I am Painted Pink to advocate for mothers diagnosed with Breast Cancer during pregnancy.

What motivates me to serve is the joy we receive from our survivors during our events.

What I bring to the Pink Table is creativity, brand strategy and action-oriented insights that drive results.

Alma Mater: Florida A&M University & Purdue University

Hometown: St. Paul, MN by way of Kalamazoo, MI

Occupation: Manager, Strategic Insights at The Weather Channel

Other Involvement: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and The Flourish Foundation

I am Painted Pink for my fellow millenial women who have to advocate for themselves in a nation with a complex and expensive healthcare system. Knowledge and self-awareness must be a priority for our long term health and well-being.

What motivates me to serve is our health impacts every aspect of our life. You can not live your true purpose without your health and wellbeing.

What I bring to the Pink Table is my prior experiences with serving on one of the largest nonprofits in the world and my event management and planning experience.

Alma Mater University of Central Florida

Hometown: Miami, FL

Occupation: Higher Education Administrator

Other Involvement: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

I am Painted Pink for every woman who is fighting anything because we all have survived something.

What motivates me to serve is the fact that black women are diagnosed less but die more.

What I bring to the Pink Table is my passion for the mission, my continuous pursuit of education around breast health, and ability to provide the narrative to the movement.

Alma Mater: Florida A&M University

Hometown: Where my family is

Occupation: Manager of Talent & Ops at Teach for America

Other Involvement: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

I am Painted Pink to inspire millennials to live preventatively -from beauty to fitness to food.

What motivates me to serve is…witnessing my sister and Painted Pink founder, Ann-Marie’s, journey with benign lumps and my aunt’s breast cancer journey. This fuels my purpose for the millennial cause.

What I bring to the Pink Table is… a passion for positively influencing women through digital content that I pursue by day as a marketing strategist and through the creation of Painted Pink’s content and sponsorships.

Alma Mater: New York University

Hometown: Tallahassee, FL

Occupation: Marketing Strategist at a women’s entertainment brand

Other Involvement: Style Blogger & Owner of an accessories shop

I am Painted Pink for the fundamental gap between young women and breast health education. In 2011, I found two painful lumps in my breasts and as a result I had two lumpectomies. Though my diagnosis came back negative for cancer, the feeling of helplessness never left. During my experience, I noticed a severe lack of resources available for young adults to advocate for themselves. Being planted in the reality of women’s health and the disparities, I grew a passion to create a platform that helped young women advocate for their own health.

What motivates me to serve is that black women have a higher mortality rate with breast cancer and much lower preventive measure for early detection. If my personal experience with breast cancer lit the fire in me to create a NGO that advocates for women’s health, then the statistics and breast cancer data for Georgians fanned the flames. The more I researched, the more women I met that shared their diagnosis stories. Women in their twenties and thirties with no family history of breast cancer, and who did not meet the standard criteria for breast cancer risk, were more commonplace than I anticipated.

What I bring to the Pink Table is…a safe space for support and knowledge sharing, and reinforcing the importance of breast health education for young women. Painted Pink gives voice to an underserved group of young breast cancer survivors that need resources from health care professionals and education on consciously making better lifestyle choices for their health in beauty, food, and exercise choices.

Alma Mater: University of Central Florida

Hometown: Tallahassee, FL

Occupation: Recruiting Manager

Other Involvement: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.