Tampa Council

Gulfeagle Supply hosted the NWiR Tampa Council January meeting. Jill Buhler-VP, Human Resources at Gulfeagle, started off the meeting by introducing herself and sharing her “How I got into Roofing Story.” She is truly a strong, inspiring woman. The meeting focused on a donation drive benefiting The Junior League of Tampa’s Alliance for Period Supplies. Together the group donated over 20,000 period supply products making a huge difference in our community combatting period poverty in Hillsborough [...]

January 19, 2023, at 11 am-1 pm Gulfeagle Supply is hosting a lunch community service event collecting period supplies partnering with the Junior League of Tampa. Please bring period supplies to Gulfeagle Supply located at 2900 East 7th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605. Questions please contact Jen Richardson, National Marketing Director for Gulfeagle Supply 813-636-9808 ext 204 February 24, 2023 Lunch Meeting/Education Session from 11 am-1 pm IUEC Local 74 headquarters located at 7805 Professional Place, Tampa, [...]

Eagle Roofing Products hosted the NWIR Tampa Council for an education session and plant tour in November. It was great to meet all the women on their customer service team led by Stacey Seidenstecker; see how concrete tile is made and better understand their strategies to keep lead times from extending out any further due to Hurricane Ian. Hawk Kinney turned the tables on us and asked us to educate them on NWIR’s background, mission, and [...]

NWIR celebrated with the FRSA on their 100th year anniversary in Daytona Beach. The very first FRSA Convention was hosted in Daytona Beach. Thank you to all the ladies who helped set up, work and take down the NWIR trade show booth. We had two special guests-Michelle Boykin with Rackley Roofing our very own National Chair and Ellen Thorp with Meridian Consulting our Executive Director. Thank you to everyone who came to the FRSA NWIR Session: [...]

NWIR Tampa Council did a food drive for kidsPACK Tuesday, May 10th in conjunction with a fun event at the Smash Roof of Tampa Bay. Thank you to our sponsor Eric McKenzie with Siplast. Our members were able to get out a lot of built-up aggression…see photos! Thank you to our generous members for bringing all the non-perishable food to donate to kidsPACK. KidsPACK hope and charity for children is a non-profit organization supported by community [...]

Dr. Jessica Stahl with Ignite presented to the Tampa Council-Understanding Unconscious Bias: The key to creating a more inclusive workforce. She did a fantastic job interacting the members with different scenarios showing how we can be more aware of our unconscious biases. Dr. Stahl explained the difference between our system 1 and system 2 brain function. System 1 is instinctive, fast, automatic, unconscious and emotional. System 2 is reflective, slow, analytical, conscious and rational. Be on [...]

A huge shout out to GAF and Mike Finster for once again hosting the NWIR Tampa Council with a plant tour and lunch. NWIR Tampa Council was invited to tour GAF’s shingle plant in Tampa, FL. Followed by a presentation from Chris Marlatt, Q & A session, and lunch. Thank you for the awesome pink safety vests…made for women! (Note in our picture) GAF supports National Women in Roofing as a Diamond Sponsor and regularly offers [...]