We are gearing up for Power of the Purse 2012! Our friends at Webster Bank hosted a Kick-Off breakfast for planners, sponsors, Purse-o-nalities and designers earlier this month. It was a great event and we are so excited to be working and collaborating with all these incredible women! We'd like to thank our host Maria Freburg at Webster Bank and our friends and partners who were able to join us:

Shelby DeLucia Burnett, MBIA, GIWC volunteer

Barbara Edwards, 2012 Purse-o-nality, Westchester County African American Advisory Board

Kathleen Tierney, 2012 Purse-o-nalit, Chubb

Diane Wilhelm, KeyBank

Meryl Lefkowitz, Bloomingdales

Deborah Slaner Larkin, 2012 Purse-o-nality, USTA Serves

Nina-Michelle Roberts, 2011 and 2012 Designer and GIWC Board Member

Jody Rollins, 2011 Purse-o-nality, Chubb

Patricia Mulqueen, ConEdison

Tricia Nestfield, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Jessica Stein, US Congresswoman Nita Lowey

and Lucy Chan, IBM

Thanks for joining us for breakfast, and for all of your support to Westchester's girls!