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From Steno Pads to C-Suites: We’ve Come a Long Way
In light of our Women in Leadership issue, Comstock’s President and Publisher Winnie Comstock-Carlson reflects on how far we’ve come.
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RANDLE COMMUNICATIONS
California’s Leading Public Relations/ Public Affairs Agency
Randle Communications is a full-service public relations and public affairs firm with a full suite of in-house creative services. No challenge is too big and no detail is too small.
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MARIA OGRYDZIAK ARCHITECTURE
DESIGNING A JOURNEY FROM THE STREETS TO STABILITY
“Paul’s Place has been a project close to my heart for many years and now it’s fulfilling its entire potential,” says architect Maria Ogrydziak of the innovative fourstory building she designed to take people needing a home on a journey to stability.
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![Pictured [L-R]: Daniela Devitt, Vice President Innovation & Workforce Development; Andrea
Fredrickson, Controller; Kim Gusman, President & CEO; Jessica Hawthorne, Senior Vice President](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/screenshot_2023-10-03_at_10.29.09_am.png?1696354160)
CALIFORNIA EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION
SUPPORTING EMPLOYERS WITH HR COMPLIANCE AND TRAINING SINCE 1937
For over eight decades, the California Employers Association (CEA) has been supporting businesses of all sizes and industries with HR solutions, training and professional development services.
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DIGNITY HEALTH
THROUGH COMPASSION AND DEDICATION, KIRSTEN HANSEN LEADS THE WAY
“I love what I do,” says Kirsten Hansen. “Nursing enables me to use my critical thinking skills while caring for people at the most core level and critical times.”
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![Pictured [L-R]: Sarah Trondsen, Senior Manager, Gilbert CPAs; Michele Smith, Operations Manager, Women’s Empowerment; Lisa Culp, Executive Director, Women’s Empowerment;
Cassandra Nesler, Manager, Gilbert CPAs](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/_mg_2137.jpg?1682966984)
GILBERT CPAS
PARTNERING TO EMPOWER WOMEN WHO ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS
Gilbert CPAs provides professional services to hundreds of nonprofit organizations and supports the nonprofit community philanthropically as a cornerstone of their Culture of Caring.
![When the pandemic struck, guest columnist Darcy Totten asked herself: Women are essential to making the state economy work, but how are we going to make California's economy work for women? (Shutterstock image)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/march_shutterstock_converted_2.png?1680122944)
How to make the fourth largest economy in the world work for women
Women Are Essential to the State Economy
Last year, the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls invested in women-specific research and produced the California Blueprint for Women’s Pandemic Economic Recovery. Here is some of what they learned.
![In a little over a year and a half since becoming CALSPRA's executive director, Marquis has grown membership for the organization from 450 to 700 members. (Photos courtesy of Trinette Marquis)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/trinettecalspraphotos_1.png?1680024398)
Teaching Communication
How Trinette Marquis, executive director of CalSPRA, helps schools to communicate effectively
As the first full time, salaried executive director to be appointed to California School Public Relations Association, Marquis supports the invisible communication line between schools and families.
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Cultural Capital
Who benefits from arts and culture in the Capital Region, and who owns it?
Some members of the arts sector experience instability due to a lack of ownership in the creative movements they build. A year out from pandemic reopenings, city and state programs are supporting artists in unprecedented ways — but the relief is temporary.
![Jill Osur is the founder and CEO of Teneral Cellars, a wine company based in El Dorado County. (Photos courtesy of Jill Osur)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/osur_lead_courtesy.png?1679354819)
Wine for a Cause
Jill Osur of Teneral Cellars hopes to open conversations and inspire change, one wine bottle at a time
As the founder and CEO of Teneral Cellars, Jill Osur believes in
doing well by doing good.