Celebrating Inspirational Women in March

 Here at Doppler, we’re very grateful to be surrounded by inspiring, wonderful women, and to celebrate International Women’s Day this year, we wanted to shout about those women. But there were so many that we felt that just one day wasn’t enough, so instead of just one post on 8th March, we dedicated all of March to celebrating inspirational women. 

We’ve had so much fun celebrating and sharing these inspirational women, that we’ve decided to make this a regular feature in our social calendar, and it’ll be back next year! So if you have someone to nominate get in touch.

Thank you so much to everyone who took part, for inspiring us and giving us permission to splash them across our social media.

A small act of kindness can go a long way and we have been honoured to provide a platform to celebrate women. We wanted to celebrate the women in our lives who are doing amazing things, rather than just famous people and celebrities getting all of the recognition. 

In case you missed the posts on our social media channels, read on to find out more about everyone that we featured in 2021. 

31 inspirational women in March 2022

Danielle Morgan, Co-Founder of Doppler Effect

We kicked off with our very own Danielle, Co-Founder of Doppler. Innately kind, magic and a gentle determination to make the world a better place, packed full of people doing what they love. Danielle is a force to be reckoned with!

Find out more about Danielle here.

Marie Curie 

Possibly one of the most famous scientists of all time, Marie Curie was a Polish scientist. After moving to France, Marie Curie met her husband Pierre, and together they had discoveries that led to them being awarded a Nobel Prize in 1903. In 1911, Marie Curie won another Nobel Prize, this time on her own and became the first woman to win it. Marie and Pierre Curie made ground-breaking discoveries in radioactivity, as well as discovering two new chemical elements: polonium and radium. These discoveries were all vital in the development of radiotherapy, as well X-rays. In fact, their discoveries meant that Marie Curie was able to develop a portable X-ray unit that could be used near the battlefront during World War One. Isn't that incredible?

Amelia Earhart

If there was anyone who believed in their dreams, it was Amelia Earhart! She became the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean! Did you know that Amelia Earhart would sleep in her leather jacket to make it seem more worn, so she'd be taken seriously? It took a huge amount of courage and bravery to fly across oceans alone, but she was dedicated to doing everything in her power to achieve her dreams! 

Maheen Noor Soomro

An absolute force of nature, Maheen isn't only on the advisory board here at Doppler, she has several of her own businesses in tech, business and recruitment and she's a talented artist and illustrator! On top of all of that, she's a passionate advocate for women’s rights, and she works with multiple organisations across Asia to promote female empowerment. 

Find out more about Maheen here.

Brene Brown

Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.' 

More than ever, we're living in a world where we're supposed to have it all: a successful career, a happy family, a full social life, be up to date with the news and world events, holidays, health, cook healthy meals and look great whilst doing it. There can be this pressure to really have it all together. What we love is how Dr Brené Brown wants us to break free from these suffocating ideas of perfection. The Power of Vulnerability, her 2010 TEDx talk is one of the world's top ten most viewed TED talks, and one of her key messages is really to just embrace the imperfectness of life. And we love that here at Doppler! 

Find out more about Brene Brown here. 

Deana Murfitt

Deana is an absolute superstar, as well as creating Breakfast People, she has been serving up exciting People strategies in fast-growth scale-ups since the dotcom boom! Deana’s consultancy style is collaborative, pragmatic, and fun. Bringing her unique experience & insight, she works with her clients to deliver executive coaching, resilient People Plans, and strategy communications.

Find out more about Deana here. 

Cherlene Wilson

An absolute powerhouse, we're so honoured to have Cherlene as a member of Doppler's Advisory Board! Not only is she part of our team, she's also the Queen of Authenticity, no, really, she's written a best-selling book on the topic! As if that's not enough, she also has several businesses, she's an Emotional Wholeness Coach, a healer, and an internationally recognised prophetic speaker! 

Find out more about Cherlene here. 

Greta Thunberg

Greta is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation. Beginning when she was 15, Greta started spending her school days outside the Swedish Parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign saying Skolstrejk för klimatet (School strike for climate). Soon other students held similar protests in their own communities. After Greta addressed the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, student strikes took place every week somewhere in the world. In 2019, there were multiple coordinated multi-city protests, with over a million students across the world involved. The climate crisis and being more environmentally conscious is so important to us here at Doppler, and we love that Greta has stood up to demand a difference.

Find out more about Greta here. 

Jamie Klingler

Jamie is something else. How can we describe her? Well, writer, speaker, creator of National Burger Day, Mum of McNulty, and co-founder of Reclaim These Streets is all just a start. She's a force of nature. 

