International Women’s Day celebrates the achievements of women globally. Being female founded is integral to Dateability’s mission, and we want to highlight other female change makers.
KALY RYAN – CAPELLA DESIGN
Kaly Ryan is an award-winning Industrial Designer (BDes) with over a decade of experience in furniture design and manufacturing. Passionate about inclusive design and the intersection of design and health, she founded Capella Design in 2022, the first lifestyle brand reimagining home mobility products as beautiful furniture and accessories. In addition to leading Capella’s product development, Kaly consults with homeowners, designers, and builders to integrate accessible design principles into residential and commercial spaces. Through her work, she is redefining accessible design by reducing stigma and supporting both physical and emotional well-being at home.
HELYA MOHAMMADIAN – SLICK CHICKS
Helya Mohammadian is the founder of Slick Chicks, an adaptive intimates brand built after recognizing how something as personal as underwear can quietly impact dignity, independence, and confidence for women navigating disability, recovery, and life transitions. What began as noticing a gap turned into a deeper commitment to creating products that help women feel like themselves during vulnerable moments. By listening closely to her community and growing alongside the women Slick Chicks serves, Helya is focused on making accessibility feel natural, supportive, and part of everyday fashion rather than something hidden or clinical.
REBECCA FEINGLOS – GRIEVE LEAVE
Rebecca Feinglos (pronounced fine-gloss) is a certified grief support specialist, founder of Grieve Leave, and host of the podcast Grief’d Up. After losing her mother as a teenager, her father suddenly in 2020, and her marriage in a drawn-out divorce, Rebecca took a year-long “grief sabbatical” — a journey that sparked a global community helping thousands make space for loss with honesty, humor, and practical support.
Today, Grieve Leave reaches millions worldwide through education, storytelling, and workplace training, all aimed at building a more grief informed world. Rebecca’s work has been featured in TIME, LA Times, Fortune, Slate, and more for her raw, relatable voice on grief.
NITIKA CHOPRA – CHRONICON
Nitika Chopra is the Founder and CEO of Chronicon and The Chronicon Foundation, a pioneering platform and nonprofit uplifting those living with chronic illness through community, advocacy, and education. A seasoned host, speaker, and entrepreneur, she’s collaborated with brands like Google, Microsoft, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, hosted a globally distributed talk show, and now leads Truth Talks via her publication The Truth Today. Her mission: to create healing spaces where people are empowered to live fully and thrive on their terms.
BÉRÉNICE MAGISTRETTI – VISIBLE VOICES
Bérénice is the co-founder and editor of Visible Voices, a new platform that is shifting the perspective on disabilities by creating a new narrative through the lenses of fashion, beauty, art, design and culture. The mission is to destigmatise disabilities by showcasing them through a new artistic lens and nuanced storytelling, hoping this will inspire more people to be vocal about who they are and visible as they are. Bérénice trained as a journalist and has written for publications that include L’Officiel, Vanity Fair London, WIRED UK, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Forbes and British Vogue. She is a visually impaired activist striving to shift the narrative around disabilities and did a TEDx talk on transitioning from an invisible to a visible disability. She is the proud owner of the coolest, most stylish cane, which she co-designed.
LACHI – RAMPD
Lachi is an award-winning recording artist and world
touring public speaker, and the first openly disabled National Trustee of the Recording Academy, which presents the GRAMMYs. Born legally blind, she is the CEO of RAMPD (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities), a global network that has powerhouse partners including Netflix. Named a USA Today Woman of the Year and a “dedicated foot soldier for disability pride” by Forbes, Lachi hosted the PBS American Masters series Renegades; and was featured in the New York Times, Good Morning America, and TIME Magazine; and in ads for Google and Mastercard. She has spoken at The White House and United Nations.