r(E)volutionary Woman

Beth Santos is an author, storyteller, and keynote speaker on a mission to better connect and support women travelers and share the stories of diverse women worldwide.
With a background in international development, thoughtful community building, and social enterprise, Beth Santos is out to change the landscape of travel for women worldwide.
In 2009, while cruising her blue motorcycle through the streets of São Tomé and Príncipe, Beth created the first iteration of Wanderful as a travel blog aimed to explore the diverse and shared experiences of women traveling the world. Today, Wanderful has exploded to an international community and social network with the active participation of over 40,000 women and gender-diverse people of all ages and backgrounds. This is manifested through an active membership community, chapter events in over 50 global cities worldwide, and annual community events and trips.
Beth is the author of Wander Woman: How to Reclaim Your Space, Find Your Voice, and Travel the World, Solo, published in March 2024. The book helps women to uncover the confidence they need to see the world for themselves, by themselves.
In 2022, she launched the 85 Percent Podcast, which interviews accomplished women in travel and tourism and tells their stories of success — and their advice for a more inclusive travel industry.
Beth is in the process of filming episodes of World Herstory, a travel docuseries highlighting food, culture, and history through the eyes of women around the world.
In 2014, Beth created the WITS Travel Creator Summit, the leading event for women and gender diverse travel creators, entrepreneurs, and industry to use their voices to champion change in the travel industry, now hosted annually on two continents.
In 2022, Wanderful launched Wanderfest, the first major outdoor travel festival by and for women, hailed by Fodor’s Travel as the new festival to add to your radar.
Beth’s commitment to community building also reaches her local neighborhood of Jamaica Plain in Boston, where she and her husband are the owners of Ula Cafe, a social-justice-minded cafe, bakery, and lunchtime meeting spot.
Beth has been recognized in Business Insider as one of 17 changemakers transforming the hospitality industry, in Conde Nast Traveller as one of 12 inspiring people to follow for International Women’s Day,
She was a finalist for Travel Unity’s Applied DEI Award and a finalist for Women in Travel CIC’s IWTTF award in the female leader-entrepreneur category in 2024.
In 2023, Beth was recognized by the International Hospitality Institute as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Global Hospitality and Travel, alongside leaders like Airbnb’s Brian Cheskey, Skift’s Rafat Ali, and PBS’s Samantha Brown.
She has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA from Wellesley College. When she’s not traveling the world, she’s relishing in home renovation projects and exploring her home city of Boston with her family.

To learn more about Beth Santos:
Website: https://bethsantos.com/
https://sheswanderful.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/maximumbeth/?hl=en
IG: https://www.instagram.com/sheswanderful/?hl=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/santosbeth/

Ida Tin is the Danish visionary co-founder and former CEO of Clue, the most trusted menstrual cycle health app used by more than twelve million active users in over 190 countries.

Ida created the term “femtech” in 2016 and is the founder of Femtech Assembly, a think tank to articulate the link between Femtech, economy and planetary health.

Prior to starting Clue, Ida led motorcycle tours around the world for five years in the motorcycle touring company MotoMundo she co-founded with her dad. She guided tours in Mongolia, Cuba and Vietnam amongst other destinations.

The travel adventures on her motorcycle led Ida to write her book, Directress, which was published in 2009.

She is now working on a new book about Femtech and is an active voice in the Femtech space.

To learn more about Ida Tin, Clue and Femtech Assembly:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/idatin/

Erene Henninger, an immigrant from the Philippines, moved to the United States in 2007. She met her husband Brantley in 2009 and welcomed their daughter Noëlle in 2016.

Erene not only has a passion for coffee but more importantly, she has a passion for people. In 2019, they were looking for potential properties to purchase that could be split-use commercial and residential. They looked in places like Suffolk and Chesapeake, but never really found a perfect fit. Then 2020 hit and brought with it Covid-19. Opening a coffee shop was not a wise decision at the time, but she still wanted to pursue a coffee business, even if she had to start from home.

