic.com/directors.cfm
(67) Courtney Davies was a member of Belizean Grove, or at least worked at the organisation, between February 2008 to May 2008.

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(68) Linda Watt is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(69) Watt is a former employee of the United States Department of State (1976 - 2005), and has served as the United States Ambassador to Panama (2002 - 2005) and to the Dominican Republic (1997 - 1999).

encore.org/prize/jury/lin…

linkedin.com/in/linda-watt-…

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(70) Jenifer Lang is a member of Belizean Grove.

linkedin.com/in/jenifer-lan…
(71) Lang is a food journalist who has written cook books.

amazon.com/Jenifer-Lang-C…

nytimes.com/2009/08/31/nyr…
(72) Michelle Jordan is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(74) Catherine Allen is a member of Belizean Grove.

politico.com/story/2009/06/…
(75) Allen is a partner at Reboot Partners LLC; the Chairman and CEO of the Santa Fe Group; and a member of the board of trustees for the National Foundation For Credit Counseling.

rebootbreak.com/about/

santa-fe-group.com/staff/catherin…

nfcc.org/about-us/nfcc-…

linkedin.com/in/callen8/
(76) Mary Pearl is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(77) Pearl is the Dean of Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York (CUNY).

macaulay.cuny.edu/directory/dean…

linkedin.com/in/mary-c-pear…
(78) Amy McCombs is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(79) McCombs is a professor at the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.

journalism.missouri.edu/staff/amy-s-mc…
(80) Mari Carmen Aponte is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(81) Aponte was the Acting Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, resigning on January 20, 2017.

2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/1…

nytimes.com/2017/01/19/opi…
(82) Helena Ribe is a member of Belizean Grove.

newyorker.com/magazine/2010/…
(83) Ribe is a former employee at World Bank, and is now on the Board of Directors for the Women's International Study Center as a treasurer.

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(84) Elaine J. Eisenman is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(85) Elsa Noguerta, the first female Mayor of Barranquilla, may be a member of Belizean Grove. She served as Mayor from 2012 to 2015.

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(86) Theresa Behrendt may be a member of Belizean Grove.

amacombooks.org/downloads/pdf/…
(87) Marcia Wilson is a member of the Belizean Grove Advisory Board.

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(88) Wilson is the founder of Forme Enterprises, and was the owner of Daffy's before it went into liquidation.

linkedin.com/in/marcia-wils…

campaignmoney.com/political/cont…

crainsnewyork.com/article/201207…

nytimes.com/2011/03/30/bus…
(89) Rosy Del Dago is a member of Belizean Grove, having joined in 2010.

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(90) Marion C. Blakey is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(91) Blakey is the President and CEO of Rolls-Royce North America; she is also on the Board of Governors for the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA).

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(92) Blakey also served as the 9th Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.

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(93) Ann Kaplan is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(94) Kaplan is a former partner at Goldman Sachs, a current chair at Circle Wealth Management LLC, and on the Board of Overseers at Columbia Business School.

linkedin.com/in/ann-kaplan-…

circlewm.com/default.asp?P=…

www8.gsb.columbia.edu/about-us/board
(95) Kaplan may have also been a member of the Council On Foreign Relations.

cfr.org/sites/default/…
(97) Boenigk is the CEO of Neutral Posture.

linkedin.com/in/rebecca-boe…

neutralposture.com/_site/about.ph…
(98) Pernille Spiers-Lopez is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(99) Spiers-Lopez is on the board for Homeboy Industries; co-founder of Potential Unlimited LLC; corporate director of ECCO Shoes...
(100) ... corporate director of Meijir; corporate director of Coop Denmark; and a trustee of Save the Children US.

linkedin.com/in/pernille-sp…

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savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXM…
(101) Spiers-Lopez is also the founder of Good Life Designed.

goodlifedesigned.com
(102) Hollis Rafkin-Sax is a member of Belizean Grove.

