What it means to be a member.
One standard, applied the same way in every state and every domain. This is who WEC is for, how you join, where you land, and what the circle will expect of you once you are in the room.
Senior women leaders, held to one bar.
WEC is intentionally selective by seniority and open across industries, functions, and fields. Admittance follows shared criteria developed by WEC leadership and applied consistently across every geography and domain, keeping each circle senior, peer-level, and diverse in perspective.
Seniority
Senior Director level and above, or equivalent influence in your field. The bar is about the weight of the role, not the size of the title.
Character
Integrity, authenticity and reciprocity. Every circle runs on candour, and candour only survives in a room where those three are assumed.
Presence
A willingness to show up and stay. Membership is voluntary and unpaid, so the circle is held together by attendance rather than by an invoice.
Reciprocity
As much given as taken. Members bring live problems and offer honest counsel in return, and no one leaves a circle having only received.
Four steps, and a person at every one.
No automated screen and no waiting list. An application is read by a lead, and the decision comes back with a name attached.
Apply
Tell us about your role, your domain and what you are hoping a circle will give you.
Review
Your application is reviewed against the same criteria every member has met, with no exceptions made by geography.
Placement
Your initial placement is based on where you are, but membership is never a single room. Every member is free to join any circle, whether traveling, relocating, or drawn to a domain.
Join the circle
You are introduced to your circle, and through it into the wider national network.
Placed once, never confined.
Your initial placement follows where you are. It is a starting point rather than a boundary: every member is free to join any circle, whether traveling, relocating, or drawn to a domain in her field.
Chapter Circles
Circles organized by geography. A state circle anchors WEC's local roots under a volunteer State Lead; a metro circle keeps peers within reach, close enough to meet often.
Domain Circles
National circles organized by industry or function rather than geography, for leaders navigating the same specific terrain.
Chapter Circles (30)
Arizona
Marlo Lyons
Orange County
Avni A. Sheth, PharmD
San Francisco/East Bay
Divya Yerraguntla
Colorado
Bettina Papirio-Faerber
Fairfield County
Lori Thomas
District of Columbia
Sonal Scindia
Fort Lauderdale
Mari Mitrani, MD, PhD
Tampa
Dr. Linette Dawson
Illinois
Lola Eniolorunda
Indiana
Dr. Vivian Cintron
Montgomery & Prince George’s Counties
Terry Adirim, MD, MPH, MBA
Cambridge/Newton
Suzanne Biscotti
South Shore/Cape Cod Metro
Kelly Romanovicz, Nicole Bliss
West and Central Massachusetts
Jenn Artura
New York
Susan Kaplow, Teresa Low
Charlotte
Lucy Pearman
Raleigh
Olivia Nadasan, Renee Sprole
Oklahoma
Amy Raymond
Pennsylvania
Erika Dinnie, Keerthi Reddy
Texas
Anu Mandapati
Richmond
Vijaya Raghunathan
Domain Circles (7)
AI & Innovation
Jennifer Borchardt, Victoria Vojnovich, PhD
Board Leadership
Naomi Kent
Career Transition
Dr. Dana McDonald
Entrepreneurs & Founders
Kenyetta Hall
Fractional Leaders
Rae Boone
Travel & Experiences
Melissa Stenger
Wealth and Venture
Yenvy Truong
Metro circles open inside a state as density justifies them, and new Domain Circles start when enough members are navigating the same terrain.
The circle asks something of you.
WEC gatherings are designed for trusted peer exchange rather than open-ended networking. Guided by the Signature WEC Framework, members come to share candidly, offer perspective, support one another, and give as much as they receive. A shared structure and code create the trust and focus for every conversation to lead somewhere meaningful.
A code that holds in every room.
- Confidentiality
- What is shared within WEC stays within WEC. Personal and professional disclosures are not repeated, forwarded or screenshotted.
- Celebration
- Recognize and amplify what other members achieve. Support is active here, not merely available on request.
- Authenticity
- Engage with honesty and openness. Vulnerability is what makes the room worth attending, and it is met in kind.
- Respect for boundaries
- Participate in a way that honors each member's time, balance and space, including your own.
- No solicitation
- WEC is not a platform for selling, recruiting or self-promotion. Professional updates belong in the spaces set aside for them.
The full text lives in the Operating Guidelines, which every member agrees to on joining.
We See. We Support. We Rise.
Membership is free.
WEC is a volunteer-based community. There are no dues, no fundraising and no paid memberships, and leadership at every level is unpaid. This may evolve as the community grows.
If it ever does change, existing members will hear it from their State Lead first, never from an invoice.
Still deciding?
If the fit is what you are unsure about, write to contact@we-c.org and a State Lead will reply.
