This Week’s Speaker
Jamila Conley, Founder & CEO – WeRiseWines
From Tech to Wine, Pivoting with Purpose
Jamila Conley
Jamila Conley is a dynamic executive with over 25 years of experience aligning people, operations, and execution with corporate strategy. She is currently the CEO & Founder of WeRise Wines which is a mission based business focused on driving access and awareness to diverse wineries and winemakers. Jamila recently left the tech world where she held leadership roles spanning Talent Acquisition, M&A integration, business transformation, and IT strategic solutioning. She brings extensive experience in refining complex business processes and executing large-scale transformative initiatives. Jamila holds a CPA license, an MBA in Management Information Systems, and a Certification as an Information Security Auditor.
Jamila is a Board Trustee of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and also serves on the Board of Technology Access Foundation which is working to bridge the equity gap in education and introduces students of color to STEM. In addition to Board service, Jamila is an IWF Fellow Alumnus through which she has completed executive education programs at INSEAD and Harvard Business School focused on women’s leadership in the C-suite.
As an active advocate for Women and people of color, Jamila founded the first DEI affinity group for IWF-WA chapter, she co-authored the IWF-WA Mentoring Playbook, and she has been a guest speaker for several forums and panels addressing D&I topics.
About Bellevue Rotary
Founded in 1961, the Bellevue Rotary Club is an organization of local community and business leaders who make a difference by serving the citizens of our city and the world. Our primary avenues of service are Community Service, International Service, Vocational Service, and Youth Service.
Bellevue Rotary’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Bellevue Rotary Club unequivocally embraces Rotary’s intolerance for racism. We believe in promoting respect, celebrating diversity, demanding ethical leadership, and working tirelessly to advance peace as central tenets of our work. We recognize we have more work to do to create a more just, open and welcoming club for all people. We acknowledge and support Black humanity and its value. We acknowledge the sadness, anger, mental and emotional exhaustion, and trauma that our African American members and other people of color continue to experience. The Bellevue Rotary Club understands its responsibility towards truth, equity, and social justice, and will work with our members to dismantle any and all forms of systemic racism within our Club. To do this, we will carefully look at our Club’s culture, policies, partners, and the work we do in our community as we work to improve ourselves first. The Bellevue Rotary Club will also work towards being an anti-racist club in alignment with our long history and value of serving humanity.
Bellevue Rotary Officers and Directors, July 2023–June 2024
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