Our Origin

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Women in Business Leadership was founded during the Fall of 2019 by a driven executive board who hoped to add this organization to the University of Toledo as a way to engage, empower, and encourage future women business leaders.

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Thanks to the hard work of our founders and past and present executive boards, our organization has grown to include 60 members and is still improving!

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We would like to thank our founder, Katie Anderson, for having the dream of creating this organization, as well as Katie Lydon, Marissa Driver, Malika Assilamehoo, and DJ Assilamehoo for serving on our first executive board.