Zita Dube-Lockhart

Despite her young age, Zita has been a prominent member of the local business community for several years. She is an excellent strategic planner, providing businesses the tools, resources and coaching they need to design and implement strategic plans, and works with a variety of companies. She is also the driving force behind the Southwest Edmonton Farmers' Market. he is successful, professional, and determined to help others reach their goals. She is intelligent, and business-savvy. It is these qualities that draw people to her. The thought and intent she puts towards her actions not only in her professional life but her personal life is admirable. She is kindhearted, giving, and while she is one fierce and successful business woman, she is very careful to maintain balance with family life, being a loving wife and mother to her family, and a caring friend to those around her.

Chelsea Pratchett

Chelsea is the most active and engaged advocate and activist in Calgary on Public Policy Food Policy, Food Justice, Sustainability, Food Sovereignty, Social Justice & issues affecting our vulnerable population. She is tireless, compassionate and knowledgeable, an effective combination when dealing with deeply entrenched issues and beliefs towards public policy and social justice. She is involved with a plethora of local advocacy organizations on numerous issues. Her activist/advocacy CV is second to none in her category as a young female politico in Calgary. Chelsea provides daily examples to other women, many of whom are young and bereft of appropriate role models. Chelsea has helped to infuse the local community with a heightened awareness of a multitude of social justice issues. Chelsea shows respect and love for all life and people. She is ostensibly everywhere, almost ubiquitous when it comes to advocacy in Calgary.

Traci Traskowski

Traci is the owner of Redemption Boutique in Edmonton, AB., an alterntative fashion shop which offers edgy, stylish, and a unique clothing line, some of which Traci designs and makes herself. She is someone who refuses to be a portray a cookie-cutter image and stays true to herself by promoting the image she is selling by BEING the brand. She is a staunch supporter of other women in business and is always there to encourage and lead by example, especially in a clothing industry. She is ambitious, kind, professional, and a very involved in the arts community. She has made costumes for the Fringe Festival burlesque act, and helps promote various band/festival events. She helps promote the womens rollerderby, attends and sells merchandise at a lot of alternative type events such as concerts and nightlife events, all the while flourishing in the business world with grace and unapologetically being who she is.

Meaghan Dickert

Megan is sassy and unafraid, committed, passionate and not willing to compromise her standards to fill a preset mould. She embodies everything that FIERCE represents by living life fully by her own agenda. In a few short months, she has become known as the Queen of Pee and she wears her crown proudly on her fight against incontinence - an area that most women are screaming silently for help with. She fix crotches and wet pants. Meaghan wants to empower women in ALL that they do - not just in their pelvis! She believes the global idea is that you are never, EVER stuck in a situation: there is always something that you can do to fix it, whether it is physical, mental, emotional. Nothing in life is permanent before death. In my work, I teach women to become more flexible and adaptive with their bodies, but it my goal that they take that and apply it to the rest of their lives - that they learn about the ebb and flow of the world around them, instead of staying rigid and immobile.

Georgia Davies

At 23 , Georgia has shown that she has the determination and ambition to do whatever she sets her mind to. From coaching gymnastics to teaching in an inner city school, she exemplifies a compassion that is beyond her years.In her last year of her education degree at the U of A, she participated in the Global Citizenship Course. She headed off to Ghana to gain a perspective on the education system. Besides having severe culture shock, she was amazed at the positive outlook from the community in teaching the children. She initiated a fundraiser to bring a couple of the teachers she'd met back to Canada to reciprocate the experience she'd had. Georgia's humble nature earns her admiration from her friends who say she has an amazing way of paying a compliment without expecting one in return. She is beautiful but also sees the beauty within every person she meets.

Angela Dujong

Angela has always had a passion for fitness and in 2009 started Acacia Fitness - her personal training company that trains clients out of thier homes. She individualizes each and every plan and has been with some clients over 10 years! She asks for nothing in return and truly loves each and every client. She has trained triathletes, students and the fitness newbie as well as everything in between. She runs Acacia Fitness all on her own and always has time for her friends, and sets aside Sundays for her family. She is the person you meet who just embodies loving life. She is THAT person you want to be around. Angela has traveled across Canada and the US to keep up her education. She has even trained with Kelly Ripa.

Megan Oleskyn

Megan was chosen as the first-ever winner at the Future Agriculture Business Builders "Rock the Farm" conference's "Perfect Pitch" contest, on February 5, 2011. She then took her successful part-time business full-time, launching Southpaw Communications. Aside from her hectic entrepreneurial schedule, she volunteers with 4-H Alberta teaching workshops on presentations, communications, public speaking, cattle judging and grooming, and is the Vice-President of the Future Ag Business Builders and a part of the Canadian Young Farmers Forum, mentoring the finalists from this years Perfect Pitch competitionI. She is also presenting a workshop for them on media relations, best practices in internal, external and web communications and promoting your start-up business. She inspires young women to try careers that have traditionally been male dominated, or owned by large corporations. Also, she inspires women to make their own career, their own path and their own business, not to hold back when they have an idea and to promote themselves positively to broaden their scope.

Sheena Johnson

Sheena founded "Motherless Daughters of Central Alberta", as a direct result of losing her own mom when she was 15. She now mentors young girls in Central Alberta who are struggling with the loss of their mothers. She is devoted to helping young women cope with their loss in an already overwhelming, insecure time in their lives. She encourages these girls to focus on their futures, and make healthy, positive choices, as she knows better than anyone that life challenges can help build you into an even better person. Five years ago, Sheena opened up The Bra Lounge in Red Deer, AB. with her sister, and started a family of her own. She is now a mom, wife and considered a leader in her community for all of her hard work and dedication. Sheena is a great role model for these girls and has big plans for the future with Motherless Daughters.

Jessica Baudin-Griffin

As a self-made entrepreneur, Jessica has taken her non-competitive, non-judgemental nature and built the J'Adore Dance studio on those principles. Her studio has become a place where Fierce women of all backgrounds can come together and be united by a common love of dance, no matter what their skill level or fitness level. With Jessica, it's not about being the best dancer, or even a good dancer. She makes you believe that if you love to dance, then you are a dancer. A Fierce one. Jessica's fosters a non-competitive, non-judgemental environment in her studio. Women love J'Adore Dance because they don't have to worry about how they look or how good they dance. She inspires you to believe that you are a dancer, and an athlete, and a strong, confident, beautiful woman.

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