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Kula Koenig
Activist, Director of Impact at United Way California Capital Region
Kula Koenig is an activist. She has been that way since she started collecting money from the residents of her apartment complex for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in junior high school. Currently, she serves as Director of Impact for the United Way California Capital Region directing the Square One project – an initiative to end poverty through education. Prior to her role at the United Way, Kula was Government Relations Director for the American Heart Association and District Director for former Assemblymember Roger Dickinson. Her background is in community organizing, policy advocacy, strategic outreach, and fundraising. She loves being of service to her community and just recently launched the Social Justice PolitiCorps for Sac County (socialjusticesac.org) to crowdsource political information. Kula serves as president of the Sacramento chapter of Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA) and is passionate about black women being in positions to influence policy. She loves deadlifts, craves her mom’s Liberian cooking and leads with her heart.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kulakoenig/
NEKETIA HENRY
Actress & News Reporter for KCRA 3
Actress Neketia Henry has appeared in numerous film projects and countless commercials and print ads, including Essence Magazine, Microsoft, and Bank of America just to name a few. In addition to being a radio personality, she has also hosted several red carpet events, including the BET Awards. Neketia’s television experience and witty personality recently landed her a position with Hearst Television Corporation as a News Reporter for KCRA 3 and a Promotions Team Ambassador for KQCA My58. She truly believes that to whom much is given, much is required and strives to illustrate the importance of never compromising your integrity to get ahead.
Zoritha Thompson
CEO & Real Estate Broker
Zoritha Thompson is the CEO/Broker of Goree and Thompson Real Estate, Inc. Zoritha has been in the real estate field for over 23 years, she is currently the Treasurer of the Sacramento Realtist Association and serves on the board of Directors of the California Association of Real Estate Brokers.
Kim Mims
ADOS Activist, Access Sacramento Board – Vice Chair, Programming Chair
Kim holds an associate degree in Television Production from Consumnes River College and bachelor’s degree in Communications from Sacramento State University. Post-graduation, Kim worked as coordinator with the Sacramento Film Commission. Subsequently she worked in a communications production capacity for California Bountiful TV. Kim’s work in agriculture inspired Sacramento’s entire Farm to Fork brand. Currently, Kim is an active member of American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) Sacramento chapter and co-founder of ADOS CA MEDIA YouTube channel. An avid ADOS activist Kim attended every AB3121 California Reparations, Task Force hearing and testified before Congress about persistent systemic racism in Sacramento.
Alondra L. Thompson, LCSW
Behavioral Director for One Community Health
Alondra Thompson, LCSW is the Behavioral Director for One Community Health. She works with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues providing services that span from therapy for depression and grief counseling to parenting support, couples’ counseling and beyond. In a comfortable and supportive atmosphere, Alondra offers a highly personalized approach tailored to each of her clients’ individual needs to help attain the personal growth they are striving for. Ms. Thompson’s interventions include Trauma Resiliency Model, NeuroAffective Relational Model, and Motivational Interviewing. She works at a community clinic in Sacramento County, has a private practice in Sacramento, California and Berkeley, CA. She provides consultation services to community-based organizations, schools, universities, and other public and private institutions.
Keisha Mathews
Broker/Owner/CEO
Keisha “Kee” Mathews, Broker/Owner/CEO – With over 16 years in real estate, Keisha “Kee” Mathews is broker and owner of real estate firm Mathews & Co. Realty Group (MCRG) and Urban Core Rentals Property Management. She recently re-ignited her first passion, communications opening her third business Kee Comm Media. She has an intense passion to be a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves. Her professionalism, work ethic, designations, extensive marketing, graphic design, communications, and construction background all give her an advantage that anyone she represents benefits from and deeply appreciates.
Hundreds Unit
The Hundreds Unit is a diverse network of hundreds of women who work out collectively for 6-8 weeks, to perform at professional events.
What makes the women of Hundreds Unit unique is that they consist of ALL shapes, sizes, ages, and levels of ability, dancing as one UNIT in their own unique way!
The events that are secured, are venues that are exciting and draw hundreds and thousands of people. The idea behind this is that in addition to our participants being drawn to the opportunity to perform on such platforms, it also inspires them to commit to the entirety of our 6-8 week dance and fitness program, through a massive accountability group, performing in numbers of 50 to well over 100 women.
This process exposes the women of the Unit to different workout regimens, it encourages them to strive to accomplish their health and wellness goals regardless of how they presently may feel about themselves, and provides networking opportunities within the Unit, as the group encompasses women from different backgrounds and careers.
Essentially this program is designed to nurture the mind, body, and soul, long term, through empowerment provided through our Units.
Hundreds Unit is changing the lives of these women, by providing them with extraordinary experiences and opportunities that they would otherwise only dream of having.
