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Renée Byrd-Lewis, President and CEO of Gwinnett Coalition

December 3, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Renée Byrd-Lewis, President and CEO of Gwinnett Coalition

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Renne Byrd-Lewis/Gwinnett Coalition

Renée Byrd-Lewis serves as the President and CEO of the Gwinnett Coalition, an organization dedicated to leading systems change to address Gwinnett County’s most complex social issues. Her nearly three decades of private and public sector experience fuels a diverse portfolio of capabilities in community development, social responsibility, and communications. Her previous roles include serving as the Vice President of Advancement and Strategic Communications at Georgia Gwinnett College; Director of Community Relations at Cisco Systems and Scientific Atlanta; and senior consultant for nonprofits seeking to increase organizational effectiveness. She is adept at transcending industry and functional boundaries, and leveraging an extensive network to achieve her desired outcomes.

Renee has been a Gwinnett County resident since 1995 and is an engaged leader with deep community knowledge. She currently serves as Board Chair of the Leadership Gwinnett Foundation, and is a Board member of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce and the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation. She earned a master’s degree from Georgia State University, with a dual bachelor’s degrees in psychology and sociology from Emory University, and she resides in Buford with her husband and two sons.

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Jessica Rantamaki, Business Development Specialist at Geo-Hydro Engineers

November 19, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Jessica Rantamaki, Business Development Specialist at Geo-Hydro Engineers

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Jessica Rantamaki/Geo-Hydro Engineers

Jessica Rantamaki serves as the Business Development Specialist for Geo-Hydro Engineers. She resides in Gwinnett County and is a 2020 graduate of Leadership Gwinnett. She is currently pursuing a degree in Public Administration at Georgia Gwinnett College and hopes to enroll in law school. She is active in several organizations including Associated Builders and Contractors of Georgia, CREW (Commercial Real Estate for Women), Urban Land Institute, and is a Chairman’s Club member with the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. She serves on numerous Boards of Directors including the Aurora Theatre, Water Tower Gwinnett, while also volunteering at Annandale Village.

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Angela Ammons, CEO of Clinch Memorial Hospital

November 12, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Angela Ammons, CEO of Clinch Memorial Hospital

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Angela Ammons/Clinch Memorial Hospital

Angela Ammons, RN, BSN is the CEO of Clinch Memorial Hospital in Homerville, GA. Located in Southeast Georgia, CMH is a 25-bed critical access hospital serving Homerville, Clinch County, and surrounding counties. Starting in late 2017, Ms. Ammons led a successful turnaround effort at CMH, which was close to shutting down. Working with outstanding female hospital executive mentors, Angela implemented a business strategy based on working with other South Georgia hospitals. CMH has also grown other revenues, successfully recruiting a physician from New York City to come to rural South Georgia and launching a Family Practice.

Angela was named “Hospital Leader of the Year” by HomeTown Health in 2018 and CMH was recognized by HomeTown Health as “Hospital of the Year” for 2019. In November 2020, she and her hospital were featured in a story in TIME Magazine. Angela was also a recent guest on the “HIT like a Girl” podcast where she shared some of the experiences that she has had as a rural hospital CEO.

Angela is proud of her origins as a nurse, having worked her way up to an opportunity to lead as a hospital CEO. Prior to joining CMH, Angela served as Nurse Director of the Behavioral Health Unit and Nurse Manager for the Medical/Surgical Unit at Memorial Satilla in Waycross, GA, and was a Critical Care RN at Southeast GA Health System in Brunswick, GA.

She obtained her Associates Degree in Nursing from Coastal College of Georgia in Brunswick, and her BSN through Western Governors University. She is pursuing her Masters in Nursing Leadership with Western Governors. Originally from Macon, Angela currently lives in South Georgia. In addition to her work at the hospital, she is the founder of a nonprofit organization that will build and sustain a free medical clinic in San Antonio, Intibuca Honduras and is passionate about mission work, and finding missions in your every day life.

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Lorri Christopher, Peachtree Corners City Council Member

November 5, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Lorri Christopher, Peachtree Corners City Council Member

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Lorri Christopher/Peachtree Corners City Council

A 34-year resident of Peachtree Corners, Lorri Christopher brings many years of leadership in business, education, and community service to her current role as a City Council Member.

Lorri was a principal in CAP Associates, a human resources consulting firm, and retired from Gwinnett Technical College in 2012 as a CIS Faculty Program & IA Director. She is an adjunct faculty member, and a Trustee of the Gwinnett Senior Leadership program. A former IT Project Manager for the 1996 Olympics, she managed, recruited, planned, trained, and coordinated technology volunteers and vendor education needs for Game venues.

Additional career stops include serving as COO of Atlanta Desktop, co-President of United Mortgage Company, and a Founding Director of Paces Bank & Trust.

Lorri is an alumnus of Leadership America, Leadership Atlanta, Senior Leadership Gwinnett; past President of The International Alliance and GEWN; former Chair of the Georgia Council on Vocational Education, the Employment & Training Council, and the Georgia 21 Commission. She is a recipient of the 21st Century Award from The International Alliance, Atlanta Business Chronicle’s DECA award, the Triumph Inspiration 21st Century Woman Award, and a member of the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers.

