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Please note that this WWLA Luncheon will be held on WEDNESDAY.

Our WIBA Women's luncheon is a great time to network with other like-minded women and leaders.

Shelly Prichard is the President & CEO of the Wichita Foundation, a position she has had since 2012. At the Foundation, which manages more than $100 million in assets, Shelly interacts with donors to help them direct their charitable giving. She and the WF team also work to fulfill their mission to invest in people and ideas to spark change.  In 2022, the Foundation helped direct more than $7 million to nonprofits in South Central Kansas.

Prior to her role at the community foundation, Shelly was the CEO of the Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland, serving 80 counties in Kansas, and managing the business merger of seven Girl Scout councils.

Shelly grew up on a farm outside of Newton, Kansas, and earned a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from K-State. She spent several years moving throughout the mid-West, working for a variety of companies, all with ties to marketing and communications.  Some stops included The Indianapolis Zoo, the Illinois Board of Regents, and Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, and Youth Entrepreneurs of Kansas.

When she’s not working for a better Wichita, Shelly enjoys baking, reading, playing the cello, walking her dog, and going to K-State football games.