Plus, in March. Jamie, Jessica Leigh, Anna Birley and Henna Shah won their case in the High Court, which ruled that the Met Police breached the rights of freedom of speech and assembly by forcing Reclaim These Streets to cancel their vigil in Clapham to honour Sarah Everard last year. 

If you'd like to know more about Jamie, we interviewed her for Doppler's blog back in 2018 and it's absolutely worth a read, take a look here. 

Find out more about Jamie here.

Diane Abbott

Ever since making history in 1987 as the first black woman elected to British Parliament, Diane Abbott has built an incredible career as a parliamentarian, broadcaster and commentator! From the beginning of her career, Diane has championed global justice, human rights, peace, and security issues at home and abroad. She has been a vocal campaigner around race relations, transparency and justice around policing, surveillance, Stop & Search, and detainment without trial. 

Find out more about Diane Abbott here.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

In March, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was finally reunited with her husband and daughter in the UK after years of detention in Iran. Six years ago, Richard Ratcliffe stood at Gatwick Airport, waving goodbye to his wife as Nazanin was taking Gabriella with her to Iran to see her grandparents. Richard had no reason to believe they wouldn't be back home a couple of weeks later. Last week, Nazanin finally stepped off a plane at RAF Brize Norton. After years of detention, she and fellow British Iranian Anoosheh Ashoori were finally coming home. A little voice asked: "Is that Mummy?" Gabriella, now seven, rushed to hug her mother. Such bravery and courage has been shown all round, and we're so, so inspired by Nazanin's story.

Find out more about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe here.

Roxanne Ong

Not only is Roxanne an absolute digital marketing superstar, who's incredibly professional with a hugely diverse skill set, she's also an amazing person who is driven, dedicated, and determined. She has a real passion for what she does, which is so inspiring! She's basically a digital marketing wonder woman!

Find out more about Roxanne here.

Shelle Luscombe

Shelle is incredible, she's a true entertainer inside out. With a big heart and tons of creativity, there's almost nothing she doesn't do! Shelle is a radio presenter, event MC, talent curator, professional vocalist, and voiceover artist. Plus, in 2016, she founded Vocal Tonix, a community group that runs weekly 'singalong and social' sessions in Twickenham. With sessions open to all regardless of musical ability, Shelle has created a safe space for people to enjoy singing (and dancing) along to an array of songs from many decades and many genres! 

Find out more about Shelle here.

Stephanie Noze

Stephanie is one of those people whose determination and energy is infectious! Living in New York, she's a frontline nurse who worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic, as well as a businesswoman, has a passion for real estate, and she's a professor and lecturer who has recently launched her own interior design business, Stephanie Noze Interiors. 

Stephanie has so much passion and drive, talent and flare, we feel honoured to know her! 

Find out more about Stephanie here.

Fiona Quinn

Fiona is excellent, starting her career in tour operations and events, working across the world from Egypt to the Maldives, French and Swiss Alps, Mexico and China as an overseas rep and tour guide. Before she then went on to combine her love of travel with content and communications, completing courses in journalism, copywriting and the neuroscience/psychology of communications. Plus, her interest in positive psychology, team building and wellbeing makes her a great person to have an interesting chat with. We think she's an all round superstar!

Find out more about Fiona here.

Sally Coulden 

Sally is an incredibly creative artist and has been on such an interesting journey to get to where she is now! She trained as a nurse in Cambridge but very quickly decided to move to Bristol and train as a midwife. After that, she moved to Australia and entered the world of Clinical Research and trained in Sexology. On her return to the UK, she worked at a top 4 Pharmaceutical company. Following that, she then worked as a Clinical Scientist working in the developing world, mostly Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. A lot of travelling! For the two years prior to starting Art School, Sally was living in Switzerland, commuting each week from Bristol. Sally's art is all about freedom and being free, which we absolutely love. 

If you'd like to know more about Sally, we interviewed her back in 2018 on the Doppler blog, take a look here.

Find out more about Sally here.

Isha McIntosh

With absolutely bundles of energy and drive, Isha is a superstar. 

She's a co-founder of Life 2020, she has her own beauty business, plus she also volunteers for the Kuumba Centre! 

Find out more about Isha here.