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hollisrafkin-sax.com/about/
(104) Cathleen A. Asch was a member of Belizean Grove, as part of the Advisory Board.

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(105) Asch was married to Jan Christian Goss.

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(106) However, Asch passed away on July 31, 2017.

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(107) Maggie Wilderotter is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(108) Wilderotter is the former CEO of Frontier Communications and currently sits on the Board of Directors for Cadence Design Systems, Inc..

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(109) Theo Taft Schwabacher is on the Advisory Board for Belizean Grove.

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(111) Davia Temin is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(112) Temin is the President and CEO of Temin and Company.

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(113) Sylvia Sumter is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(114) Sumter is a Reverand and a Senior Minister at Unity of Washington, DC..

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(115) Ann E. Dunwoody is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(116) Gen. Dunwoody was the first female Four Star General in the United States Army. She retired in 2012.

chicagotribune.com/news/nationwor…

army.mil/article/85606/…

linkedin.com/in/ann-e-dunwo…
(117) Jacki Zehner is a member of Belizean Grove.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
(118) Zehner is a co-founder of Women Moving Millers, Zehner LLC and the Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation She is also a board member of the Sundance Institute.

linkedin.com/in/jacki-zehne…

womenmovingmillions.org/events-and-pro…

jackizehner.com/about/

sundance.org/about/us#board
(119) Maria Chrin is a member of Belizean Grove.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
(120) Chrin is the founder and managing partner at Circle Wealth Management LLC.

linkedin.com/in/maria-l-chr…

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(121) Annette Taddeo is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(122) Taddeo is the first Latina Democrat in the Florida State Senate, having been elected to the position on September 27, 2017.

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(123) Lurita Doan is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(124) Doan was the 18th Administrator of the United States General Services Administration.

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politico.com/blogs/politico…

nytimes.com/2008/05/02/opi…
(125) Melanie Sabelhaus is a member of Belizean Grove.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…

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(126) Sabelhaus is a senior prinicipal of Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners and the Vice Chair of the National American Red Cross.

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(127) Sabelhaus also served as the Deputy Administrator of the United States Small Business Administration.

cutimes.com/2005/05/18/sba…
(128) Theresia Gouw Ranzetta may be a member of Belizean Grove.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
(129) Ranzetta is a founding partner of Aspect Ventures, and former partner of Accel Partners.

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business.time.com/2012/07/20/the…
(130) Janet Riccio may be a member of Belizean Grove.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
(131) Riccio is the Executive Vice President of Omnicom Group, and the Dean of Omnicom University.

omnicomgroup.com/about/leadersh…

linkedin.com/in/janet-ricci…
(132) Karen White may be a member of Belizean Grove.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
(133) White is a member of the board of directors of Varo Money, Inc.; an advisor to 8 Partners; an advisor to Addepar; and an advisory board member for Credit Suisse.

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(134) Elisa Speranza is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(135) Speranza is the President of Seventh Ward Strategies LLC; senior advisor of Encourage Capital...
(136) ... an advisor on the Board O&M Committee for H2O Innovation; and an adjunct instructor for the University of Colorado Boulder.

linkedin.com/in/elisasperan…

seventhwardstrategies.com

convetit.com/@Elisa_Speranza

profiles.ucdenver.edu/display/4670628
(137) Kyung Yoon is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(138) Yoon is the CEO of Talent Age Associates.

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talentage.com/team/
(140) The aunt of Claire Congleton is a member of Belizean Grove.

clairecongleton.wordpress.com
(141) Christine Jacobs is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(142) Eileen Hoffman is a member of Belizean Grove, having joined in 2005.

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(143) Hoffman is an associate professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine, a fellow at the American College of Physicians and the founder of American College of Women's Health.

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(144) Hoffman has her own personal website.

dreileenhoffman.com
(145) Erin LeBlanc works as an attorney for Belizean Grove, having been an Executive Director from September 2015 to November 2016 when her position changed.

linkedin.com/in/erin-leblan…
(146) Kalpana Raina is a member of Belizean Grove.