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Deirdra Cox, Founder & President of Community Sustainability Enterprise

October 29, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Deirdra Cox, Founder & President of Community Sustainability Enterprise

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Deirdra Cox/Community Sustainability Enterprise (CSE)

With over 36 years of community development and banking experience, Deirdra Cox, Founder and President of Community Sustainability Enterprise (CSE), leads the Georgia-based non-profit in their impactful regional community and economic development work. Deirdra has dedicated the past 14 years of her career focused on the development, implementation, and outcome management of innovative Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects that move the socioeconomic needle, through business development and community engagement, in urban and rural communities, while impacting the enterprise-wide bottom line, through strong community based strategic partnerships.

Deirdra’s uncanny knack to forge impactful cross collaborative partnerships that drive business and community development, has resulting in several large regional cross collaborative revenue producing partnerships that are impacting individual, family, small business, and corporate growth.

Deirdra is a well-respected pioneer in the banking industry’s CRA-Community Development landscape, and Corporate Social Responsibility arena. CSE has been named the 2021 recipient of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce D. Scott Hudgens Humanitarian of the Year Award, and she has been nominated for the Chamber’s Moxie Award two years in a row.

Celebrating Powerhouse Women is presented by

Laura Madajewski, Principal with HLB Gross Collins, P.C.

October 22, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Laura Madajewski, Principal with HLB Gross Collins, P.C.

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Laura Madajewski/HLB Gross Collins, P.C.

Laura is a Principal in the Audit and Advisory department with HLB Gross Collins, P.C., one of Atlanta’s most well-known certified public accounting and consulting firms. She joined HLB Gross Collins P.C. with 16 years of public accounting experience and has extensive experience in managing audits and in the preparation of financial statements.

Laura is committed to making the assurance process run smoothly for her clients and looks for ways to help clients improve controls, strengthen management, enhance governance roles and oversight and streamline operations. She works diligently to facilitate positive changes and growth for her clients’ operations. As a trusted advisor, she gets to know each client in order to provide a customized approach to their assurance and accounting needs.

Laura leads the firm’s Manufacturing, Distribution and Supply Chain Practice, as well as the Employee Benefit Practice. She also has extensive expertise serving nonprofit organizations including private schools, religious organizations, trade associations and foundations. She is a regular presenter and published author on various topics within her areas of specialization.

Celebrating Powerhouse Women is presented by

Michelle Kang, Vice President of Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta

October 15, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Michelle Kang, Vice President of Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Michelle Kang/Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta

Michelle Kang is a first generation Korean American. She immigrated to Georgia in 1992 and has since become a U.S. citizen by naturalization. Since obtaining her Master of Public Administration from the University of Georgia in 2009, she has been serving the Korean American community and business community in the region with her various positions in several organizations including:

Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce Board Member
Gwinnett County 2022 Citizen Budget Review Committee Member
Community Partner Advisory Committee for the Gwinnett Place Mall Redevelopment
Korean American Constituency Director of the Asian American Action Fund
Secretary-General of the Atlanta Korean American Committee Against Asian Hate
Chairwoman of Business Planning Committee of the Federation of Korean Associations (Southeast USA)
VP of External Affairs of Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta, GA

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Real Men Wear Pink of Atlanta

October 8, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Real Men Wear Pink of Atlanta

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Bill Floor, Jim Kozel, Todd Miller, Amanda Pearch, Jeff Steilen, Bruce Dunbar and Bruce Nelson

This special episode of “Gwinnett Business Radio” highlights the Real Men Wear Pink of Atlanta campaign to raise awareness and funds to support the American Cancer Society’s mission to save lives. #PINKOUT

Distinguished Guests (you can click on the honoree’s name to make a donation):
Bill Floor, RICOH (Co-Chair)
Bruce Nelson, Hytech (Co-Chair)
Michael Jones, RICOH
Todd Miller, RICOH
Bruce Dunbar, Connex
Jim Kozell, World Emblem
Jeff Steilen, UPS

Breast cancer affects everyone- women and men. But in Atlanta, there are a certain group of men (with a very particular set of skills) leading the charge in the fight! Through Real Men Wear Pink, these distinguished community leaders are determined to raise awareness and critical funds in support of the American Cancer Society’s mission to save more lives than ever before from breast cancer.

Now more than ever, as they take precautions to limit exposure to COVID-19, your support is needed. Cancer patients are among those at high risk of serious illness from an infection because their immune systems are often weakened by cancer and its treatments. In this new era, they are facing unique challenges every day, but their resolve to fight back against breast cancer is still unmatched!

The Power of Pink: Every dollar raised helps the American Cancer Society save lives from breast cancer through early detection and prevention, innovative breast cancer research, and patient support. Thanks to the passion of the Real Men Wear Pink honorees, they’re able to make a tremendous impact on the mission to end breast cancer.

Click Here to Donate to One of the Honorees

Kim Hartsock, Office Managing Member at Warren Averett CPAs and Advisors

June 18, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Kim Hartsock, Office Managing Member at Warren Averett CPAs and Advisors

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Kim Hartsock/Warren Averett CPAs and Advisors

Kim Hartsock, the Office Managing Member of the Atlanta office of Warren Averett CPAs and Advisors, is positioned as a leader, connector and strategist who offers a unique blend of strategic business advisory solutions. She leads clients’ strategic planning to higher levels of thinking and effectiveness. Kim saves clients’ time and costs by providing quality integrated, value-add solutions and cultivating valuable relationships focused on innovative goals and strategies. Kim resides in Gwinnett County with her husband and three children.