SRQ: Living Local in Sarasota and Bradenton Florida

Please join us for the

9th Annual SRQ Together We Roar
Leadership and Awards Luncheon

Friday, October 25 2024
Michael's On East Ballroom

PopUp Boutiques: 10:30am
Registration 11am
Program Starts at 11:30am

SRQ MEDIA, powered by the Women Who Roar Initiative, will host the 9th Annual Women Who Roar: Together We Roar Leadership and Awards Luncheon on Friday October 25, 2024 at the Michael's on East. We will recognize all of the ambassadors of the Women Who Roar Leadership Circle, the new 2024 Women Who Roar nominees and will announce the honorees who will be inducted into the esteemed 2024 Women Who Roar (WWR) Leadership Circle this year. Please join us to honor women who make a difference in our community.

We formed the Women Who Roar Initiative as a year-round program engaging the participants in the annual Women Who Roar Competition to create highly-dynamic personal networking that catalyzes community leadership through the science and art of mentorship. Every year, we host the Together We Roar Leadership and Awards Luncheon recognizing the past years’ Women Who Roar Leadership Circle Class and announcing the honorees of the current year's Women Who Roar Competition comprising the new inductees to the Leadership Circle.

Announcing Our 2024 Trailblazer Award Recipient Kate White and
2024 Illuminator Award Recipient Elyse Delucci.

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Special Advance Ticket Pricing — Closes on October 1, 2024

Full Table Sponsorship (8) | $1000, when purchased before 10/1
Half Table Sponsorship (4) | $500, when purchased before 10/1
Individual Ticket | $75, when purchased before 10/1

Regular Ticket Pricing — From October 2, 2024.
Ticketing closes on October 18 at midnight.

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Half Table Sponsorship (4) | $650, when purchased after 10/1
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Announcing This Year's 2024 Trailblazer Award and Illuminator Award Honorees

Kate White H

WOMEN WHO ROAR
2024 TRAILBLAZER AWARD RECIPIENT
Kate White

SRQ MEDIA will present the 2023 Trailblazer Award to Kate White, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of eighteen novels of suspense and former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan. Her books include ten standalone psychological thrillers, including The Last Time She Saw Him (2024) and eight Bailey Weggins mysteries. A former Glamour magazine cover girl, Kate spent the first part of her career in the magazine business, eventually running several different magazines. For fourteen years she was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, which under her became the mostsuccessful magazine in single copy sales in the U.S. Though she loved her magazine career, she decided to leave ten years ago to concentrate full-time on another passion: writing suspense fiction.

Kate’s first mystery, If Looks Could Kill, was a Kelly Ripa Book Club pick, a #1 bestseller on Amazon, and an instant New York Times bestseller. She has been nominated for an International Thriller Writers Award in the fiction category, and her books have been published in over 30 countries. Like many female mystery authors, Kate fell in love with the genre after reading her first Nancy Drew book, in her case The Secret of Redgate Farm.

Kate is a frequent speaker at libraries, book conferences, and organizations, and has appeared on many television shows, including The Today Show, CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, Morning Joe, and CNN’s Quest Means Business. She is also the author of several bestselling career books, including I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This and the ground-breaking Wall Street Journal bestseller, Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do.

Kate is an avid traveler and enjoys spending each winter with her husband at their home in Uruguay. She holds an honorary doctorate of letters from her alma mater, Union College, where she gave the 2022 commencement address.

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TOGETHER WE ROAR
2024 ILLUMINATOR AWARD RECIPIENT
Elyse Delucci

Elyse Delucci is a New York-based standup comedian and writer. Her comedy material focuses on growing up in a middle class, Italian-American family, her former Wall Steet career, intercultural marriage, divorce, food, exhaustion, co-parenting, motherhood and being a fish out of water on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Elyse is a social media influencer with over 330,000 followers and over 60 million views on TikTok and Instagram. She's the creator of the fan-favorite podcast New York Tawk. where she speaks off-the-cuff about recent experiences, current events and her life. The podcast as over 20,000 monthly listeners, 5-star reviews and is available on Apple and Spotify. In 2021, she was named one of New York's Funniest in the New York Comedy Festival. She has been featured in the New York Times, New York Post, Business Insider, Cheddar, Ria Intel, Wall Street Journal's "Market Watch" and more.

Elyse is a graduate of St. John's University with graduate programs from Harvard Business School in digital strategy and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business in managerial economics and leadership. She's refreshing, smart, relatable and the best friend you've always wanted. She lives in Manhattan, New York with her two daughters.