During quarantine days in 2020, when everyone was working from home, she wished for someone to deliver coffee to her. That’s when she realized she can deliver coffee to people! She experimented with cold brew coffee and eventually came up with 30+ flavors. Project Seed Coffee Cold Brew was being sold online for delivery and also at farmers’ markets.

What started as a cold brew delivery service has gone full scale to a brick and mortar shop in April 2024. Located in the heart of Kempsville, Virginia Beach, Project Seed Coffee offers Filipino inspired coffee and pastries while focusing on building a collaborative community.

To learn more about Erene Henninger and Project Seed Coffee:
IG, Facebook, Tiktok: @projectseedcoffee

Cacie Robichaux was born in Louisiana and has been living in Wisconsin since 2009.
Cacie received her bachelors, worked for a hot minute then started a family and decided to be a stay at home mom for several years. She decided to go back to school where she received her second degree: an associate of software development. Her second degree led her to a career as a Scrum Master.
Cacie is a facilitator who leads a team using the Scrum framework for agile project management. Scrum masters help their teams implement Scrum principles and practices, and coach them on how to improve their workflows.

To Cacie, building solid relationships and a sense of psychological safety in the work place is very important. She likes to be a multipurpose person and help out wherever needed.

Cacie is a mother of three daughters and very active in their lives coaching sports and ubering them around to lots of activities. She doesn’t have to ever worry about meeting her favorite athletes because she gets to raise her own.
Cacie loves a good physical challenge. She completed RAGBRAI in 2024, which is a bike ride across Iowa. She also plans to run a half marathon in Wisconsin this spring.
In addition, Cacie and her daughters are volunteering at Hope Heals Camp, a camp for individuals affected by disabilities and their families. They would like to raise funds in order for campers to attend for free. To learn more about Hope Heals Camp, go to hopeheals.com/camp or click on the link below:
https://secure.qgiv.com/event/hhc2025/account/1947341/
She’s an introvert, and gets her energy from reading a book in her basement. She loves Malcolm Gladwell, Brene Brown, Simon Sinek and Adam Grant.
To find out more about Cacie Robichaux:
LinkedIn: Cacie Robichaux

Dr. Patricia Wright is a scientist and distinguished professor in the Department of Anthropology
at Stony Brook University, NY. She has received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (Genius
Award) and three medals of honor from the Malagasy government. In 2014 she was the first
woman to win the Indianapolis Prize for Animal Conservation (equivalent to the Nobel Prize in
Conservation).

Dr. Wright is the Founder and Executive Director of Stony Brook University’s
Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments, and is the Founder and Executive
Director of the Centre ValBio, a research and training center in Ranomafana, Madagascar. After
discovering a new species(spee-sheez) of lemur in 1986, she helped establish its habitat as a national park
and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. She continues to lead research expedition to remote
places in Madagascar which make valuable contributions to science.

Dr. Wright has published over 200 scientific papers, authored four books and has given
hundreds of lectures to museums, universities and societies throughout the US and Europe.
Her research and accomplishments have been featured in the award-winning documentary
IMAX/Warner Brothers film “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar” narrated by Morgan Freeman, and most recently the documentary, “Ivohiboro(eev-wee-bore) – the lost forest”, which premiered in France in the fall of 2024.

To learn more about Dr. Patricia Wright:
https://www.instagram.com/patcwright/?hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricia-wright-5a15889/

To learn more about Centre Val Bio:
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/centre-valbio/
https://www.instagram.com/centrevalbio/?hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy-ibXFhKs-UOpSlyKROj7A/videos
https://www.linkedin.com/company/centre-valbio/

Erin Schnabel (@ebullientworks) is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat and a Java Champion with over 25 years of experience as a developer, technical leader, architect, and advocate. Erin prefers being up to her elbows in code. She learns and teaches through practical (and occasionally ridiculous) application, focusing on automation and developer experience. As Chairperson of the Commonhaus Foundation, she is building tools to automate all the things, wielding Java and TypeScript with equal enthusiasm.

To learn more about Erin Schnabel:
Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@ebullient
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ebullient.dev
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinschnabel/
Discord: ebullientworks