NYS Women Buffalo Niagara Chapter Events

Aug
29

Women's Day at the NYS Fair

Join NYS Women at the NYS Fair for Women's Day on August 29, 2018 at 10am.

NYS Women Buffalo Niagara Chapter Event Details

Oct
16

716 Chapter - 20th Annual Basket Auction

Join 716 Chapter for our 20th Annual Basket Auction on Tuesday, October 16, 2018. All proceeds will go towards the Award and Benefit Fund.

Why am I part of BNC...

You may be wondering if NYS Women Inc. is a good use of your valuable time. It is. I've been a member since 1999 and have made great contacts, great friends, learned a lot about a variety of topics and enjoyed wonderful food. What else could be worth only a couple hours of your time per month?

Amy Jo Lauber, CFP
Lauber Financial Planning

The Buffalo Niagara Chapter of NYS Women, Inc. – fosters the success of women in the workforce throughout Western New York; offering career advancement resources, work/life strategies, leadership development, and personal and professional connections.

Janna Willoughby-Lohr - July 2018 Women in Leadership Honoree

Janna Willoughby-Lohr took a leap of faith in 2013 when she founded Papercraft Miracles, an eco-friendly stationery and bookbinding studio. They create decorative handmade papers, plantable seed bombs, wedding invitations, handbound journals and photo albums, pop-up books, paper flowers and more.

Kerry Planck - June 2018 Women in Leadership Honoree

Kerry Planck is owner of New York State’s only organic dairy goat farm and and founder of Alpine Made, an organic soap and skincare business that supports healthy, clean, sustainable living. Not a bad resume but also an evolving one for a business owner and mom who started her career as a USDA inspector.

Kerry Planck might not have originally planned to emulate her grandfather, who operated five different family farms. She pursued degrees in environmental forest biology and a Masters in ecology before becoming an inspector with the US Department of Agriculture. It was in 2009 that she and her then-husband started their family and she reached back to her roots and established her 15-acre goat farm.

Sarah Bachwitz - May 2018 Women in Leadership Honoree

Sarah Bachwitz is the founder and president of Empower Camp, a new non-profit created to ignite young women’s inner power. It is a non-denominational camp program, open to all cultures, religions and backgrounds for young women ages 14-18.

Empower Camp was founded in the depths of the Gobi Desert. Yes, you read that correctly. The Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Sarah hiked 100 kilometers across the Gobi Desert without the comforts of home and realized that it is not the clothes she wears or her social media or anything else that defines her. Sarah says, “What defines her is her inner power. Her inner power got her through those nine days in the desert and her inner power will continue to allow her to chase her dreams and live boldly.”

Joelle Logue - April 2018 Women in Leadership Honoree

Originally from Allentown, PA, Joelle Logue has a BA in Political Science/English from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked as a newspaper editor and advertising copywriter but her passion now is as an advocate for women’s issues.

Women In Leadership Award

Women In Leadership Application PDF

July 2018 Honoree

Janna Willoughby-Lohr
Papercraft Miracles- Owner

She came up with the idea of the business while in college in 2001. She intended to be an artist but wanted also to make a living at it, so she created a her own major bringing entrepreneurial business and art together. Since then, she has been slowly building up her skills in both fields until making the business official in 2013.

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