LCC Women’s Network Fall 2026 Event

Fit, Focused & Full of Joy

Thursday, October 29th - 3-5 PM
Gannon Building, Michigan Room

All employees are invited to energizing, inspiring afternoon centered on your mental and physical health. The LCC Women’s Network fall event, “Fit, Focused & Full of Joy,” will be held 3-5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, in the Michigan Room.

Through movement, healthy living tips, meaningful conversation and plenty of laughter, we’ll explore how small choices can help us feel focused and joyful. Light refreshments will be served.

Come ready to move, connect, laugh and celebrate you! Space is limited, so register today to secure your seat.

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Presenters

Catharyn “Catye” Palomino
Faculty-Program Chair, Communications

Catye Palomino has been a classroom educator for more than 29 years. This is her 7th year at LCC where she teaches Communication and is the program Lead Faculty. Before moving to higher ed, Catye taught high school Social Studies in the Grand Rapids area for 23 years. Catye is motivated in the classroom by her belief that if she expects students to be interested, then it is her job to make it interesting.

Outside the classroom, Catye is a professional comedian, story teller, and wedding officiant. Her basic goal, no matter what she’s doing, is to find a way to connect with whomever shows up. Catye believes in giving compliments, being intentional, and seeing every time she leaves her house as an opportunity for adventure. She’s been to all 50 states, she’s an obsessive reader and she’s a fierce advocate of erasing the stigma of mental health.

Catye is proud of her quick wit and sense of humor and as she told her HS teachers, making jokes has proven much more useful in life than the Pythagorean Theorem.

Catye and her dog, Eleanor Roosevelt, live in Grand Rapids, MI.

 

Cheryl Chase
Adjunct Associate Professor, Fitness & Wellness Program

Cheryl Chase has dedicated more than thirty years to the health and wellness field, bringing a holistic mind-body-spirit approach to working with students and clients.  Cheryl earned her master’s degree in “Health Education and Health Promotion,” and has built a diverse portfolio including personal training, tactical training, nutritional education, and mobility movements. 

Beyond her professional life Cheryl walks the talk, being a nature enthusiast she knows being active helps her enjoy life.  She loves hiking, working out, golfing and walking at any beautiful beach. Cheryl especially delights in gathering with family and friends sharing a home-made meal (nutritionally sound of course😊) complete with laughter, conversations, and games.

 

Kim Cook

Kim Cook is a Grand Rapids, Michigan-based comedian, Second City alum, and technology recruiter by day who brings a fresh, relatable perspective to the stage. Blending personal stories with observational humor, she finds comedy in life’s unexpected twists, from navigating breast cancer and an international marriage to the adventures of middle age. Kim is a member and co-producer of North Kent Comedy Productions (NKC), helping bring quality comedy events to audiences across Michigan while raising funds for charitable organizations. She helped launch NKC’s HAHAs for TATAs, an annual fundraiser benefiting Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids that raises breast cancer awareness and supports those impacted by cancer.

Kim has opened for David Koechner, Steven Rogers, Heywood Banks, and Lee Hardin, among others. Her performance credits include Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle, Dr. Grins, Zanies, Coral Gables Comedy Club, Underground Laugh Lounge, Gilda’s LaughFest, and the Plano Comedy Festival.