BusinessWest to Celebrate 2025 Women of Impact Tonight

SPRINGFIELD — Anticipation is rising for the eighth annual Women of Impact awards gala, hosted by BusinessWest. The sold-out event will take place tonight, Dec. 9, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at Twin Hills Country Club in Longmeadow.

Profiles of the Women of Impact class of 2025 can be read in the Oct. 27 issue of BusinessWest and at businesswest.com. This year’s honorees are:

• Tara Brewster, vice president of Business Development and Director of Philanthropy at Greenfield Savings Bank;

• Ayanna Crawford, president of AC Consulting and Media Services;

• Tracy Friedenberg, executive director of Bacon Wilson, P.C.;

• Rania Kfuri, vice president for Philanthropy, Sales, and Marketing at Glenmeadow;

• Chelsea Kline, executive director of Cancer Connection;

• Angelina Ramirez, CEO of Stavros Center for Independent Living;

• Amanda Sanderson, executive director of Resilience Center of Franklin County; and

• Sarah Rose Stack, lecturer of Public Relations at UMass Amherst.

The event emcees are Dina McMahon, morning show co-host for the Kellogg Krew on 94.7fm WMAS; and LaTonia Monroe Naylor, chief business educator at Monroe Naylor Consulting, LLC, president and CEO of Parent Villages, and a 2024 BusinessWest Woman of Impact.

The eighth annual Women of Impact program is presented by Country Bank and TommyCar Auto Group, sponsored by Bacon Wilson, P.C., and supported by Feel Good Shop Local and 94.7fm WMAS.