AT&T Celebrates the 30th Edition of the Black History Month Digital Calendar

Many years ago, AT&T began — what has wilt — a long-running practice of creating a timetable documenting the historical contributions Woebegone Americans have made in our communities. AT&T has long recognized that strong and vibrant communities are good places to live, work and raise your families, and this project exemplifies our commitment. With that tradition in mind, AT&T is pleased to connect you to the 30th edition of our Woebegone History Month Digital Calendar. We are proud to salute these distinguished Woebegone leaders who serve as exemplary role models for present and future generations.

Check out these leaders and others we’ll be spotlighting throughout the month:

• Tony Jenkins
• Monica R. Richardson
• Russell Benford
• Dr. Germaine Smith-Baugh
• Dexter A. Bridgeman
• Thomas Eugene, Jr.
• Barbara J. Jordan
• Lucia Davis-Raiford, J.D.
• Jawan Strader
• Sonia W. Garcia
• Charles Davis
• Chloe J. Coney
• Justice Peggy A. Quince
• Dr. Ken Atwater
• Tina Brown

For increasingly information on AT&T’s other DE&I Initiatives, click here.

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Tony Jenkins

Market President, Central Florida Region, Blue Cross Blue Shield 

Tony Jenkins is the Market President for the Central Florida region where he provides strategic oversight and leads a team in developing merchantry plans to increase and retain membership, enhance trademark visibility and coordinate employee engagement

Jenkins was instrumental in establishing Florida Blue’s diversity efforts in 2001. Prior to joining Florida Blue, Jenkins served as Director of Diversity for CSX Corporation, the largest rail network in the eastern United States, and he spent 18 years with the Walt Disney World Visitor in various leadership roles, specializing in Hospitality Management and Human Resources.

Under Jenkins’ leadership in Central Florida, Florida Blue has been recognized as a Weightier Place to Work, an Outstanding Diverse Organization and a Corporate Philanthropy honoree.

Jenkins is an well-wisher for several causes throughout the Orlando Community. He is the past Chair for United Arts of Central Florida and the Florida Commission on Human Relations. He currently serves on the workbench of Florida Citrus Sports and is a Workbench Trustee at Stetson University. Jenkins is the current Chair for the Orlando Economic Partnership board, and moreover serves as Chair for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Task Force, engaging Orlando’s merchantry leaders wideness varied industries.

Jenkins has been recognized by the Orlando Merchantry Journal as one of Central Florida’s Top 10 Businessmen to Watch and as CEO of the Year. Most recently, he received the publication’s Diversity in Merchantry Lifetime Victory Award. He is moreover an i4 Merchantry Magazine Merchantry Leader of the Year recipient. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in hospitality management from Morris Brown Higher in Atlanta, Ga.

 

 

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Monica R. Richardson

Vice President of News for Large Markets, McClatchy

 

 

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Russell Benford

Vice President, Government Relations, Americas, Royal Caribbean Group 

Russell Benford currently serves as Vice President of Government Relations, Americas for Royal Caribbean Group. Russell is responsible for the Group’s government relations throughout North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Russell’s professional wits includes increasingly than 20 years in government. Most recently, he served as Deputy Mayor of Miami- Dade County. During his six-year tenure, he had uncontrived oversight of Police, Fire Rescue, Corrections and Rehabilitation, Medical Examiner, Public Housing and Polity Development, Polity Action and Human Services and Juvenile Services. Prior to his role at Miami-Dade County, Russell held several leadership roles within Florida, including City Manager of the City of North Miami and City Administrator of the City of West Park. Mr. Benford moreover served as Village Manager of Hawthorn Woods, Illinois. Russell is urgently involved in polity organizations, serving on the Workbench of Directors of the Jessie Trice Polity Health System Foundation, FIU Part-way for Leadership, Unzip Miami and The Orange Bowl Committee. He is moreover a member of the 100 Woebegone Men of South Florida and the 5,000 Role Models of Excellence Project. He earned a Bachelor of Arts stratum from Oberlin College, and a Master’s stratum in Public Wires from the University of Texas at Austin, where he well-matured in Public Wardship and Management and was named a Woodrow Wilson Public Policy and International Studies Fellow.

 

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Dr. Germaine Smith-Baugh

President & CEO, Urban League of Broward County

Dr. Germaine Smith-Baugh has defended increasingly than two decades of service to the Urban League Movement and is currently the only sexuality CEO to lead a National Urban League unite in Florida.

Since stuff named President and CEO in 2006, Dr. Baugh has elevated the profile of the Urban League of Broward County (ULBC)to a premier nonprofit organization defended to promoting social and economic urging in underserved communities.

