Learned a lot about reinvention from fellow panelists Amani Channel, Kathy Times and Shaunya Chavis at NABJ Region 3 conference. Charlotte Area Association of Black Journalists did a great job hosting at Johnson C. Smith University.
Archives for March 2013
International Women’s Day keynote
Honored to keynote Accenture’s International Women’s Day event, “Defining Success. Your Way,” and meeting Robin Bridges and Anita Suggs.
Mar082013
Condi Rice, Valerie Jarrett and Lesley Stahl on, inevitably, ‘having it all’
Do women separated by party, principle and vocation have more in common than not? When the conversation turns to the challenges faced and rewards gained when working toward leadership roles, it seems so. Or perhaps, as one of the high-powered women in a discussion on “CBS This Morning” offered, women strive for consensus. In Wednesday’s installment of the show’s “Eye-Opening Women” series, Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state for President George W. Bush and CBS contributor, Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama, and “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl were joined by interviewers Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King, who added thoughts of their own. Charlie Rose sat this one out.
Mar072013
Keeping it Positive: Dynamic Women Giving Back to Charlotte
It’s a great week to highlight the women in the community who are giving back in so many ways. From two Women of the Year, working to educate young people in the community to a prom project that gives young women a special evening. They inspire all of us to do our part, as well.
Mar062013
Artur Davis – Democrat turned GOP stalwart – has a plan for Republicans
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – On the announcement, his picture was squeezed between images of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, former presidents the GOP can get behind. Artur Davis was in North Carolina, where Republicans rule in the state house and legislature. It’s a place where the party that is suffering setbacks elsewhere could relax for a triumphant evening. At least, that’s what I think the folks at the 2013 MeckGOP Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner were doing Saturday night. Luckily, before the closed-press event, featured speaker Davis previewed his remarks and why his inclusive message matters to the GOP’s future.
“I think the conservatives have to understand that we’ve got to talk about not just the government we want to repeal but how we’re going to make the government that exists work better,” Davis told me. As the parties spar over sequester, appointments and more, it seemed a timely message.
Mar052013
