The seeds for entrepreneurship were planted in Detroit native Reagan Gomez when she was just 14 years old. It was on the set of the 1990 TV show The Parent “Hood, as the young actress observed her co-star, Robert Townsend, not only work in front of the camera,...
Growing up in Haiti and later as a teenager in the US, Marie Jean-Baptise always knew she wanted to create something different, although she didn’t know what that something was. There was a part of her that dreamt of be a fashion designer — or an...
Wanona Satcher describes herself as a child who was thoughtful, “geeky,” and one who never followed status quo. The Atlanta native thought dolls were ridiculous, eschewing them and using them as speed bumps within the neighborhoods she built while playing...
April Dinwoodie is the adoptive daughter of a loving family in Rhode Island, a family she says created a center of gravity for her, a safe space. While Dinwoodie, who now lives in Harlem, New York, is grateful for a home where she felt grounded, accepted and loved,...
Shantrelle P. Lewis has always been a woman of vision. From the time she was a little girl growing up in her beloved New Orleans — assertive, ambitious, clear that she could do anything — Shantrelle was calling in the law of attraction, placing posters of...