September 9th, 2021
As New York is getting back on its feet, it’s a great time to connect with unique and inspiring women who share a passion for managing and building businesses with creative ideas - bringing back New York stronger than ever. We hope this event will be the first of many in forging a strong community of women supporting women as we hustle towards our goals!
Cocktails & Connections: a Women in Business Networking Event will be hosted by Dominique Ramirez at Anderson Contemporary at 180 Maiden Lane.
Skyler Bouchard is a cook, on-air host and founder of the popular food blog, Dining with Skyler. She’s been in the food biz for over a decade, wearing many hats in the industry (restaurant reviewer, recipe developer, baker, food stylist, and founder of her own dessert company just to name a few!) Through her work, Skyler’s goal is to make cooking fun, approachable and “un-intimidating” for everyone. Skyler’s recipes and cooking tutorials bring creative flavors and easy cooking techniques together so that anyone can create restaurant quality dishes in the home kitchen. In addition to hosting regular videos on her blog and Youtube channel, Skyler’s a recurring host on Amazon LIVE, has hosted 4 original series on Food Network digital, and a series on INSIDER. She has also starred as a recurring commentator on Cooking Channel.
Nina LaBruna’s passion for food, ingredients and wellness blossomed as she studied nutrition and took up yoga teaching as an undergraduate student at NYU. As her knowledge about systemic health and the role nutrition plays in maintaining wellness expanded, she took an interest in the body’s largest organ, the skin. The importance of feeding our skin topically with the same vital phytonutrients we put into our bodies became her focus. She began crafting handmade face masks, serums, scrubs and body butters and by her senior year of college, launched LaBruna Skincare, a clean, plant-rich and natural product line. Currently, she is obtaining her masters in nutrition, so that she may bring the highest level of education and knowledge to her products, formulations and clients.
Go Dash Dot is a collection of totes, backpacks, and crossbody bags for women who work, work out, and go out founded by Hannah Fastov, the ultimate girl on-the-go. Each Go Dash Dot bag delivers a reinvented combination of pockets and compartment wrapped in the newest, coolest, most chic exterior out there. Carry your independence with the best day to night bag you will ever slip over your shoulder.
Female Founders of JADED CBD, Julie Spizzirri and Kaelyn Nicks are on a mission to disrupt the male-dominated, $61 billion cannabis industry. Both coming from an extensive background in the innovative CPG industry, they are no strangers to scaling billion-dollar brands and portfolios. With anxiety levels skyrocketing to all-time highs, they have identified a breakthrough approach to helping people deal with their everyday stresses through the plant-based benefits of cannabis. Based in NYC, JADED CBD is an elevated wellness brand built to defy stigmas and empower a world more equitable for all. All products are intentionally formulated to be safe, effective, and high-quality (without the “high”). JADED donates 5% of all profits to organizations that empower women and drive meaningful systemic change.
