SL_FEATURE_LEADING_LADIES_2019_Feature 9 / 12 / 19 11 : 02 AM Page 3 Nancy Abramson Wolfson As president of Bryn Mawr AND Andrea Hospital since 2002 , Andrea Melissa Dietz Gilbert oversees overall Gilbert responsibility for the hospital , Fighter . The term certainly including day - to - day opera - applies to the pair of Nancy tions , strategic planning , Abramson Wolfson and physician recruitment , Melissa Dietz . In 2015 , the fundraising and finan - tandem made good on a cial operations . Her promise to serve as a force leadership has been for good in the world by reflected in the many taking on an issue that accolades the hospital affects every American : has received including cancer . Their shared desire being named to U.S . to make a difference spawn - News & World Report’s ed Philly Fights Cancer , a phil - list of the Best Hospitals anthropic juggernaut that has in the region . She has also helped to fund life - saving clinical helped lead the 125 - year - trials and research at the Penn Medicine’s old hospital into the future . Abramson Cancer Center . The Blue Bell - based Earlier this year , the storied hospital organization , which Wolfson and Dietz serve as co - chairs at - started a new chapter in its history as a large , now hosts an annual celebrity - studded gala at the modernized , fully reimagined campus well equipped to meet Philadelphia Navy Yard to raise awareness and generate the the healthcare needs of future generations . The result : a funds needed to fuel the cause . Now entering its fifth year , facility completely focused on the patient experience , from the event features world - class entertainers — past headliners patient flow and privacy to campus navigation and an envi - have included Jerry Seinfeld , Maroon 5 , and John Legend — ronment designed to stimulate healing . In the mark of an all to encourage , inspire , and thank the sold - out crowd effective leader , Gilbert is quick to credit the hundreds of of benefactors for doing their part to brush back cancer . In people involved in bringing the multiyear , multimillion - dollar its first four years , the event has raised an astounding project to completion . $ 26 million . Donna Jennifer Joseph Ewanciw It would be difficult to find someone with a bigger soft For some reason , it’s spot for animals than Jen - rare to walk into the nifer Joseph.An entrepreneur kitchen of a fine restau - at heart , Joseph remembers rant and see a woman struggling to strike a balance taking the lead as head between doing the work she chef . The regrettable trend has loved and spending time with begun to shift , just as it has in Breck , her Labrador - Weimaraner nearly every other profession , but mix — so she made a change . She change has come too slowly . Donna Ewanciw opened Dog Town , a retail boutique , has been an exception . She’s been working in kitchens for dog park , and daycare / boarding facility , with more than 30 years , with much of that time at the helm of locations in Colmar and New Britain . It wasn’t enough to help dogs highly regarded restaurants throughout the Philadelphia area — and their humans , not with so many dogs in need of homes and at Moonstruck in the city’s Fox Chase neighborhood , Radice in risk of being euthanized . So she started a nonprofit , Dog Town Blue Bell , and , most recently , Vela , in the heart of Doylestown . Rescue , in 2013 to help at - risk dogs — and cats , too , through an As chef - owner of Vela , Ewanciw has created a dining experience affiliation with another local nonprofit , The Cat Shack . Each Dog that may feel familiar to fans of her work at Moonstruck and Town location has an adoption center , which pulls adoptable dogs Radice , but it’s also entirely unique — traditional Italian dishes , from local shelters , gets them healthy , and then helps them find with an elegant dining room that has a pronounced appetite their “ forever homes . ” Joseph is also a relentless fundraiser , by way for family - like warmth and hospitality . As far as jobs go , Ewanciw of cleverly themed festivals , barbecues , and other events — St . Pitties says she can’t imagine doing anything else . The nature of the Day in March , for example , a reference to “ pit bulls , ” the umbrella work , the art of it all , the rhythm of the kitchen — these things term for many of the dogs the rescue helps — designed to raise make her feel energized , excited , and , in a word , alive . money for the rescue and , in turn , save more lives . SUBURBANLIFEMAGAZINE.COM SEPTEMBER 2019 44 |