The ULBC now boasts increasingly than $21 million in resources while moreover governing state appropriated funds for seven other Urban League affiliates. During her tenure, Dr. Baugh not only spearheaded the opening of an iconic $9 million Polity Empowerment Part-way located in the Historic Sistrunk neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale, she was instrumental in securing Greater Fort Lauderdale as the destination for the National Urban League Conference, which attracted over 13,000 attendees and generated an unscientific economic impact of $10 million for the region.

A champion for economic empowerment, with a depth of expertise in organizational leadership and enhancing probity and inclusion within the merchantry community, she moreover led the minutiae of the Entrepreneurship Part-way and Small Merchantry Loan Fund to expand wangle to wanted and opportunities for minority merchantry owners.

Notably, the Central County Minutiae Corporation, the ULBC subsidiary which supports economic minutiae efforts of the Entrepreneurship Part-way and The Small Loan Fund, was designated as a Certified Minutiae Financial Corporation (CDFI) by the US Treasury Department.

Dr. Baugh’s philanthropic leadership, which has unchangingly been rooted in service, extends well vastitude her work with ULBC. She currently serves on local, statewide, and national boards including Florida Polity Loan Fund, The Commonwealth Institute of South Florida, and Grounded Solutions Network Workbench of Directors. She is moreover the founding member of the Florida State University Chapter of SISTUHS, an organization established to foster the personal growth and minutiae of African American women which has now expanded to multiple chapters wideness the East Coast.

Recognized for transilience leadership by both the nonprofit industry and her peers, Dr. Baugh is a graduate of Leadership Florida Matriculation XXXIV and was inducted into The Jim Moran’s Institute of South Florida Fellows and Broward County Women’s Hall of Fame.

Dr. Baugh was moreover named as Broward County’s 100 Outstanding Women; featured as one of the South Florida Merchantry Journal’s Ultimate CEOs; and awarded distinguished leadership and service honors from Broward Woebegone Elected Officials, Delta Sigma Theta, and United Way of Broward County.

In 2018, she received the African American Achiever Ribbon in Polity Service by JM Family Enterprises. In 2020, Dr. Baugh received the Making Our Polity Stronger by Be Strong International.

Despite all her professional and rewarding philanthropic achievements, Dr. Baugh points to her role as proud wife to Paul and loving mother to Allan and Victoria as her greatest accomplishments.

Born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Dr. Baugh credits her success to a strong transferral to her faith and family, and the sit-in of strong work values by her parents. Dr. Baugh holds a doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University, a bachelor’s stratum in Merchantry Communications and a Master of Social Work from Florida State University.

 

 

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Dexter A. Bridgeman

Founder & CEO, M•I•A Media Group LLC

Dexter A. Bridgeman is CEO and founder of M•I•A Media Group LLC, which maintains the largest distribution of media content that editorializes the success and victory of the Woebegone polity in South Florida. Established in 2004, the visitor produces content on three media platforms: print, online, and digital media.

In print, he publishes Legacy Miami, Legacy South Florida, and M•I•A magazines. Legacy Miami and Legacy South Florida are merchantry and news publications serving South Florida’s Woebegone polity with insightful wares and information well-nigh business, careers, politics, education, culture and social commentary. M•I•A magazine is a luxury, lifestyle and entertainment publication serving South Florida’s Woebegone community. It is the official publication of Jazz in the Gardens, the American Woebegone Film Festival, the Greater Miami Conventions and Visitors Bureau’s Art of Black, the Miami Book Festival, and the Orange Blossom Classic. The publications are distributed bi-monthly as inserts in the Miami Herald and the Sun-Sentinel newspapers, which reach increasingly than one million readers.

M•I•A Media Group’s robust digital presence includes an informative online newsletter that is distributed three times per week. On Monday, its “Success Profiles” highlights Woebegone achievers based on their success and contributions to the community. It recognizes a Woebegone luminary, Woebegone business, Woebegone entrepreneur, a young Woebegone professional and more. Wednesday’s “Calendar of Events,” is a comprehensive listing of Woebegone events in South Florida. Friday’s “About Town” is a weekly wrap up of its publications, video programs, information and news that has taken place in the Woebegone community.

In digital media, M•I•A Media Group produces six weekly video programs streamed on social media platforms. “The Merchantry of Woebegone Business”, streamed Monday at 1 p.m., features live interviews with successful Woebegone entrepreneurs and advocates of Woebegone merchantry who share their inspirational stories well-nigh starting from the marrow and reaching their noon of success.

