About Us
Advancing women’s health equity through
education, empowerment, amplification and connection
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Katie Hjelmstad Severt
Founder
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Chanda Smith Baker
Moderator and Strategic Advisor
Contact Us
Email: info@letstalkwomen.com
Phone: 612-819-7545
Women's health is paramount to the well-being of our communities and society as a whole. Let’s Talk Women operates a quarterly series, provides corporate events and is exploring the opportunity to host a women’s health innovation summit. All events are designed to bring people together to educate, inspire and connect those dedicated to elevating women’s health throughout her lifetime. We lead conversations and dialog with a health equity lens, recognizing that health disparities for women of color and indigenous women are particularly egregious and need to be recognized and discussed.
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Founder
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CEO Smith Baker
Chanda Smith Baker has spent her 25-plus year career at the intersection of philanthropy, business, government and community. An experienced CEO nationally renowned for her power and poise in leadership, Chanda has proven success leading complex organizations, recognizing and nurturing talent, and engaging and activating audiences toward racial equity and a broadened social impact. Smith Baker brings both her executive leadership experience in philanthropy and the credibility of a life and career spent advancing equity to Conversations with Chanda. Her interview style, rooted in her natural curiosity, love of reading and a deep knowledge of community issues, has struck a chord both locally and nationally.
Chanda is the Founder and CEO of Smith Baker, LLC, Co-Founder in Residence with The Black Collective Foundation, serves on The Board of Directors of several high impact organizations and a Co-Curator of Portraits of Us: A Book of Essays Centering Black Women Leading Philanthropy.