On a glittering evening that hummed with the thrum of purpose and power, The WIE Suite once again orchestrated a constellation of intimate dinners across the country, drawing together a handpicked cadre of the city’s most formidable women. Entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and power brokers slipped into candlelit private homes to engage in something far more vital than small talk. The topic: Inheriting the Future: Money, Power, and the Great Wealth Shift—a theme as urgent as it is provocative. Against the backdrop of legacy wealth in transition and the accelerating rise of female economic influence, conversations flowed with rare candor, tackling the mechanics of financial agency, the politics of succession, and the responsibility of shaping the world not just as beneficiaries, but as architects of the future.
Our thanks go out to our sponsors: The Culinistas, One Hope, and Urban Stems. And to the hosts of Table for Eight, Priscila Hawthorne, Sonja Lutz, Zoe Fairbourn, Liz Stein, Mariel O'Brien, Teal Newland, Alison Monk, Karen Duffy, Genevieve Roth, GraceAnn Bennett + Carol Schuster and Kerry Docherty + Kathryn Everett.