Unfortunately, at the time of this spotlight, the website confirming this does not work.

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(147) Raina is on the Board of Directors for Yellow Media Group; the Board of Directors for Information Services Group; the Board of Directors for John Wiley and Sons...

linkedin.com/in/kalpana-rai…
(148) ... the Board of Directors for Words Without Borders; and a managing partner of 252 Solutions LLC.

marketwired.com/press-release/…

thelincolnianonline.com/2017/12/09/ins…

wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/art…

wiley.com//WileyCDA/Pres…
(149) Toddi Gutner is a member of Belizean Grove.

linkedin.com/in/toddigutner/

mcparlinpartners.com/Bio_Toddi.html
(150) Gutner is the Business Innovation Lead at Firmenich, and a lecturer / strategist at Cornell University.

linkedin.com/in/toddigutner/

tech.cornell.edu/people/toddi-g…

toddigutner.com/about-2-1/

womensforumny.org/index.cfm/memb…
(151) Cheryl Heller is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(152) Heller is the President of The Measured Lab; Chair on the MFA Design For Social Innovation; Senior Fellow of Babson Social Innovation Lab; and Partner at CommonWise.

linkedin.com/in/cherylhelle…

briteconference.com/speakers/chery…

dsi.sva.edu/faculty/cheryl…

babson.edu/Academics/cent…
(153) Dr. Elisa Stephens is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(154) Dr. Stephens is the President of the Academy of Art University, and is part of an incredibly wealthy family.

academyart.edu/about-us/our-l…

forbes.com/sites/katiasav…
(155) Dr. Samina Mahsud-Dornan is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(156) Dr. Mahsud-Dornan is a consultant sub-specialist in maternal fetal medicine at the Royal Maternity Hospital in Belfast. She is also the stepmother of Jamie Dornan.

finder.bupa.co.uk/Consultant/vie…

ulstertatler.com/2017/01/a-woma…
(157) Jennifer Cohen is a member of Belizean Grove.

linkedin.com/in/jencohen1/
(158) Cohen is a managing partner at The American Road; a managing director at POBA; the founder and managing partner at Songmasters; and a managing partner at The Music Coalition.

mi2n.com/print.php3?id=…

poba.org/about-us/board…

zoominfo.com/p/Jennifer-Coh…

themusiccoalition.com/about.html
(159) Elana Pianko-Ginsburg is a member of Belizean Grove.

thenewhollywood.org/members-2016.h…
(160) Pianko-Ginsburg is a part of the Thilkin, Pianko, Ginsburg Group within Morgan Stanley, and a board member at the National Women's History Museum.

linkedin.com/in/elanapianko/

fa.morganstanley.com/thepiankothilk…

nwhm.org/about-us/our-p…
(161) Penny Peters is a member of Belizean Grove.

amacombooks.org/downloads/pdf/…
(162) Amy Kaslow is a member of Belizean Grove.

amykaslow.com/about-1/

apps.carleton.edu/media_relation…
(163) Kaslow is a former senior fellow at the Council On Competitiveness, a trustee of Living Classrooms, and an advisor for ACT Foundation.

linkedin.com/in/amy-kaslow-…

conference-board.org/bio/index.cfm?…

livingclassrooms.org/aboutus.php
(164) Elizabeth Kersey was an Executive Director of both Belizean Grove and TARA from December 2007 to August 2011.

linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-k…

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(165) Nancye Green is a member of Belizean Grove, having joined in either 2002 or 2003.

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(166) Green is a founder of the consultancy Donovan / Green.

dgtwo.com/nancye-green/

linkedin.com/in/nancye-gree…
(167) Connie Duckworth is a member of Belizean Grove.

