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Oct 28, 2020 · 33 Successful Black Women Who'll Inspire You To Chase Your Dreams. Black women are the fastest growing group of business owners and these ladies are leading the way. By Essence ·Updated...
- Amber Scott
- Angela Rye
- April Ryan
- Ava Duvernay
- Ayanna Howard
- Carla Williams
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Hadiyah-Nicole Green
- Janet Mock
- Joy Buolamwini
Recognizing the power of education to lift families out of poverty, she founded Leap Year, an Atlanta-based nonprofit with the mission of helping low-income and first-generation college students succeed. As executive director, she oversees the program—which had three fellows in its pilot year and four in its current cohort—which puts high school gr...
She’s built a career of putting her law degree to work for social change through legislative advocacy, having handled legislative affairs for HBCU umbrella organization NAFEO and the Congressional Black Caucus. She’s also the principal and CEO of political advocacy firm IMPACT Strategies, though she’s probably best known to audiences at home for he...
A veteran journalist, the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks and a political analyst for CNN has been covering the U.S. presidency for 21 years, since the Clinton administration. The National Association of Black Journalists 2017 “Journalist of the Year,” she’s the only black woman reporting on urban issues from the White H...
Working to reshape Hollywood from behind the camera, this director founded a film collective dedicated to independent women and minority filmmakers and just partnered with Los Angeles on a $500,000 diversity initiative. She’s making history with her film as well, as the first black woman to win the directing award at Sundance, the first to be nomin...
She’s pushing innovation in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics, for applications that span from melting ice in Antarctica to missions to Mars. After spending 12 years at NASA as a senior robotics researcher, she’s now the chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She also founded Zyrobotics L.L....
She was named the athletic director of the University of Virginia last fall, breaking barriers in sports as the first African American woman ever to lead the athletic department at any of the NCAA’s Power Five conferences—and shining a positive light on Charlottesville, Virginia, after last year’s racial unrest. A former student-athlete and assista...
The award-winning Nigerian author is changing the conversation about feminism, especially as it relates to African women. Her 2012 TED talk “We Should All Be Feminists,” was later turned into a book (and some Beyoncé lyrics), and her most recent book,Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions,continues her exploration of the subj...
After losing both the aunt and uncle who raised her to cancer, she’s working to change the way the disease is treated and reduce the suffering of patients by making care more accessible, affordable, and effective. The physicist, who specializes in targeted cancer therapeutics, was awarded a $1.1 million grant in 2016 to develop her patent-pending p...
This transgender advocate uses her platform and the skills she’s cultivated as a journalist to bring marginalized stories to the forefront. She has written two memoirs about her own experience; her first, a best-seller, was the first biography from the perspective of a young trans person. And she started the hashtag #GirlsLikeUs to foster a sense o...
A self-proclaimed Poet of Code, this tech activist is fighting her battles on a field many of us don’t even understand: algorithmic bias. The founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, who researches social impact technology at the MIT Media Lab, is working to make sure the technologies that power our world, such as facial recognition software and ...
- Alisa Gumbs
Jan 22, 2021 · Black women are leading and making a difference like never before. Meet nine who showed up in the spirit of excellence in 2020.
Nov 6, 2020 · Race and Work in 2020: How Black Professional Women Break Barriers and Achieve Success. Prof. Alexis Smith and Pamela Carlton joined Wharton’s Stew Friedman to discuss their research on the qualities of successful black women in the workplace before and after The Great Recession.
Mar 22, 2024 · An impressive 50,000-plus Black women are innovating in the United States — but not without the uphill battle of fighting bank funding denials, limited access to capital and systemic racism and...
- Nika White
Jun 1, 2011 · Katherine Phillips: Black Women are Succeeding Rapidly. A visiting scholar explains how Black women are excelling as undergraduates and in business, particularly as entrepreneurs. June 01, 2011. | by Michele Chandler.
Nov 30, 2020 · November 30, 2020. This year many companies made public commitments to fight racism in their workplaces. But what progress have these organizations made in the six months since the killings of...
