8 Local Women Honored With YWCA’s Salute to Outstanding Women

Each year, YWCA Mohawk Valley honors amazing women throughout our community. These women have made significant contributions to the Mohawk Valley, and for that, they deserve to be recognized.

Since the beginning of Salute to Outstanding Women in 1989, YWCA has honored 248 incredible women from Oneida and Herkimer counties. The award officially welcomes each year’s new honorees to our Salute Academy, a collective of all the women we have honored through the decades..

Each of these women have made incredible contributions on our shared community and will leave a positive impact for years to come. We are proud to have them join our YWCA MV family!

Here's the lucky ladies being honored this year:

Danielle Padula: Business & Industry
Natasha Homa: Education
Juli Webster: Entrepreneur
Amy Jennings: Healthcare
Marianne Buttenschon: Human and Public Service
Sophia O’Neill: Outstanding Youth
Oneka Roach-Campbell, Esq.: Social Justice
Dawn Roller: STEAM

The ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 21 at Hart’s Hill Inn in Whitesboro, and tickets can be purchased by visiting ywcamv.org/Salute.

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The Salute serves as YWCA MV’s largest annual fundraiser. All proceeds directly benefit the agency’s life-saving free, confidential, and 24-hour domestic and sexual violence crisis services.

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