By Ashleigh Fields, AFRO Assistant Editor, afields@afro.com
The Ladies of Energy Nationwide Summit, created by Melanie L. Campbell over a decade in the past, is aimed toward creating frequent floor for girls from all walks of life to attach and develop. Visitors of the 2024 summit occasions included Caroline Wagna, CEO of Essence journal, Arian Simone, co-founder of the Fearless Fund and Dr. Barbara Williams Skinner, co-Chair of the Nationwide African American Clergy Community. Collectively they rallied round ladies’s rights whereas convening on Capitol Hill with Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Laphonza Butler (D-CA). Campbell is enthusiastic about this work and pours again into the neighborhood 12 months spherical as a civil and neighborhood rights activist whereas being the president/CEO of the Nationwide Coalition on Black Civic Participation and convener for the Black Ladies’s Roundtable.
Melanie L. Campbell enters into the Capitol with Arian Foster, Fearless Fund co-founder and different Black ladies who’re sport altering leaders. (Images courtesy of Invoice Lee) Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) takes a second with Ladies of Energy Nationwide Summit founder Melanie l. Campbell and Arian Simone, co-founder and CEO of the Fearless Fund. (Images courtesy of Invoice Lee) Pleasure Chaney, Clayola Brown, Senator Laphonza Butler (D-CA), Melanie Campbell and Rachel Noerdlinger talk about coverage initiatives for the betterment of Black ladies.(Images courtesy of Invoice Lee) Attendees on the Ladies of Energy summit collaborate on concepts to safe extra funding for Black ladies owned companies.(Images courtesy of Invoice Lee) Pleasure Chaney, senior coverage advisor, NCBCP/Black Ladies’s Roundtable; Clayola Brown, nationwide president, A. Philip Randolph Institute; Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, Co-Chair, Nationwide African American Clergy Community; Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY); Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO, NCBCP, Nationwide Convener, Black Ladies’s Roundtable; Arian Simone, Co-Founder and CEO, Fearless Fund; Dee. C. Marshall, CEO, Numerous and Engaged; Rachel Noerdlinger, Associate, Actum speak concerning the political local weather for Black ladies throughout america.(Images courtesy of Invoice Lee) Melanie L. Campbell (left) and Clayola Brown, nationwide president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, get pleasure from a trip on the Capitol subway system.(Images courtesy of Invoice Lee)
A recent perspective has arrived at The AFRO-American Newspapers. Ashleigh Fields has been named the brand new assistant editor, bringing new concepts to the oldest Black-owned enterprise in Maryland.
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