{"id":39878,"date":"2025-11-20T19:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/39878\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:05:14","slug":"amplify-class-of-2025-graduation-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/39878\/","title":{"rendered":"Amplify Class of 2025 graduation ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership Northeast recognized its\u00a0Amplify: Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 during graduation ceremonies on Wednesday at Wyoming Seminary\u2019s Kirby Center for the Creative Arts.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the PPL Foundation, the Amplify program is comprised of 30 women who participated in developing progressive leadership competencies including leader identity, emotional intelligence and advanced communication skills among others. Over the course of seven sessions, they addressed real-time challenges for women in leadership, financial literacy, policy change and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Amplify is a collaboration between Leadership Northeast, the Greater Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Christine Kiesinger of CEK Communication.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sara Peperno, left, of Old Forge, and Mary Kay Pivovarnik...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Sara Peperno, left, of Old Forge, and Mary Kay Pivovarnik of Scranton, a 2022 graduate, during the Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 Graduation Ceremony at the Kirby Center for Creative Arts in Kingston on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (JASON ARDAN \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sarah Harris of Dallas talks with a group of attendees...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CVC-L-LEADERSHIP-1120-2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Harris of Dallas talks with a group of attendees during the Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 Graduation Ceremony at the Kirby Center for Creative Arts in Kingston on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (JASON ARDAN \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Attendees chat during the Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 Graduation...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CVC-L-LEADERSHIP-1120-6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Attendees chat during the Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 Graduation Ceremony at the Kirby Center for Creative Arts in Kingston on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (JASON ARDAN \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Amanda Murdock of Kingston, a 2025 graduate, chats with a...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CVC-L-LEADERSHIP-1120-4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amanda Murdock of Kingston, a 2025 graduate, chats with a group during the Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 Graduation Ceremony at the Kirby Center for Creative Arts in Kingston on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (JASON ARDAN \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Attendees chat during the Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 Graduation...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CVC-L-LEADERSHIP-1120-8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Attendees chat during the Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 Graduation Ceremony at the Kirby Center for Creative Arts in Kingston on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (JASON ARDAN \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Courtney Deignan of Forty Fort, a 2023 graduate, talks with...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CVC-L-LEADERSHIP-1120-3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtney Deignan of Forty Fort, a 2023 graduate, talks with Linda Rowe of Wilkes-Barre during the Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 Graduation Ceremony at the Kirby Center for Creative Arts in Kingston on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (JASON ARDAN \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Attendees chat during the Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 Graduation...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CVC-L-LEADERSHIP-1120-7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Attendees chat during the Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 Graduation Ceremony at the Kirby Center for Creative Arts in Kingston on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (JASON ARDAN \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 7<\/p>\n<p>Sara Peperno, left, of Old Forge, and Mary Kay Pivovarnik of Scranton, a 2022 graduate, during the Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 Graduation Ceremony at the Kirby Center for Creative Arts in Kingston on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (JASON ARDAN \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leadership Northeast recognized its\u00a0Amplify: Women\u2019s Leadership Class of 2025 during graduation ceremonies on Wednesday at Wyoming Seminary\u2019s Kirby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,802],"class_list":["post-39878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-cvc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}