Rosie's Place has been part of the fabric of the Greater Boston community since 1974 as the first women’s shelter in the United States. Rosie’s Place provides unconditional help and hope to more than 13 thousand poor and homeless women every year.
Rosie’s Place’s annual luncheon, Funny Women…Serious Business takes place on November 6th at the Menino Convention and Exhibition Center. This year the featured speaker is Rachel Louise Snyder, an award-winning author and investigative journalist whose work explores the causes and consequences of the violence that impacts women. Her powerful memoir Women We Buried, Women We Burned recounts her own story of loss and survival. When eight-year-old Rachel’s mother died, the years that followed were traumatic, culminating in her becoming homeless at age 16. Living out of her car and relying on strangers, Rachel eventually found her way to college and went on to travel the globe.