by Jeroslyn JoVonn
September 18, 2025
Calloway will begin at BWHI on Oct. 16.
Pleasure D. Calloway is leveraging her expertise as a nonprofit government and values-driven strategist in her new function as president and CEO of the Black Girls’s Well being Crucial (BWHI).
The BWHI introduced Calloway’s appointment on Sept. 16. She is about to start on Oct. 16. She replaces Linda Goler Blount, who served a decade in that function.
She joins the group after serving as government director of the Nationwide Medical Affiliation (NMA), the nation’s oldest and largest group representing Black physicians.
“To guide BWHI is to step into sacred work. For many years, this group has spoken out when others had been silent,” Calloway mentioned in a press launch. “It has made room for the complexity of Black girls’s well being experiences and turned that lived actuality into coverage, into motion, into energy. I’m right here to construct on that legacy, to raise what’s working, and to push even additional into the longer term all of us deserve. As a result of after we heart these most impacted, we create options that uplift us all.”
Calloway beforehand guided Deliberate Parenthood of Better New York by a pivotal transitional interval, serving to to reorganize operations and enhance inside tradition and public belief. She additionally served as CEO of New Middle Neighborhood Psychological Well being Companies in Detroit and based the primary Federally Certified Well being Middle (FQHC) in Oakland County, Michigan.
“Pleasure Calloway is a uncommon form of chief: visionary, grounded, and deeply linked to the communities we serve,” mentioned Barbara J. Brown, Ph.D., chair of BWHI’s board of administrators. “Her presence indicators greater than a brand new chapter. It indicators our continued rise as a drive for programs accountability, coverage change, and cultural transformation. She brings along with her not simply expertise, however a calling. I’ve little doubt she’s going to lead with the braveness, compassion, and conviction that this second and this motion demand.”
Since its founding in 1983 by well being activist Byllye Avery, BWHI has been a robust advocate for Black girls’s well being, shaping coverage, advancing culturally related analysis, and delivering packages that assist wellness nationwide.
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