Buffalo State to host celebration for award-winning entrepreneur

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Buffalo State University will celebrate graduate Robin Lazzara after she was named the 2025 New York Small Business Development Center Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

She graduated with a degree in television and film arts.

Lazzara has other awards under her belt, including the 2023 SBA Buffalo District Young Entrepreneur Award and a 2025 Television Editing Award, and this latest one will be honored by the university she graduated from.

Lazzara’s latest award will be recognized at 10 a.m. on July 29 at Buffalo State’s Butler Library. The ceremony will feature remarks from university representatives, the U.S. Small Business Administration, the NYSBDC and Assemblyman Jonathan Rivera’s office.

Lazzara has worked as production secretary of various feature films like A Quiet Place: Part II and Nightmare Alley, and she was selected as one of 14 award recipients from a network of 25,000 clients. She’s also the founder of the company Glow Video LLC, a woman-owned production studio dedicated to telling inclusive stories for clients in Western New York.

Owen Klein is an intern for the summer of 2025 at WIVB. He is a rising senior at Penn State.