Location: Barbetta / 321 W 46th St, New York, NY 10036

Cost: $65

Members only

Treat yourself to a very special lunch in the exceptionally beautiful back room of female-owned Barbetta on Restaurant Row!

Join us in honoring the WMG Woman of the Year Joni Evans! Not only was Joni one of the original founders of the Women’s Media Group in the early 1970s, her publishing career includes serving as Publisher of Simon and Schuster and Random House, and VP and senior literary agent at the William Morris Agency. In the digital age, her entrepreneurial spirit led her to founding wowOwow.com with Mary Wells Lawrence, Lesley Stahl, and Liz Smith, and co-founding www.PureWow.com a lifestyle website for women which grew out of wowOwow.

Joni Evans will be  interviewed by our very own Dee Dee DeBartlo. And we assure you that our honoree will provide inspiring stories about her incredible career speak about how the landscape for women in media has changed over the years and highlight what it means to be a powerful woman in the workplace. 

Bring a book wrapped in a plain manila envelope and let your tablemates know what makes it special and why they'll love it.

Our networking lunch is always a high point of the year that affirms our bond continuity and growth as a community. 

This is also our annual business meeting where we vote in the new board, welcome new members, and ask for new committee volunteers.

We look forward to seeing you there!

This lunch is for members only.

Judy Gold, Maeve Higgins, Chloé Hilliard, Gabi Conti, Charlyne Yi, Sarah Dooley, + Terri Trespicio! To benefit WMG scholarships!!

We all need a good laugh right about now, so come out and have lots of them as these amazing female authors/comedians take the stage for a special event in support of Women’s Media Group fellowship/scholarship program! The night starts with a networking cocktail hour that includes 2 drinks and delicious passed hors d’oeuvres. Then we’ll enjoy tons of fresh comedy from this super lit line-up!

Judy Gold (Author of "Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians We Are All in Trouble" and host of "Kill Me Now" podcast)

Maeve Higgins (Author of "Aliens of Extraordinary Ability" and co-host of "Mothers of Invention" podcast)

Chloé Hilliard (Author of "F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me" and host of "Social Misfits" podcast)

Gabi Conti (Author of "Twenty Guys You Date in Your Twenties" and writer for Cosmopolitan)

Charlyne Yi (Author of "You Can't Kill Me Twice: (So Please Treat Me Right)" and actress)

Sarah Dooley (Author of "Are You My Uber?: A Parody" and songwriter)

Terri Trespicio (Emcee)

CAUSE: WMG’s Fellowship/Scholarship program, which supports young women of color who are interested in publishing careers. These include a stipend for fellows from City College of New York's Publishing Certificate Program; tuition, room and board for the Columbia University Publishing Course Scholarship; and a scholarship at the NYU School of Professional Studies Center for Publishing Summer Publishing Institute. 

BOOKS: Will be for sale at the event

GUESTS WELCOME