CWC Member News – December 2021
Congratulations to the CWC members who were elected to the CWC Board of Directors at last week’s Holiday Party & Annual Meeting:
– Jennifer Crookes Carpenter – Development Officer and Board Member, Night Fall
– Jennifer DiBella – Partner, CFM Law
– Debra Seay – Senior Associate/Senior Project Manager. Amenta Emma Architects
– Marissa Pepe Turrell – Director, Marcum LLP
And many thanks to those members who have finished their term on the board:
– Jackie Bernstein
– Brenda Larkin – Private Wealth Advisor, Goldberg Larkin
– Amy Miller – Financial Advisor, Private Capital Group
– Michelle Seagull – Commissioner, Department of Consumer Protection
And more member news….
Peggy Atherlay has joined McPherson Strategies as Account Director.
Peggy Boissoneau’s travel photography is being exhibited at the Environmental Center on the grounds of the Kellogg Osborne Homestead in Deby through the end of December. The Kellogg Osborne Homestead is one of 14 properties that are a part of Connecticut’s Women’s Heritage Trail. Their current holiday tour (which ends Saturday) is a “Holiday Tribute to the Suffragists”.
Maureen Funke has started a new business this year, Living your Qi. It’s a Qigong (pronounced Chee-Gong) Energy Healing practice which includes energy healings, moving meditation lessons (private and group) and space clearing work. Here is her Facebook page.
Kelly Kennedy has taken on a new role at UConn. She is the Director of Transformative Learning for the UConn Business School at all four campuses. Read more about that here.
Mechelle Olórtegui has joined the League of Conservation Voters as Director of Development Partnerships – New England.
Have news you would like to share? Please send it my way – mzeman@cwcouncil.org.
As we end this year, let’s welcome all those who joined and re-joined CWC this year:
– Emily Bailey – Principal, One Digital Health
– Megan Budd – Director, Marcum LLP
– Mary Beth Cardin – President & Chief Financial Officer, PNT Data Corp.
– Jill Cianciola – Attorney, Rothenberg & Cianciola
– Jody Cox – Real Estate Broker, Coldwell Banker
– Kate Dion – Partner, Robinson+Cole
– Suzanne Feola – Director of Development, Hartford Area Habitat for Humanity
– Kim Kann – Senior Director, Public Relations & Corporate Communications, ConnectiCare
– Christy Kovel – Director of Public Policy, Alzheimer’s Association of CT
– Glandina (Dina) Morris – Assistant Director, The Women’s Advancement Institute, University of Hartford
– Alisa Picerno – Alliances by Alisa Media Relations
– Nicole Bouvier Pilon – Directing Partner Personal Lines – Bouvier Insurance
– Allison Poirier – Attorney, Kahan, Kerensky, Caposella LLP
– Laura Renfro – Laura M. Renfro, LMFT
– Cynthia Rider – Managing Director, Hartford Stage
– Corinne Santos – Consulting Business Recruiting Senior Manager, PwC
– Elizabeth (Liz) Strole – Attorney, Rome Clifford, Katz & Koerner
– Carol Quinn Toomey – Director, Accenture
– Carmen Walker – Principal Owner, Creative Images LLC
– Katy White – CPA, Moses Tax Group
– Susan Winkler – Executive Director/VP, Ct Insurance & Financial Services/MetroHartford Alliance