SANCTUARY Magazine · March 2025 · by Carol Lippert Gray
The Power of Networking: Ann Cutbill Lenane on Connecting Women In New York City and Beyond
Ann Cutbill Lenane is the subject of the story.
SANCTUARY's featured interview with Ann Cutbill Lenane traces how a playful 2019 taxi ad led her to start Wise and Wonderful Women, a New York network of roughly 2,500 women. She explains the free monthly dinners at her Hudson Yards building, the shift to Zoom during the pandemic and back to in-person events, name tags and bio place cards that ease newcomers in, the group's first retreat, and a volunteer cooking effort for God's Love We Deliver. She is frank about costs and no-shows and offers tips for anyone starting a similar group.
“It’s scary to go into a roomful of people you don’t know.”
Ann Cutbill Lenane, in SANCTUARY Magazine
“I believe people need this physical connection and community.”
Ann Cutbill Lenane, in SANCTUARY Magazine
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