Photos: Funny Women…Serious Business Luncheon

Check out scenes from the October 16, 2018, event at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.


On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, the annual Funny Women…Serious Business luncheon brought together 1,800 attendees to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and raised a record-breaking $950,000 to support Rosie’s Place programs for poor and homeless women. Boston news anchors Susan Wornick and Karen Holmes Ward emceed the event, and award-winning Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat, best known for her memoir Brother, I’m Dying, was the featured speaker.

Photos by Leise Jones