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Melissa Iwai has wanted to be a children’s book author and illustrator as far back as she can remember. She has illustrated more than 30 picture books, beginning with Night Shift Daddy published in 2000. Melissa also wrote and illustrated Soup Day and Pizza Day. And speaking of soup and…

How to describe Tracy Edwards? Let’s start with determined, accomplished, ballsy, adventurous, passionate. In 1989, when she was in her mid-20’s, Tracy and her crew of 11 females became the first-ever all-women’s team to compete in the grueling, prestigious, 32,000 mile Whitbread Round the World sailing race that begins and…

For Vivian Chew it’s all about music. While working at ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), she founded the “ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Awards,” which is celebrating its 32nd year. She’s also the founder of TimeZone International, the first and only U.S. based African American owned company that provides recording artists…

Cassandra Greene is a pastor, writer, director, producer, teacher, civil rights activist, domestic violence advocate…and… INSPIRATION. For more than a dozen years, she has directed the re-enactment of the infamous 1946 lynching murders of 2 black men and their wives on Georgia’s Moore’s Ford Bridge. Her efforts are chronicled in…

KT Sullivan is a woman of many talents. The Broadway actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Three Penny Opera with Sting) and singer has headlined at the Oak Room of the legendary Algonquin Hotel and one of those performances, “Rhyme, Women and Song,” was featured on WNET, New York City’s public television…