Our Expert Advisors
Every QBA grantee gains access to our network of volunteer expert advisors – seasoned professionals who are passionate about supporting queer businesses and entrepreneurs. These advisors offer their time, expertise, and insights to help grantees navigate challenges, capture opportunities, and build sustainable businesses.
How It Works for Grantees
When you receive a QBA grant, you’ll get profiles of our expert advisors along with their areas of expertise. You can reach out directly to advisors whose skills align with your needs to arrange consultations, mentoring sessions, or strategic discussions that work for both of your schedules. This flexible approach ensures you get the right support at the right time for your business journey.
Our advisors volunteer their time because they believe in the importance of queer representation in business and want to see our community thrive. They bring diverse backgrounds, industries, and perspectives – all united by a shared commitment to lifting up queer businesses.
Meet Our Advisors
Nor Jobarah
Marketing, Service-based industry, Organic growth
Why do you want to support other queer businesses?
I have built a successful business in just three years and provide coaching / mentorship to young chiropractors in new graduates to help them do the same. I have a strong message on keeping life balanced, finding purpose and fulfillment, and providing a service that can change peoples’ lives. I feel that I have a very unique experience that can be influential to any young business owner who is trying to swim upstream.
Bex Paz
Sales, Marketing
Why do you want to support other queer businesses?
I support other queer-owned businesses because community-building is at the heart of everything I do, both professionally and personally. Whether I’m providing Spanish learning programming to help others connect with their Spanish-speaking neighbors or creating safe, joyful spaces for Sapphics to share hobbies and build friendships, it all comes back to one thing: uplifting each other and strengthening the communities we belong to.
Jax Wheatley
Finance
Why do you want to support other queer businesses?
There is a need for quality assistance with accounting and taxes for small business owners.
Jade Baranski
Sales, Marketing, Exits
Why do you want to support other queer businesses?
After building, scaling and selling three companies – I am clear that I could have never done it alone and am committed to helping other queer businesses achieve their goals.
Tina Reynolds
Branding, Messaging, Legacy
Why do you want to support other queer businesses?
My community always comes first.
Eli Coughlin-Galbraith
Operations, Sales, Community-building
Why do you want to support other queer businesses?
Because I needed queer advisors in 2014 and I didn’t have them! I had generic business advice that rarely worked.
Ryan Rose
Marketing, Sales, Value Propositions, Personal Financial Goals
Why do you want to support other queer businesses?
Co-creating pathways for queer business owners, using intentionality and strategy to create more queer millionaires with a focus on stewardship and philanthropy.
Bryana Ziegler
Holistic / Mental Health
Why do you want to support other queer businesses?
As a queer therapist, I want to support queer businesses because they embody the love, resilience, and visibility that I strive to cultivate in my work and our community.
Catrina Linhard
Sales, Marketing, Operations
Why do you want to support other queer businesses?
I want to support other queer businesses because I want to be a part of redistributing economic power to a community that brings more vibrant color, diversity, and creativity to our world!
Amber Bryant
Recruiting and Team Culture
Why do you want to support other queer businesses?
I want to support queer businesses because until everyone is represented equally at the table, the table means nothing.