About Us [read about our Chairwoman & Founder Alexandria Johnson Boone]

Based on ongoing discussions with women of color (primarily with African-American, Asian, Hispanic and Native-American women,  across the country whose opinions we valued, we learned that all of us felt it was critical for us as women to share our successes, triumphs and yes, our failures with our peers and younger women coming along behind us.

Thus, we developed a unique concept and forum to facilitate the collaboration, networking, mentoring, sharing, development and training of women and girls of color.  While our personal and professional goals are perhaps the same as other women, our career challenges, family pressures, social obstacles and life stresses as women of color are very different.

Five major programs/activities have been developed to address these concerns:

Because of the tremendous response to our programming and the resulting success stories based on participant and sponsoring organizations’ experiences, it is our intention to expand our annual training programs to include women of color in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Louisville by 2009. 

It is also our vision to host a national training and networking event for women of color to be held in Atlanta, Georgia during 2010.