Meet Nine Extraordinary Women Who Are Transforming Sarasota-Manatee (and the World)
These trailblazers have big dreams and fresh ideas.
From redesigning our bayfront to saving the world’s coral to creating the first women’s sports museum, our future is female. Here are nine trailblazing women with big dreams and fresh ideas.
Called The Bay, the project will transform 53 acres of underutilized city waterfront that, up until now, has mostly been a vast parking lot for the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.
Emerge Sarasota began with a handful of members but has grown to about 80 participants who attend the organization’s social mixers, arts outings and volunteer and charity events.
Since Rominiecki's appointment in 2015, visitorship has jumped 36 percent, annual revenues have risen 26 percent and memberships have grown 29 percent.
A record 527 women were running for Congress as of April, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, most of them Democrats. Florida—and Sarasota and Manatee—are following the trend.