Chef Mandy Bailey and her husband, Trueman Muhrer-Irwin, have been working on their nonprofit community café, Big Big Table, for four years. They plan for a welcoming place where people from all backgrounds can come together to enjoy a healthy meal, regardless of ability to pay.

Members of the Buffalo Niagara Chapter from St. Bonaventure University came together with the Jandoli School of Communication's Woman of Promise panel two years ago to create a bracket to help with advocacy of amazing women throughout our history.

March is Women's History Month and there will be events all across Buffalo and Erie County throughout the month of March. The attached calendar lists all the events, locations and important details regarding each event.

Calendar 

It hasn’t been that long since a woman has been able to have her own credit card. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 granted a woman the right to have a credit card in her own name – which translated into an unprecedented degree of independence for women. Feminists and advocates for women’s equal rights, including New York State Women, Inc., fought hard for this basic right – enabling women’s financial freedom.

Our January 2017 “Woman in Leadership is Ann-Marie Orlowski, the new CEO of Cradle Beach. Ann-Marie, a Lancaster resident, has 25 years of experience working in child welfare.

Lisa Booz is regional director of Camp Good Days and Special Times. She says, “We have a couple of mottos here: ‘Camp Good Days: where courage has no boundaries’ and ‘giving back the childhood that cancer took away.’ We live these sayings daily – doing whatever it takes to get the kids to laugh.”

Sheila L. Brown is a multi-tasker supreme: she’s CEO of Vision Multi-Media and the owner of WUFO 1080 AM radio, and most recently she’s added author to her responsibilities. In 2015, Brown released her first book, “29 Years of Preparation.”

Christine E.B. Howard has been honored as a “Woman in Leadership” in October by the Buffalo Niagara Chapter of New York State Women, Inc. This program recognizes Western New York women who exhibit leadership, enterprise, and excellence in their business or profession while giving back to the community.

Linda Pellegrino has been the host of AM Buffalo weekdays at 10:00 AM for over 20 years, conducting thousands of live interviews with personalities ranging from the biggest Hollywood stars to British royalty.

Hillary Clinton’s historic nomination by a major political party as a candidate for president of the United States put more cracks in the proverbial glass ceiling but notice that the ceiling has not come crashing down.