Saturday, September 30, 2023

Brittani Hunter . . . A Profile in Success!

Brittani Hunter is the founder of Mogul Millennial, a digital media startup that helps Black entrepreneurs and professionals advance in their careers through smart, actionable content, resources, and experiences - www.mogulmillennial.com.

Since launching Mogul Millennial, our startup has quickly grown to be a leading voice and source of smart content for Black entrepreneurs and professionals looking to elevate their careers and/or businesses. We're also the brand behind The Quick Pitch, the leading startup pitch practice for Black founders (https://www.thequickpitch.com/).

For my work at Mogul Millennial, I've been listed on the Forbes #Next1000, LinkedIn Top Voice, and PVAMU 40 Under 40 list.

Mogul Millennial is a smart media platform that empowers and educates Black entrepreneurs and professionals. Through smart, actionable content, experiences, and leveraging resources and data, we help this community build successful careers while moving the culture forward.  Whether you're climbing the corporate ladder, or you're an aspiring or early-stage entrepreneur, we built this platform just for the Black community to help them achieve more.

Our startup pitch practice event series can be found at: https://www.thequickpitch.com/Mogul 

Some of Brittani's experiences include Snap's Yellow launchpad for creative minds and entrepreneurs who are looking to build the next generation of great media companies, created in 2018. The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S. and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building.

She also completed a six-year stint with American Campus Communities, beginning while a student at Prairie View A&M University as a Community Assistant.  She later found full-time employment as an Assistant General Manager and later to General Manager where her management operations supervised more than 80 employees in the operations, marketing, and accounting department.  She also worked in the Human Resources department managing direct reports and their performance in the recruitment, onboarding, and in learning and development areas, facilitated employee development programs through classroom and self-guided training and assisted the corporate Human Resources team with payroll, benefits administration, and performance management.

Additionally, she worked in the Marketing and managed the ideation, creation, and execution of a cross-platform content strategy plan and marketing initiative to drive engagement and hit marketing KPIs; coordinated collegiate marketing events including pre-event planning and on-site logistics; collected market research data through a variety of resources and implements techniques to support the development of business.

Brittani holds the Master of Business Administration degree from Texas Woman's University and the Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication and Media Studies from Prairie View A&M University. She holds or has held membership in various organizations to include Membership Chair and Charter Member of the 100 Collegiate Women of America, Inc. at Prairie View A&M University.  The 
This organization was one of the newest organizations for empowering and developing collegiate women. It is devoted to creating leaders, providing opportunities to empower, to improve the quality of life for women and to influence development at all levels of society. While accomplishing the objectives of the organization.  

Brittani is committed to giving back to the community and could be found volunteering with Panthers at Work (PAW) while a student at the Prairie View A&M University. The organization was provided cleanup and landscaping services for the community in the Prairie View, Waller and Hempstead areas.  The also helped to clean and paint the Fire Station and Recreation centers. She also participated as a  Mission trip volunteer to El Salvador, sponsored by the Concord Church, which provided disaster and humanitarian relief to the Salvadoran families realize the dream of being a homeowner by building a home for them. There, she had the opportunity to work alongside local construction workers and college students on the work site. They also partnered with the Habitat for Humanity organization.

You can contact me by email at brittani@themogulmillennial.com or on Twitter at @BrittaniLHunter
or https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanihunter/

For more information on support with your startup and to reach Black entrepreneurs and professionals, visit https://www.mogulmillennial.com/about/ and fill out the 'contact' form.

Friday, May 5, 2023

Alexandria Williams . . . A Profile in Success!

Congratulations to Alexandria Williams in her new position as Manager, Media and Investments at Target!
 
Alexandria has been in the position since November 2021 and is very excited to be part of a team  and organization that truly values diversity and inclusion.  "It's very refreshing that all voices, community, volunteerism, and most importantly our Guests are respected," she said about the position.
 
In this position, Alexandria
Marketing and Communications Manager for the Alzheimer's Association where she managed $100,000 yearly marketing (non-profit), advertising, and printing budget to increase awareness of the association.

Alexandria is a charter member of the 100 Collegiate Women of America, Inc., and is engaged in several civic and professional organizations.  Some of her community activities include working with the American Heart Association, Dress for Success of Houston, Girls Inc. of Greater Houston, American Red Cross, Susan G. Komen, Blue Cure Foundation, Alzheimer’s Association, Rebuilding Together Houston, City of Sugar Land, Souper Bowl of Caring, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, and Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center, etc.

Alexandria holds the Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from Prairie View A&M University and the Master’s Degree in Mass Communication/Media Studies from Purdue University.

Saturday, April 8, 2023

Women in Leadership: A Guide for Women, Their Mentors and Allies


The information provided in this story is by Dana Theus, Executive Coach InPowerCoaching.com

While women have been a critical element of the workforce since the beginning of time, it’s only recently that women in leadership have become a holy grail for major organizations that want to be seen as open and welcoming places to work. The data is clear that organizations with significant representation of women (and other diverse leadership) on their boards and in their executive suites, regularly out-perform those with more homogenous leadership. Despite the overwhelming data that demonstrate women are good for business, organizations seeking to support women in leadership roles, not to mention the women themselves, continue to be frustrated by systemic and cultural barriers to success.

