Time Is Running Out to Purchase Tickets for 2024 Women of Impact Gala

SPRINGFIELD — The deadline to purchase tickets to BusinessWest’s seventh annual Women of Impact award gala is Monday, Nov. 25. The event will take place on Thursday, Dec. 5 at 5:30 p.m. at Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel. Tickets cost $95 per person, and tables of 10 are available. Click here to purchase tickets.

The awards presentation will feature two dynamic co-emcees: Dina McMahon, 94.7 WMAS Kellogg Krew Morning Show co-host; and Shannon Rudder, president and CEO of Martin Luther King Jr. Family Services and a 2024 BusinessWest Difference Makers honoree.

The 2024 Women of Impact, profiled in the Oct. 28 issue of BusinessWest and at businesswest.com, are:

• Alison Berman, council director of Girls on the Run Western Massachusetts;

• Dianne Fuller Doherty, co-founder of the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts and former director of the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center’s Regional Office;

• JoAnne Finck, president of Friends of Cooley Dickinson;

• Kimberley Lee, chief of Creative Strategy and Development at MiraVista Behavioral Health Center;

• Megan McDonough, executive director of Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity;

• LaTonia Monroe Naylor, chief business educator at Monroe Naylor Consulting, LLC and president and CEO of Parent Villages;

• Kristi Reale, partner at Meyers Brothers Kalicka, P.C.; and

• Dr. Shirley Jackson Whitaker, nephrologist, artist, and filmmaker.

The seventh annual Women of Impact program is presented by TommyCar Auto Group and Country Bank, and sponsored by Cooley Dickinson Hospital.