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(168) Duckworth is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ARZU STUDIO HOPE, and a former partner at Goldman Sachs.

linkedin.com/in/connie-kadr…

insidephilanthropy.com/wall-street-do…

arzustudiohope.org/team-arzu/
(169) Leslie Dube has been an Executive Director of Belizean Grove since November 2016.

linkedin.com/in/leslie-dube…
(170) Chelsea M. Reichert was an executive assistant to the CEO from October 2015 to October 2016.

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(171) Belizean Grove also has connections to Julie A. Hill, Elizabeth J. Comstock, Merit E. Janow, Brenda J. Gaines and Henrietta Holsman Fore.

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(172) There are members known to be executives and directors of Xerox, Procter & Gamble, NYSE Euronext, NASDAQ, Nordstrom, DSW, PetSmart and REI.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
(173) A Canadian Senator and the Chief Operating Officer of the Episcopal Church are also members.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
(174) Tiffany Dufu is a member of TARA.

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(175) Veronica M. Gray is associated with Belizean Grove.

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(176) Gray is a partner at Nossaman LLP, and a member of the Advisory Board at Integrity Wealth Management.

nossaman.com/vgray

integrityiwm.com/about-the-advi…

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(177) Once the Belizean Grove was formed with its initial 27 members, they travelled to Belize for their gathering.

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(178) The members instantly bonded with each other through mutual experiences.

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(179) In 2004, Belizean Grove formed Today's Already Rising Achievers (TARA).

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
(180) TARA is named after the great goddess Tara.

belizeangrove.org/about/history/
(181) In 2008, Sonia Sotomayor joined Belizean Grove.

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(182) She joined through an invitation she had received.

politico.com/story/2009/06/…
(183) She had been invited to join by Mari Carmen Aponte.

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(184) The same year, Belizean Grove held a retreat in Lima, Peru.

politico.com/story/2009/06/…
(185) Sotomayor and other members attended a reception at the American Embassy with the United States Ambassador to Peru, P. Michael McKinley, and several female members of the Peruvian cabinet.

politico.com/story/2009/06/…
(186) Helena Ribe was enlisted as Sotomayor's 'big sister' during the event.

newyorker.com/magazine/2010/…
(187) In June 2009, Sotomayor began her confirmation hearing to become a member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

news.muckety.com/2009/06/18/sot…
(188) As Belizean Grove only accepts female members, Republican Senators questioned Sotomayor about discrimination towards men.

news.muckety.com/2009/06/18/sot…
(189) On June 4, 2009, Sotomayor revealed Belizean Grove's existence as a women's organisation to the Senate Judiciary Committee in response to the questionnaire.

rbs0.com/sotomayor.pdf
(190) This concerned the Senate Judiciary Committee as federal judges are bound by a code that states they cannot join organisations which discriminate by race, sex, religion or nationality.

nbcnews.com/id/31390593/ns…
(191) On June 10, 2009, Sotomayor defended her Belizean Grove membership in a letter as a response to Senator Jeff Sessions, stating that men have participated in events but have never requested a membership.

rbs0.com/sotomayor.pdf

nbcnews.com/id/31390593/ns…
(192) Jennifer Rubin questioned this approach.

rbs0.com/sotomayor.pdf
(193) On June 19, 2009, Sotomayor resigned from Belizean Grove.

query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h…
(194) No member of Belizean Grove offered to make a comment on her resignation from the group.

edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/…
(195) A video was released on YouTube, purporting to be members of Belizean Grove meeting up. Whether this is actually true or not, I don't know.

(196) In 2010, Melanie Sabelhaus spoke at a Belizean Grove event.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
(197) In October 2010, Belizean Grove members attended "Lady Business" in New York, a party hosted by Alexa von Tobel and Alexa Hirschfeld.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
(198) In February 2011, Belizean Grove members met up with each other in Cartagena, Colombia.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
(199) It was around this time that members came up with the "White House Project" - a plan to elect America's first female President of the United States.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
(200) Catherine Allen also created a consulting business with three other members of Belizean Grove.

nytimes.com/2011/04/03/bus…
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