Impact Leader Series: CEO, Wiggle Room & CEO, Violet
Blue Ridge Labs’ Impact Leader Talks is a series of engaging interviews and panels with leaders across New York City on the edge of technology and innovation. From tech to finance, non-profit to childcare, to mutual aid, we’re sitting down with the people making real change in New York City.
June 6/29/23: This week, we’re speaking with 2 of BRL’s own Alumni Startup Founders to talk about their journeys and the obstacles they’ve overcome to make their organizations a success.
Jaime-Jin Lewis believes childcare shouldn’t be a sink-or-swim issue for working parents. This belief led her to find Wiggle Room. In 2020, she built #WorkersNeedChildcare, a childcare hotline for essential workers in New York City, as well as #CareTogetherNYC, a mutual aid project that moved $153,000 to essential workers to support urgent childcare needs.
Jaime-Jin is a Roddenberry Foundation Fellow, David Prize winner, #Care100 Most Influential Person in Care, and alumna of Blue Ridge Labs. Previously, Jaime-Jin served as the Executive Director of The Center for Racial Justice in Education, Director of Development at Caring Across Generations, and Strategist at Purpose. Jaime-Jin was raised in Charlottesville, VA by an early childhood educator and has lived in Brooklyn, NY for over a decade.
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Gaurang is the Founder & CEO of Violet — a platform dedicated to helping the healthcare industry connect underserved communities to culturally competent care, by building a new standard for identifying cultural competencies within providers. Violet’s proprietary system for benchmarking cultural competence uses a variety of disparate data about each partner provider (e.g. training history, professional experiences, identities, etc.) to identify and showcase culturally competent providers. Prior to building Violet, Gaurang spent ~4 years building insurance and technical products at Oscar Health, a health insurance startup built from the ground up. He is also queer and an immigrant, with a passion for making healthcare more inclusive for the Medicaid population.
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Location: 150 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States
Time: 5:30-7:30
Free!
