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"From Ashes to Assets", Black Enterprise, May 19 2025

"Dean’s Roundtable", Lubin Business magazine, May 2025

"Woman Economic  Empowerment", Links, April 12, 2025

"Conquering Financial Goals and Mountain Peaks", Wharton Magazine, January 21, 2025

"Homeless to Millionaire", AM Best TV Interview, June 20, 2024

"Homeless to Millionaire", AM Best, June 18, 2024

Keynote Speaker at Empowering Women in Insurance: A Night of Inspirational Connection with ISC Group, June 12, 2024

Keynote Speaker at Women's Business Collaborative, The Meaning of Belonging: Igniting Inclusion; Sparking Action, April 15, 2024​

Keynote Speaker at Ronald McDonald House, Beyond the limits, April 2024

Keynote Speaker, Nationwide Insurance Women's Empowerment Lunch, March 2, 2023

Keynote Speaker, Beyond the limits, PIMCO, February 9, 2023

Honored with the North Star Award by NationalCARES, February 2024

Featured in SAConnects, "Boundless Grace" by Warren L. Maye, December 2022

Presented the 22nd annual "UN 21 Leaders for the 21st Century" award, October 2022

Keynote Speaker, Unstoppable, WELD Ohio, April 2022

Speaker at the Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies ESG Forum hosted by Baker Tilly, PAMIC, December 1, 2021

Awarded the Inspiration Award, Savvy Ladies' Annual Gala, November 18, 2021

"Speak Up and Lift Up": Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Financial Industry Today, ISC Podcast, November 12, 2021

Investing in a Post-Covid World, Momentum 2021: The Power of Penn Women, October 2, 2021

Panelist, Financial Empowerment, Momentum 2021 - University of Pennsylvania, October 2, 2021

Insurers Must Focus on the 'S' in ESG Investing, AM Best, May 27, 2021

Author Experiences Firsthand the Difference Insurance Can Make, AM Best, May 2021

WELD National Executive Women's Series, WELD, April 1, 2021

SPACs May Be Wall Street's Version of Title IX - Here's Why, Forbes, March 20, 2021

Phyllis Newhouse and Isabelle Friedman are busting up the SPAC Boy's Club By Bringing Athena to the Market, Forbes, March 19,2021

Athena Technology Acquisition Prices $250 million IPO, Athena Technology Acquisition, March 17, 2021

Appointment to Links Logistics' Board of Directors, Business Wire, February 17, 2021

Financial Literacy Workshop - Measuring Financial Wealth, Speaker, Florida Memorial University, January 28, 2021

A Decade by Decade Approach to Retirement, AARP/The Links Incorporated - Reston Chapter, January 23, 2021

Designed the financial literacy curriculum for Florida Memorial University, January 2021

Inclusion and Innovation in Insurance, National Underwriter, November 20, 2020

Harnessing Innovation, Inclusion to solve insurance’s toughest problems, PropertyCasualty360, October 16, 2020.

Insurance AUM Journal, "Grace Vandecruze: From Homeless to Millionaire", September 3, 2020 

ISC Group, "In Conversation With Grace", August 27, 2020

Women's International Conference, Delaware, March 7, 2020

Black History Month Gala, “Investing in an Abundant Future”, Cristo Rey New York High School, New York, February 29,2020

BLM Celebration - Investing in an Abundant Future, Keynote Speaker, Bard High School, New York, January 28, 2020

20th Annual I Have A Dream-Martin Luther King Jr. Brunch, Florida, January 20,2020

2019 Business Insurance Women to Watch, New York, December 2019

77WABC-A Climb to the Top:Stories of Personal Transformation, December 2019

D&I Breakfast Panelist, Verisk Velocity Conference, New Jersey, October 2019

CyberRisk Summit, Insurtech International Conference, Paris, October 2019

Global Insurtech Leaders Summit, New York, June 2019

Life Insurance Reinvented, Global Insurance Leader Summit Panel Moderator, New York, June 2019

Wharton Business Radio-Women@Work, Pennsylvania, May 2019

Order and Chaos, From Theories in Mathematics to Applications in Business, Global Insurance Summit Panelist, New York, May 2019

Wharton TedTalk Symposium, Philadelphia, May 2019

BLM Celebration - Investing in an Abundant Future, Keynote Speaker, Bard High School, New York, January 29, 2019

Innovator's Edge Podcast, June 2018

Closing Keynote, The Future of Work, IICF Women in Insurance, Chicago, June 2018

Fintech - Assessing its Impact: Now and the Future Panelist, FWA, New Jersey, June 2018

Lessons for the insurance industry from mountain climbing, Property Casualty 360, May 18, 2018

Keynote Speaker, Beyond the Limits, CUNA Mutual Group, Wisconsin, May 2018

“Investing and Creating a Sustainable Legacy”, Speaker AARP/The Links Incorporated - Reston Chapter, April 7, 2018

Market Watchers: Feds Will Soon Remove SIFI Designation From Prudential, End ‘Hotel California’ Regs, AM Best, Oct 2017

“Financial Empowerment” Interview on Black America - CUNY TV, September 2017

Life insurance stocks gain despite DOL's surprise fiduciary rule move, SNL, May 2017

Insurance Execs Say M&A Appears Poised for New Cycle, AM Best Interview, April 2017

Drivers in Place for M&A Resumption, AM Best TV Interview, April 2017

Life insurers’ value side amid concerns over investment income, SNL, July 2016

Coming Together: Culture M&A, Best Review, May 2016

Insurance industry execs say conditions still ripe for M&A, SNL, April 18, 2016

Insurance execs urge industry to embrace tech, SNL, April 14, 2016

MetLife victory gives hope to other ‘too big to fail’ firms, Business Insurance, April, 10, 2016

Insurance M&A and Regulations, AM Best TV Interview, April 2016

Raymond James SVP Calls MetLife SIFI Rescinding Slap in Face to FSOC, Bestwire, March 30, 2016

Insurance M&A Scoreboard, Q3’15, SNL, November 12, 2015

Changing Insurance Regulations, AM Best TV Interview, August 2015

FSOC’s SIFI Reforms are ‘Too Little, Too Late’—Critics, American Banker, January 28, 2015

Evolving Regulation and Its Impact on Insurers’ M&A Strategies, Insurance Journal, December 2014

MetLife Poses Potential Stability Threat, Regulators Say, Law 360, December 2014

FSOC Rejects MetLife’s SIFI Appeal, Insurance News Net, December 2014 

Insurance M&A Scoreboard, Q3’14, SNL, October 28, 2014

Private Equity ‘ready, willing and able’ to do insurance deals, SNL, October 17, 2014

Keynote Speaker at Baker Tilly International Insurance Conference, Insurance M&A Themes, October 2014

Keynote Speaker at Saul Ewing Insurance Seminar. Let’s Make a Deal: M&A Outlook and Trends, September 2014

Mountain-Climbing Financial Advisor Counts on Valleys, Charleston Gazette, September 2012

Economy Will Take Years to Recover, Expert Says, Charleston Daily Mail, April 2009

Insider Training – Wall Street Veteran Shares Stock Savvy, Charleston Gazette, January 2008

Quoted in the American Medical News, a publication of the American Medical Association, on physician-owner insurers and the medical malpractice crisis.

Featured in the book “Doing it for Ourselves – Success Stories of African Americans” by Donna Ballard

Featured in the book “100 Women Who Loved their Jobs and Why” by Joann Gordon, and wrote several articles in industry publications.