And yet, many women succeed despite the barriers put in their way. What are they doing right? How are their mentors helping them? What are their companies doing to change historically discriminatory dynamics? What are the best practices to create gender equality?  In this guide to Women In Leadership, you’ll find a comprehensive look at the hard facts as well as the soft skills that help women become powerful contributors at the most senior levels of any organization. I’m often asked to speak and share my resources and perspectives on women in leadership. After years of culling good resources, I’ve put them into this comprehensive guide to help my clients, colleagues and connections identify good information sources and positive steps to take to help women rise to greater levels of leadership. We update this guide regularly, you’ll find the most recent version at InPowerWomen.com.

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Saturday, December 17, 2022

The Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women includes Five Black Women

       ILLUSTRATION BY GRACELYNN WAN FOR FORBES; PHOTOS BY MICHELE TANTUSSI

Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine was a defining moment for Europe. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen rose to the challenge. A week after the war began, she announced three major economic sanctions against Russia—banning transactions with its central bank, closing airspace to Russian plane travel and barring Kremlin-owned news agencies.

“Protecting our liberty comes at a price,” von der Leyen said. “This is our principle: freedom is priceless.”

For her leadership during the Ukraine war, as well as her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, von der Leyen sits atop the 19th annual Forbes list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women. Her influence is unique—no one else on the list formulates policy on behalf of 450 million people—but her commitment to a free and democratic society is not. Von der Leyen is just one face of the biggest storyline of 2022: women acting as stalwarts for democracy.

American women suffered the greatest reversal of rights in the two decades of the list when the Supreme Court limited the right to an abortion. In reaction, female voters energized U.S. midterm elections. In Iran, thousands of women marched in the streets in protest against theocratic laws that treat them as second-class citizens. 

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Thursday, November 11, 2021

100 Collegiate Women Celebrates 10 years

CONGRATULATIONS AND HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE CHARTER MEMBERS . . .

Ten years ago, 41 dynamic, daring and determined young women, coupled with others, took the road less travel and helped to launch a new movement in organizations for women at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. The result was the creation founding of The 100 Collegiate Women of America™ an international organization in August 2011. The women, along with the advisors and honorary members were inducted in September 2011.
 
The organization, not to be confused with the Collegiate 100, an organization with membership for both male and female. This organization was to set become the premier organization for women in college and college graduates. 
 
Ten years later the organization is not a dream deferred and is being reestablished because of its impact on those first 41 women who dared to be different and the future women of the world. Some of these dynamic ladies have become authors, educators, entrepreneurs, news personalities, and other individuals of great influence and power in their various communities.
 
So today we take time out to salute the women on the Tenth Anniversary . . . remember, the best is yet to come!

Saturday, November 14, 2020

Harris is Vice President Elect of the United States of America


Kamala Harris is poised to become the first Black woman Vice President of the United States of America. After a long battle, herself for the presidency, Harris accepted the request from Vice President Joe Biden to become is running mate for president.

The election of 2020 will go down in history for a number of reasons one of which will be the first time that an incumbent president lost the election but refused to accept the results.  Additionally, Harris' husband Doug Emhoff will also make history as the first male to become the 2nd Gentlemen.  The attorney will also be the first Jewish spouse, of any gender, for the presidency or vice presidency.

After Joe Biden became the president-elect, based on ABC News analysis, Emhoff reacted on Twitter by posting a photo of him and Harris embracing along with the words, "So proud of you."

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Monday, January 21, 2019

Kamala Harris makes run for the Presidency

Senator Kamala Harris, a former California attorney general and San Francisco district attorney who was elected to the Senate two years ago, officially launched her campaign for president today (Monday, January 21, 2019.

Harris, the first African-American to enter the 2020 presidential race and the first black senator from California, made the announcement on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” She simultaneously released a video teasing the formal start of her campaign at a rally on January 20 in Oakland, California, Harris’ birthplace and the city that cultivated her political rise.

It appears that Harris is following the route to the presidency as did then Senator Barak Obama, who was later elected president in 2008. The 100 Collegiate Women of America predicted this move back in 2016 upon her election to the Senate.

Harris is the second Black woman to make this move since Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm launched her run for the presidency following four after her election in 1968 as the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress.  The question now is America ready for the first Black woman to become president?  Can she amass the following and the money for such an ambitious run for office.

Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, before being recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected district attorney of San Francisco. She was elected Attorney General of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Harris has served as the junior United States senator from California since 2017. 

Harris defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the United States Senate. As a senator, she has advocated for healthcare reform, federal descheduling of cannabis, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, the DREAM Act, a ban on assault weapons, and progressive tax reform. She gained a national profile for her pointed questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings, including Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault.

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