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We invite you to join us in collaboration with Dress for Success of Luzerne County on International Women's Day 2022. This luncheon is an amazing opportunity to connect with other incredible women in our region. As our tickets for the main dining room sold out quickly, we have limited tickets available for the side room of the West Moreland Club. 

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming International Women's Day Luncheon Keynote Speaker: Kira Kinsman!

Kira Kinsman is an architect, and principal and partner at WKL Architecture, a firm in Wilkes-Barre, PA that she co-founded 30 years ago. Today WKL is a recognized design practice across Eastern Pennsylvania, and focuses on complex institutional projects in higher education, K-through-12, and historic renovation. Kira was born and raised to age 12 in Paris, France to American parents. She is a 1976 graduate of E.L. Meyers High school in Wilkes-Barre and a graduate of Brown University with degrees in Art & Architectural History and Civil Engineering; Kira studied architecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning in New York City. She is a former member of the Pennsylvania State Architect’s Licensure Board, and a past President of the Northeastern PA Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. From 2014-2021 Kira was the lead architect on the new Wilkes-Barre High School.

Locally, Kira is currently a board member at the Northeastern Pennsylvania Rainbow Alliance and at the Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce Business and Industry Board. In Philadelphia Kira is the board co-chair at the William Way Community Center, one of the country’s larger organizations addressing the needs and concerns of that city’s LGBTQ community. Kira lives and practices in both Wilkes-Barre and center city Philadelphia, and enjoys summers and time off with family at a cottage in the western Poconos.