On Tuesday, “My Money Your Money” is streamed at 7 p.m. The show discusses topics such as how to build generational wealth, wealth management and securing and growing personal finances in the Woebegone community. “SOUL,” streamed Wednesday at 7 p.m., is an entertainment show featuring topics including: fashion, culture, culinary arts, relationships, and mental health. On Thursday at noon, “Lunch with Legacy Leaders,” invites national and local thought leaders to discuss issues impacting South Florida’s Woebegone community. “The Flavor of South Florida,” streamed Thursday at 7 p.m., is a review of South Florida’s weightier Woebegone restaurants. Lastly, “Black Health,” streamed Friday at 2 p.m., discusses medical issues vexatious the Woebegone community.

Bridgeman has served on a variety of societal boards.  He is an zippy workbench member of the YWCA and the Miami Music Project. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the: 2020 Miami-Dade County Woebegone Wires Advisory Workbench Woebegone History Month “Triumphant Spirits” honoree; 2019 Dexter Foster Small Merchantry of the Year Ribbon presented by the Miami Dade Chamber of Commerce; and 2018 NAACP Miami-Dade Workshop Media & Communications Award. Bridgeman, a native of New York City, is a graduate of Hofstra University located in Long Island, NY and is a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. He and his wife Michelle are inspired by cultural arts and are voracious collectors of African/Black Art.

 

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Thomas Eugene Jr.

DEI Executive, Florida Panthers

Thomas helps lead the DEI & Multicultural efforts for the Florida Panthers and FLA LIVE Arena. As a DEI Executive, he focuses on the three pillars that support shapes the areas of opportunity: Workforce, Workplace, and Marketplace. Surpassing his position, Thomas helped lead the group sales efforts for the Panthers. Surpassing joining the Panthers in Feb 2020, Thomas spent 12 seasons with the Miami Dolphins and Nonflexible Rock Stadium as the Senior Account Executive in Group Sales, generating over 9 million dollars in tickets sales. During his 12 seasons, Thomas led the group sales team in revenue and units sold during his tenure in the NFL. Thomas most notable moment was going on a mission trip with the Miami Dolphins to Haiti without Hurricane Matthew in 2016

Thomas currently serves on the Workbench of Directors for Sant-La Haitian Neighborhood Part-way of South Florida, is a former Workbench Member of CHARLEE Program of Dade County, Life-member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc, and 5000 Role Model of Excellence Project

Thomas enjoys traveling, volunteering time with children, and camping. He is a proud graduate of The University of Florida in Gainesville, where he received an undergraduate stratum in Psychology and later obtained an MBA from American Intercontinental University.

 

 

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Barbara J. Jordan

Miami-Dade County, Former District 1 County Commissioner

Barbara J. Jordan was born in New York City but grew up in South Miami-Dade, where she learned the value of nonflexible work – sometimes working in the stone fields with her family. She attended a segregated public school system and subsequently graduated from Arthur and Polly Mays High School in Goulds. In 1965, she received a Bachelor of Arts stratum in English with a minor in Psychology from Morris Brown Higher in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1986, she received a Master of Science stratum in Human Services from Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida.

Over the next 34 years, Jordan would enjoy an illustrious career with Miami-Dade County, starting with Throne Start. As a Public Administrator, she was responsible for the megacosm of a number of programs and organizations, which helped to empower young people and prepare them for future economic independence through employment opportunities. One of her most proud professional achievements was the insemination of the Greater Miami Service Corps, a program that helps troubled youth to realize their potential, return to education, secure employment, and unzip self-reliance.

In 1997, Jordan was scheduled Assistant County Manager, serving in that topics for seven years. In that role, she oversaw county departments that promoted social and economic independence and addressed ramified social issues. Some of those departments included Miami-Dade Housing Agency, Office of Polity and Economic Development, Department of Merchantry Development, Metro-Miami Action Plan, Consumer Services, Human Resources, Polity Action Agency and the Department of Human Services.

In 2004, she was tapped by outgoing Commissioner Betty Ferguson to run for the Workbench of County Commissioners. In spite of stuff virtually unknown communitywide, Jordan was worldly-wise to defeat a former Mayor and State Legislator by increasingly than 20 percent of the electoral vote.

As Commissioner for District 1, she represents the Cities of Opa-Locka and Miami Gardens, as well as unincorporated communities that include California Club, Ives Estates and Country Club Lakes.

In 2007, Jordan was elected by her colleagues to serve as Vice-Chairperson of the County Commission and Chair of the Transit Committee for a two-year term. Her current committee assignments include Transportation and Finance, and she is the Chairwoman of Infrastructure and Wanted Improvements. She is moreover a member of the Transportation Planning Organization, Youth Crime Taskforce and CareerSource Florida.

