Hear Rochelle Riley – real and raw. She is a columnist for the Detroit Free Press, where she has been a leading voice for children, education, competent government and race since 2000. She makes frequent television and radio appearances, including on National Public Radio and local television and has won numerous national, state and local […]
Promoting Confident, Heroic, Inspiring, Courageous moms. (CHICmomorg.com) Jessica Byrd, mother of two found her passion as a career mom by starting an organization to interact with young mothers to provide them with the tools, necessities, and environment to better raise their children. Jessica firmly believes in not only engaging our children with a positive social environment, but also
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Penny served as Executive Director of City Year Detroit (CYD) from 2001-2015, responsible for Michigan’s largest AmeriCorps program, retiring in 2015. During that period, over 1,000 young adult “corps members” served full time with CYD for up to two years each, providing data-driven all day academic classroom tutoring, mentoring and role modeling to thousands of Detroit’s
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Penny Bailer retired in 2015 after 32 years of nonprofit leadership: 14yrs, Executive Director, City Year Detroit and 17yrs, CEO, Michigan Metro Girl Scout Council, receiving CRAIN’s 2nd annual “Best Managed Nonprofit” award. In 1976, Penny helped Co-Found the DPS Golightly Education Center where her children attended grades 1-8. She served as Founding President of the
Dr. Kenneth L. Harris is the President/CEO of the National Business League, Inc., (formerly the Michigan Black Chamber of Commerce) founded by Dr. Booker T. Washington in 1900, encompassing more than 15,000 members and 365 local leagues, with access to 2.5 million Black-owned businesses across the country. In this podcast, we discuss: 1) History of
For Elizabeth Mays, founder and president of MCS Multimedia, achieving the hallmark of excellence for customers is perhaps her company’s greatest core founding principle and mission. Mays, a millennial, takes great pride in providing the best of services in graphic arts and other media platforms that include digital and offset printing, graphic design, publishing and
This is an enlightening and inspiring interview with Sam Wells, of Flint, who was honored last year by the Michigan Community Service Commission. He was one of those chosen individuals from across the state of Michigan that received the prestigious GOVERNOR’S SERVICE AWARD. Specifically, Sam was recognized as the “Mentor of the Year.” This award
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Women are the fastest growing business owners in the US, especially black women. Although the US ranks #1 in terms of women entrepreneurs (based on a Dell study), there are still many gaps to ensuring that women-led enterprises are successful. Over the last decade Rahama Wright has traveled the entrepreneurial journey, which spans bootstrapping to securing her
Promoting Confident, Heroic, Inspiring, Courageous moms. (CHICmomorg.com) Jessica Byrd, mother of two found her passion as a career mom by starting an organization to interact with young mothers to provide them with the tools, necessities, and environment to better raise their children. Jessica firmly believes in not only engaging our children with a positive social environment, but also
Leaders may love where they work, but are yearning for more and don’t know how to excel in their career in a passionate way. In this episode, Nicole Roberts Jones will discuss the key ingredients it takes to not only understand how to align purpose with roles at work, but how to become a high-performance leader
