Denise Ables, Vice Chair PACE Center for Girls Board of Directors
Previous occupations include: Laboratory Director, Jefferson County Health Department, Birmingham, AL Laboratory Director, Planned Parenthood of Alabama Medical Sales, 1995–2015.
Volunteering: United Way 2012-2014, Volunteer of the year 2012 and 2013 Pensacola Women’s Alliance, 2015–present, Immediate Past Board President Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast, 2016–present PACE Center for Girls, Board of Directors, 2014–present, Secretary, Executive Committee, Marketing and Media Chair, Co-Chair Men Who Cook.
Denise enjoys travel, meditation, volunteering, being joyful, pursuing healthy lifestyle.
https://www.pacecenter.org/locations/escambia-santa-rosa
deniseables@bellsouth.net
Betsy Smith is a powerful advocate, author, speaker and founder of E. L.Smith Consulting. After a 20 year career at PSC, Betsy started E. L. Smith Consulting which has two major areas of focus: Mentoring women to move from Powerless to Powerful and Patient Advocacy for family members and friends of patients in the healthcare system.She offers one to one mentoring, workshops and mastermind groups.She is co-author of “Second Blooming for Women: Growing a Life that Matters after Fifty” and is currently writing “The Patients Advocacy Handbook for Family and Friends:What to Do and How to Do It.”Betsy is a professional speaker and has spoken locally, nationally and internationally. Betsy and her husband, Jack Parkin, moved to North Carolina after Hurricane Ivan. She returned to Pensacola in 2019 after Jack’s death in 2018.
betsysmithphd@gmail.com
elsmithconsulting.com