Ann Zuraw has 30 years of professional experience in financial planning, portfolio management, family businesses and stock analysis. She is a Certified Financial Planner, CFP®, Chartered Financial Analyst, CFA® and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, CDFA™.  She has a strong focus on working with women to help develop a holistic plan to best protect their financial futures as they transition through different stages of their lives. It has been her life goal to learn as much as possible about managing money and in turn, educate others to make positive choices.

Ann has an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Business and Speech Communication. Her M.B.A. is from the University of California at Berkeley, a degree she earned at night while managing investments for Bank of America Investment Management Company.

Ann was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina and New Orleans, Louisiana. Ann enjoys empowering women with the knowledge to take control of their finances. She is the creative force behind the blogs WomenMoneyandDivorce.com and ChicksChatandChange.com. She regularly speaks to women’s groups including the Junior League of Greensboro, Well Spring Retirement, Women’s Resource Center and on the radio. She served for 30 years on the board of a family owned real estate company before its sale in 2007.

Ann is a member of the Chartered Financial Analysts, CFA® North Carolina Society, the CFA® Institute, Financial Planning Association, FPA®, Women’s Professional Forum and Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts, IDFA™.

Ann’s current volunteer commitments include serving on the United Way Worldwide Leadership Council and board of Well Spring Retirement Community. Ann was awarded the 2015 Women in Business Award presented by the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce and Greensboro Partnership. She has been recognized by the Triad Business Journal as one of the top Women in Business and by the March of Dimes as the Honorary Chair of the Signature Chefs Auction. She was recently named one of the top 100 Most Social Financial Advisors by Bright Scope and can be followed on twitter @ AZanswers.

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There’s a new logo in town!

AAUW Greensboro proudly announces the formation of the AAUW Student Organization at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Officers are:

Catherine Iszard, President, cmiszard@uncg.edu

Molly Black, VP of Operations, mpblack@uncg.edu

Samaya Roary, VP of Advocacy and Outreach

Cristal Cruz, VP of Event Planning

Maggie Valentine, VP of Marketing

Queshona Harris, VP of Finance

Each campus organization is recognized by AAUW National with its own logo to use and display for recruiting members. The UNCG group will be recruiting members and encouraging high school women at the Find Your STEM conference on February 10th. We want high school students to look forward to becoming AAUW e-affiliates when they enter college in just a few years.

Pictured below are President Catherine Iszard and VP Finance Queshona Harris proudly revealing their official recognition documents from UNCG. We look forward to working with these highly motivated students to advance equity for women on the UNCG campus.

Board meetings are open to members

Meetings are held at the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro on Tuesday at 1:30

Contac Libby Haile to schedule presentations or to add items to the Board meeting minutes

February 5, 2018

Sendker, Jan-Philipp, “The Art of Hearing Heartbeats” (F) #

(Roddy Hurewitz, leader)

Board meetings are open to all AAUW members. Please contact Libby Haile in advance if you plan to attend. We also have a formalized process for guests to request opportunities to present to our Board for information, for sponsorship, and for advocacy.

Tuesday, January 16th at the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, 330 S Greene Street, 1:30 to 3:30 P.M.

AAUW Greensboro Branch, Friends, and Family

Meet at 9:45 at Congregational United Church of Christ, 400 W Radiance, Greensboro, NC.

Car pool to the Triad Women’s March in Winston Salem

RSVP to Laura Tew at AAUWGreensboro@gmail.com and identify whether you need a ride or would be available to be a driver.

WINSTON PARKING

BB&T Cherry St. Deck at 2^nd St. and Cherry

Cherry/Marshall Deck (by Stevens Ctr)

Holly Ave./Spruce St. Lot (by/beyond the Rhodes Arts Ctr. on Marshall St.)

http://www.cityofws.org/portals/0/pdf/transportation/forms-reports/parking/downtownparking_201301.pdf

We plan to exchange text message numbers, get there early, meet up, and organize our participation.

Annual Soup Luncheon: Warm Up the New Year with a Pot of Soup

Speaker: Mayor Protemp Yvonne Johnson

Congregational United Church of Christ (CUCC), 400 W. Radiance Drive, Greensboro

December Notes 2017

Mary Fran Schickedantz will lead a discussion of Lee Smith’s “DimeStore”

Dimestore A Writer’s Life

Lee Smith has firmly established herself as a preeminent voice of the South, and beyond, through her award winning and critically acclaimed fiction over the past forty-five years. Now, in her very first work of nonfiction, DIMESTORE: A WRITER’S LIFE (Publication Date: March 22, 2016; $24.95), Smith looks inward to tell her own heartwarming story, from growing up in the small coal-mining town of Grundy, Virginia to becoming a writer and raising her own family in North Carolina. Frances Mayes says, “We have Eudora Welty’s memoir, One Writer’s Beginning, and now we have Lee Smith’s brilliant DIMESTORE. These two great American writers have in common an immense gift for characterizations, a humorous sense of the absurd in daily life, and precise, evocative prose styles.”

Although her parents were raising her to leave Grundy, Smith loved every aspect of her hometown—set deep in the rugged Appalachian Mountains—from the Ben Franklin dimestore her father owned and ran for many years, to the music played down by the river bank, to ice tea and gossip on the front porch, to the drive-in theater where The Stanley Brothers played before the movie began. And while her education and travels took her far from Virginia, Smith’s appreciation of Appalachian culture never wavered. In telling the story of her enchanting childhood, revealing the mental illness that courses through her family tree, sharing her mother’s long-cherished recipes, and introducing readers to relatives, local characters, and people who changed her life, Smith portrays a time and place that most of us will never experience, a way of life that is fast disappearing.

“I always knew I wanted to set down some thoughts and reminiscences based around these themes – about place, memory, and writing – but this project got a real kick-start recently when the entire town of Grundy was demolished as part of a flood-control project,” explains Smith. “Only last August, the house I grew up in was bulldozed too.” In these fifteen charming essays, Smith has written a captivating memoir that brings her hometown back to life and depicts the birth of a major literary talent.

Told with great honesty, humor, and sensitivity, DIMESTORE is a moving personal portrait and a broader meditation on embracing one’s heritage that will resonate with Smith’s fans, anyone interested in writing, and anyone who enjoys good storytelling. Annie Dillard says, “Here is Lee Smith at her best. DIMESTORE is personal nonfiction, where her brilliance shines. Her wide warmth blesses everything funny about life and – here especially – everything moving and deep.” I hope you will agree and decide to prominently share this remarkable memoir with your audience.