March is Women’s History Month and each year the Buffalo Niagara Chapter of NYS Women, Inc. celebrates the milestones we’ve made and reminds us of the challenges we still face. Did you know that we are celebrating our 100th Anniversary?

Have you gotten a chance to know our members yet this year? Or are you looking to do a bit more networking? Look no further! We will be holding our Spring Mix N’ Mingle event this April

Want to voice your opinion about NYS Women Inc. and have your voice heard? We will be having our annual business meeting where we will have table captains leading the discussion.

Our annual event honors these inspiring women who have been an essential part of WNY’s growth as a community.  Our Women in Leadership, have empowered women personally, professionally, and politically.

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 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.

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

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

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.”

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.