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From 2003-2025 Tamra Ryan was the CEO of Women’s Bean Project, a social enterprise providing transitional employment in its food manufacturing business to women attempting to break the cycle of chronic unemployment and poverty. She serves as the Coors Economic Mobility Fellow for Common Sense Institute Colorado.Named as Most Influential CEO and Ten Most Influential Women in Business 2023, Tamra is a former partner and board member for Social Venture Partners-Denver and Social Enterprise Alliance. Congressman Mike Coffman (R-CO) recognized Tamra’s servant leadership and entered it into the Congressional Record of the 115th Congress, Second Session in May 2018. She was honored by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce as one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Colorado, and in 2022 and 2023 as a Titan100 CEO and Social Entrepreneur of the year by the Colorado Institute for SocialImpact. She was a presenter at TEDxMilehigh and is a highly sought-after speaker for topics such as compassionate leadership and so