Since Women of Cincy began in January, we've highlighted 14 amazing Cincinnati women and expanded our team to include almost 20 writers, photographers, and volunteers. Over the next two weeks, we'll be revisiting some of our very first Women of Cincy.
Read MoreI’m totally in awe the moment I set foot inside the Play Library. The stress I had over a traffic jam just moments before melts away as I gape at the miles of quirky black-and-white drawings on the walls, a perfect backdrop for hundreds of toys, costumes, games, and activities in every color imaginable.
Read MoreTracy Brumfield has stumbled and fallen, but her life is on the rise.
Having landed a People’s Liberty Haile Fellowship, the 50-year-old former heroin addict is creating a monthly newspaper for Cincinnati’s incarcerated population. Called RISE, the newspaper is intended to be a resource and inspiration to people wanting to pick themselves up out of addiction and incarceration.
Read MoreIt's a typical afternoon at Union Hall: Creatives are bent over laptops in this corner and that. We're sitting in the kitchen on the second floor and occasionally someone will traipse down one of the mismatched staircases, wondering if the rain has let up. Miranda Millard pushes aside a stack of notebooks and we start chatting. It doesn't take long for her big laugh to fill the room, and we know we're in for a fun one.
Read MoreOn a sunny spring afternoon, Women of Cincy caught up with Kiana Trabue, self-proclaimed passionate and intelligent visionary, in Washington Park. We walked down the block, and the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati Executive Director of Community Health gave us a tour of the newly renovated Central Parkway YMCA branch before we settled into the building’s chapel to discuss health, diversity, faith, and making a difference in the community.
Read MoreKelly Dolan, co-founder of Ingage Partners and Thrive Cincinnati, is a no-nonsense entrepreneur who has set out to redefine terms like "career" and "the bottom line." She invited us out to the Thrive office on Riverside Drive to chat. The space, which used to house an iron-works factory, calls to life a metallic motif in the spirit that iron sharpens iron.
Read MoreHandzy Shop + Studio co-owners, Brittney Braemer and Suzy King, are two ladies who embody the entrepreneurial spirit through a commitment to each other and their definition of success. It was warm enough outside to leave the door open last week when we joined them in their shop to talk about the idea origins of Handzy, work-life balance, and their insights for entering the entrepreneurial space.
Read MoreMotherhood: a messy, exhausting, testing, rewarding, hilarious sort of journey that pushes you to be better than you ever thought you could be. Moms, you probably spend about 99% of your time thinking about your kids, work, to-do lists, and laundry, and hoping you’ll get a chance to sleep in between. Take a minute to enjoy this day and enjoy being you! Below, each of our featured Women of Cincy shares a little bit about her mom.
Read MoreIzzi Krombholz: editor-in-chief of Women in Rock magazine, avid concertgoer, versatile musician, and member of multiple Cincinnati-based bands. On a windy Sunday, we sat down and learned about her passion for music, the role of women in the scene, and her aspirations for Women in Rock over coffee, bloody marys, and banana daiquiris at Northside Yacht Club.
Read MoreRobin Sayers is a mom of three boys – enough said, right? – and an entrepreneur with Trades of Hope fair-trade fashion company. The sun streamed through the windows of Coffee Please in Madeira last Saturday as we talked about empowering women all around the world, leaving your comfort zone on a daily basis, and of course, gorgeous accessories.
Read MoreAll of us can see problems in our neighborhoods. Many of us will talk about those problems. But few of us throw our lives toward fixing them as Libby Hunter did when she co-founded WordPlay Cincy, a Northside-based nonprofit organization that fights poverty through creativity and communication.
Read MoreRobyn Mahaffey met with Women of Cincy over a delicious blueberry muffin at the North College Hill Perkins last Sunday morning. She’s a woman of equal parts grace and grind, who gives everything she has to her family of five and her eighth-grade students.
Read MoreWe met with Alyssa McClanahan, co-founder of Kunsthous and University of Cincinnati professor, at Iris BookCafe and Gallery in Over-the-Rhine. We headed out back to enjoy the quaint outdoor area and talk history, feminism, and more.
Read MoreWe met with Nicole Lee, founder of Warrior Moms, single mother of three, and beauty entrepreneur. Here is a woman who’s not afraid to be proud of a life well lived. Over coffee at Pleasant Ridge’s Coffee Exchange, her words are as sassy as her smile.
Read MoreWe met with Hillary Copsey, a Norwood resident and journalist who recently founded the newsletter Make America Read Again, at Listermann Brewing Company. We grabbed a few pale ales and a ginger beer and chatted about developing a culture of reading, raising bookworms, and more.
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