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Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship featuring Dr. Kit Evans-Ford, Founder and Director, Argrow's House of Healing and Hope.

Argrow's House is a healing house and bath and body social enterprise in the Quad Cities providing free holistic services and employment for women healing from violence and abuse. A recipient of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Outstanding Public Service Benefiting Local Communities, Kit is one of five people in the country honored this year for multiplying good and proving that one person can make a difference.

Can leaders create safe spaces that combine both holistic healing and financial empowerment? The founding, building, and learnings from Argrow’s House Bath and Body, will be shared as an example of a self-sustaining social enterprise that is being used to do good in the world, while also creating jobs for vulnerable populations. Kit will share her business journey and leadership insights to starting and growing a successful social enterprise. 


National trainer, spiritual director, and founder, Dr. Kit Evans-Ford is a woman who is passionate about nonviolence, God, and assisting women in healing from violence.
 
Born in Mebane, North Carolina, education became a positive outlet for her. Kit holds a BA in Communications, a MAT in Special Education, MA in Social Justice and Community Development, MDiv degree and a Doctor of Ministry Degree in Spiritual Direction from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL. Dr. Kit is a Teach for America and United States Peace Corps Alumni. She has studied and served in England, Japan, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis.
 
Dr. Kit is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Theology at St. Ambrose University. Dr. Kit also splits her time as the Action Outreach Organizer for Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service where she is one of the lead organizers for Campaign Nonviolence. She has lead in organizing thousands of peace actions around the world. She is the author of 101 Testimonies of Hope: Life Stories to Encourage Your Faith in God and A Children’s Book On Bishop Richard Allen: A Nonviolent Journey.
 
She is also a certified spiritual director and the founder of Argrow’s House of Healing and Hope in Davenport, Iowa. Argrow’s House is a safe space where free services are offered daily for women healing from violence and abuse in the greater Quad Cities area. Argrow’s House is also a successful social enterprise where women healing from violence create beautiful bath products that provide a living wage for themselves in a safe space that celebrates who they are.
 
Dr. Kit serves as a minister at Grace City Church. Kit resides in Davenport, Iowa with her husband, Pastor Dwight L. Ford, and children; Imani and Justice.

If you need any special requirements to attend this meeting please contact  Marcy Hyder at [email protected]
 
If you are not a current Quad Cities Chamber member and are interested in attending this event, please contact Marcy Hyder at (563)823-2690.

​Cancellation Policy:
Cancellations must be received at least 72 hours in advance in order to receive a registration refund. You may transfer your registration to another person within your company at no additional cost.