Cheli English-Figaro

Founder, Mocha Moms

Charlotte

Cheli English-Figaro is a native New Yorker and a graduate of Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. After working at a corporate law firm and for the Department of Commerce, she shifted career gears after having her first child.

During that shift, in addition to teaching, selling real estate and managing a medical practice, she co-founded Mocha Moms, Inc. She is the last active co-founder and currently serves among other things as a National Board Member, Director of Chapter Chartering, Occupy Schools Director, and Mocha Network Developer.

Cheli has recently also started GrayHairedMama, a company created to motivate and inspire moms who are 55 years of age and older to reclaim center stage in their lives after their children are grown. The goal is to help those moms grow, connect, thrive and live their best lives in midlife and beyond.

Cheli is a member of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. and The Links, Inc. She and her husband, Dr. K. Michael Figaro, MD have been married for 29 years and are the parents of two adult children and one teenager who is in 10th grader.