Name: LGBTQ Business/Professional/Community Leaders Networking (Pittsfield, MA)
Start: 2025-03-19T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-11-19T19:30:00-04:00
Location: WANDER Berkshires

$LGBTQ Business\/Professional\/Community Leaders Networking (Pittsfield, MA)$

Join LGBTQ business, professional & community leaders for monthly social gathering w/ panel on Berks queer business past, present, & future
About this Event

Join Berkshire regional queer-owned business leaders, professionals, and community organization leaders in this social networking event at Wander Berkshires co-sponsored by Massachusetts LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce, Berkshire Magazine, & Q-MoB to help business, professional, and community leaders have a monthly space (every 3rd Wednesday) to get to know one another and briefly learn about one another's priorities and upcoming events. While this event is primarily for for business, professional, & community leaders who identify as being part of the LGBTQ+ community, allies who are publicly supportive of our community may attend.

This kickoff event on 3/19 will also include a brief panel on the past, present, and future of LGBTQ businesses in the Berkshires with the following speakers:

PAST: Jason Vivori, Curator at the Berkshire Museum and one of the founders & long-time board members of Berkshire Stonewall Community Coalition, the oldest LGBTQ organization in the region, who will share some stories of amazing queer-owned businesses from the past.

PRESENT: Jay Santangelo, Owner of Wander Berkshires, a new coffee house and community-building space that has been at the center of a lot of recent innovation in the Berkshire LGBTQ community

FUTURE: Angie Montalvo-Greene, Membership Coordinator for the Massachusetts LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce, who will talk about all the exciting and important activities and initiatives the chamber is kicking off all over the state and in the Berkshire region.

DIRECTIONS & PARKING: To find Wander Berkshires go into the alley that is off Depot St between McKay & North St. There is free parking at Tito's Mexican or in the city parking lot at the corner of Depot St & McKay St.

CARPOOLING/RIDE-SHARE: If you need a ride or are open to carpooling, please indicate that when you are registering, & our ride coordinator will try to match you with people nearby who are interested in carpooling or offering rides.

CONTACTIN US DAY OF EVENT: If on the day of the event you cannot join us or have trouble finding the event, please call or text the co-hosts Bart at 503-734-6508 or Jay at 413-344-4468