The Hundreds Unit concept was birthed by Venetia James in 2016, and has been featured several times at the Sacramento Kings games, V101.1 Concerts held at the Golden 1 Center and Thunder Valley. River Cats, Sac Republic, California State Fair, Cal Expo, 49ers at Levi’s Stadium, Black Women United marches, Black Joy Parade in Oakland, California, and many more events and television features!
In October 2019 the group was the show opener at the Exceptional Women of Color’s 11th annual celebration at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis, as well as debuted at the Warriors game in the new Chase Center in San Francisco on the group’s anniversary day, Saturday, January 4, 2020!
Hundreds Unit, in addition to being proud of their accomplishments, anticipates expansion of its movement both locally, and nationally!
Cassandra Cummings
Founder of Stocks & Stilettos Society
As a practicing financial advisor and self-proclaimed “number cruncher”, Cassandra Cummings-Founder of Stocks & Stilettos Society has expert knowledge of investing, finance, and money-growth strategies. The Stocks & Stilettos Society is a community of start-up investors comprised of African-American women who desire to build wealth through investing in the stock market. Led by expert financial advisor Cassandra Cummings, through Stocks & Stilettos she teaches high-earning women how to manage and grow their money through investment education and financial literacy. Cassandra is an Oakland, California native and currently calls Northern California home. When she’s not coaching women on maximizing their money, she’s traveling, reading the latest in financial news, and speaking.
Maya Brooks
Product Manager at Ifundwomen.com
Maya Brooks is an Award Winning Product Manager, Educator, Speaker, and Entrepreneur. Fueled by her passion to create new ideas (and perhaps a bit too much Cold Brew), Maya enjoys helping fellow entrepreneurs & tech enthusiasts reach their full potential. She is currently a Product Manager & Startup Coach at IFundWomen, a startup funding marketplace for women-led businesses, where she builds thoughtful and intuitive products & experiences to empower female founders. Maya has coached over 100 early stage entrepreneurs on how to build revenue generating MVPs.Maya has a background in finance and previously worked in Commercial Banking at JPMorgan on both credit and sales teams for clients with $20MM-$2B in revenue. After gaining some technical expertise as a front-end web developer, she made the leap to startups in 2018, working as a freelance web & product developer. Prior to IFundWomen, Maya also held a position as a Business Associate in the Barclays Fintech Accelerator program powered by Techstars.
Joy Ofodu
Associate Brand Marketing Manager at Instagram & SF-based Portraitist
Joy Ofodu’s mission in life is to empower on/offline communities. As an Associate Brand Marketing Manager, she has been recognized as one to watch in the marketing and technology industry, centering Black people and girls in her programs, mentorship, art and digital content. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Refinery 29, Afropunk, People, AdWeek, Blavity and more. She is also a proud alumna of USC’s African American Cinema Society and Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
Christina Elmore
Film, Television and Theater Performer
Christina Elmore is a film, television and theater performer living and working in Los Angeles. With an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a MFA in acting from American Conservatory Theater, Christina has performed roles across all genres. After five seasons as a series regular on TNT’s hit series, The Last Ship, she now stars as Marie in Lena Waithe’s newest scripted series, Twenties, on BET. She has a recurring role as Condola on HBO’s Insecure and can be seen in Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, Lady Bouncer on HBO and the CBS pilot, Under the Bridge. Her favorite roles in the theater include Juliet at Los Angeles Shakespeare Company and Monique in theworld premiere of Adam Rapp’s “The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois” at South Coast Rep. She is repped by SDB Partners and Hansen, Jacobsen, Teller et.al.
Kezia Williams
CEO & Founder of Black upstart
Kezia Williams is the CEO at Black upStart – cultivating the largest national, educational campus benefiting early stage Black entrepreneurs. As CEO of the Black upstart, Kezia leads a team of talented professionals to train early stage African-American entrepreneurs interested in starting job creating, bankable small businesses. To date Black upStart has trained nearly 200 small business creators in Washington, DC; Brooklyn, NY; Raleigh, NC; Durham, NC and Baltimore, Maryland and engaged a network of over 66,000 African-American creatives, entrepreneurs and innovators via our social media platforms. Forty-one percent (41%) of the program graduates are still in business, 50% of them are employers.
Wendy Raquel Robinson
Award-Winning Actress & Co-Founder of Amazing Grace Conservatory
Wendy Raquel Robinson born in Los Angeles, California is one of America’s favorite award winning actresses. She is of African-American and Native American descent. Robinson is a cum laude graduate of Howard University of the School of Fine Arts and received her B.F.A. in drama. She’s appeared in several plays, such as “The Vagina Monologues”, “Black Woman’s Blues”, “Agnes of God”, “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”, “The Colored Museum” and “Vanities”; all have done very well. In addition, she has made guest appearances in several television series, including Martin (1992), The Sinbad Show (1993), Thea (1993), The Parkers (1999) and All of Us (2003). She is mostly known, though, for her role in the sitcom The Steve Harvey Show (1996), which she played Principal Regina “Piggy” Grier.