Lynne Twist

For more than 40 years, Lynne Twist has been a global visionary committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. From working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta to the refugee camps in Ethiopia and the threatened rainforests of the Amazon, Lynne’s on-the-ground work has brought her a deep understanding of people’s relationship with money. Her breadth of knowledge and experience has given her profound insights into the world and the historical landscape of the times we are living in. From these experiences, she wrote her bestselling book: The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life, which has now been translated into nine languages! This book is a game-changer and has been the catalyst for some interesting conversations around money and finances here at Doppler! 

Find out more about Lynne Twist here.

Collette Nabyonga

Collette is incredible, she has so much passion and drive. She's a co-founder of Tech Inclusion UK, an incredible social enterprise which began from a conversation over text between two friends, Collette and Rich, in 2020 during the height of lockdown. They were talking about the many people in education who don't have access to the internet or devices needed to benefit from at-home education and weren't available for any government support at the time. From that conversation, they worked towards creating a solution starting with addressing access to devices! 

Tech Inclusion UK has gone from a small project to a long term sustainable and circular solution to benefit education and the environment. Bringing their biz ops, legal, information security and tech experiences together with their passion for equality for all, Collette and Rich are helping close the digital exclusion gap. It's a massive undertaking but Tech Inclusion is doing incredible work!

Find out more about Collette here.

Sara Hughes

Sara has had an incredible career, plus she created and founded ROC the Possibilities, which empowers individuals and groups to transform their lives and communities through healthy relationship development, nonviolent conflict resolution, and creative social action. 

Find out more about Sara here.

Laura Crawford

With two young children, Laura (aka Mama Bamboo), decided to not return to her previous role as a Management Consultant, and instead develop and promote her own brand of greener, healthier nappies and wipes. 

Mama Bamboo launched in September 2018. Laura continues to focus not only on greener product development but also social impact, running the #thenappyrevolution campaign aimed at improving the waste management of absorbent hygiene products in UK, practising carbon offsetting through bamboo afforestation with the Ugandan Bamboo Village, and encouraging and practising employment policies that support part-time, flexi work for return-to-work parents. We interviewed Laura for the Doppler blog last year and it gives you a really lovely insight to Laura and how she runs Mama Bamboo, take a look here.

Find out more about Laura here.

Alex Townsend 

For Mother’s Day, it seemed fitting to celebrate Alex, or as she's known to Danielle, mum!  So, on Mother’s Day, we celebrated Alex, and all the other mums too - you're all incredible!

Find out more about Alex here.

Giselle Frederick 

Giselle is incredible, with a huge list of experience building, designing, and managing the delivery of tech solutions for different organisations. She has an incredible eye for detail and problem solving. In addition, Giselle is the founder of Sonaar, a skill-sharing platform that matches skilled individuals to impact initiatives around Gender, Education and Employment, within African and African-diasporan communities. 

In her spare time, Giselle works on Tech For Good initiatives, regularly mentoring in Tech Accelerators in the UK and Europe. In addition, she's also a committee member and as delegate for: G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance, UN Women 65th Commission on The Status of Women and UN Blockchain For Impact.

She is currently leading efforts in the grassroots to support the migrant community fleeing the war in Ukraine. 

Find out more about Giselle here.

Valarie Kaur

A renowned civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning filmmaker, educator, innovator, and best-selling author of See No Stranger, Valarie leads the Revolutionary Love Project to reclaim love as a force for justice. 

When Valarie was in university, a family friend was murdered in a hate crime a few days after 9/11. He was a turbaned Sikh man and was killed by a man who called himself a patriot. Across America, people of colour were beaten, chased, shot, and stabbed in thousands of hate crimes that were barely reported in the media. So, Valarie took her camera and began a journey across America to tell her community’s story and fight for racial justice. That journey continues today.

Find out more about Valarie Kaur here.

Saloni Chamberlain

There’s so much we love about Saloni, or as some of you may know her, loni, but in particular, she’s amazing because she’s fiercely loyal, incredibly kind-hearted, she has bucket loads of empathy for everyone around her. She is determined, and she works really hard to get the things that she wants and that she knows are right. 

She has the most beautiful way with words and has an exceptional talent for writing. loni has worked with Doppler for a couple of years now, kicking off by editing POTATO, and she’s now the Content Manager for Doppler. 

As well as her work with Doppler, loni is a coach-in-training, she has her own freelance writing business, and a planet-happy cards & gifts business, along came loni, with her partner, Scott. She’s pretty busy! But any time spent with loni is a pure joy!

Find out more about Saloni here.

Looking forward to next year…

It gave us so much joy to celebrate these amazing women in March, and there’s so many more women that we could’ve and wanted to share, which is why we’ve decided to make this an annual celebration.