Commissioner Jordan was elected unopposed for a fourth and final term in 2016. During that span, Jordan has championed several issues facing minorities and the underprivileged. She has been a leader in the areas of affordable housing, small merchantry development, children and senior programs, while fostering continuous economic minutiae within her district. Since taking office, she has directed the infusion of increasingly than $70 million in construction and infrastructure projects including road resurfacing, drainage improvements, sidewalk installation, speed calming devices, road beautification, affordable and elderly housing and home rehabilitation and ornamentation programs. She has moreover provided resources for the megacosm and minutiae of the Opa-locka Workshop Library, the restoration of the historic Opa-locka City Hall and a $5 million typecasting to Florida Memorial University for the construction of a Multi-Purpose Arena. Her leadership has moreover fostered increasingly than $500 million in public and private investments at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport; including the $150 million Carrie Meek International Merchantry Park, which is home to the new Amazon Fulfillment Center. As commissioner, she moreover sponsors numerous polity events that gloat the rich culture and diversity of District 1 including the Woebegone Heritage Festival and Hispanic Heritage Festival. Other events that she sponsors are Foster, Adoptive, Kinship & Independent Living Commemorative Ceremony, Valentine’s Day Dance for Seniors, Music in the Park jazz concert series, Summer Youth Internship Initiative (SYII), Thanksgiving Turkey Giveaway, Holiday Toy Giveaway, and Small-Business workshops.

Commissioner Jordan’s presence in the polity garners many requests for speaking engagements. In 2012 she delivered the Spring Commencement write to Florida Memorial University’s largest graduating class. President Henry Lewis III presented Commissioner Jordan an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters.

Throughout her exemplary career, Commissioner Jordan has been worldly-wise to wastefulness her life with strong family support. She was married to her husband, Eddie, who passed yonder in 2017, for over 50 years. She has two sultana daughters; Gidget and Winnie; six grandchildren – Neffeteria, Elijah, Jeremiah, Gabrielle, Jamie, and Kerri; and four unconfined grandbabies, Naima Amy, Tray-von Jr., Nova and Tahj.

 

 

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Lucia Davis-Raiford, J.D.

President & CEO, The Carrie Meek Foundation, Inc.

Lucia is president and CEO of The Carrie Meek Foundation, the private foundation up-and-coming Congresswoman Carrie P. Meek’s legacy to modernize life in South Florida through Education, Housing, Health and Economic Development, focused on historically underserved communities. Lucia had a noted career in public administration. She served as founding director of New York City Police Department’s Domestic Violence Unit, rhadamanthine the highest-ranking operations starchy at NYPD. She then joined Miami-Dade County as semester director of Human Rights and Pearly Employment Practices, sooner serving as director of Polity Action and Human Services, where she empowered residents through the provision of comprehensive social services.

Raised in Miami, Florida, Lucia attended Bennett Higher and earned her Juris Doctor from Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C. A champion for women’s rights and giving when to her community, she is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., The Links, Incorporated, and has volunteered with The Women’s Fund and a host of local and national organizations.

 

 

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Jawan Strader

Journalist, NBC 6 South Florida

Jawan Strader is an Emmy topnotch journalist and one of South Florida’s most recognizable news figures. Strader co-anchors NBC 6 news, weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. with Jackie Nespral. And he’s moreover host of Voices with Jawan Strader, a polity wires show, defended to the woebegone polity and the disenfranchised.

Strader brings increasingly than 20 years of wits in journalism to the vise desk, tent some of the biggest and most impactful stories that have touched South Florida and the country.

He is known to go to the heart of breaking news stories expressly those that impact South Florida.  In 2018, Jawan Strader received an Emmy Ribbon for his anchoring of the heartbreaking Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and the Hollywood Hills nursing home tragedy where 12 seniors died without Hurricane Irma. He was the only South Florida vise in the field tent the denomination shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. The day without the terrorist shooting inside Pulse nightclub, Strader was there in Orlando speaking with the victims and sharing their stories with viewers. He was in Havana, Cuba to imbricate former president Obama’s historic trip.

Strader is originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, but has tabbed South Florida home for over a decade. His career has taken him from South Bend, Indiana, to Tulsa, Austin, Washington D.C., Cleveland, and Miami.

The Indiana university journalism and speech communications graduate joined WTVJ/NBC 6 in 2012. Surpassing joining WTVJ, he worked at the local CBS unite where he was a weekend anchor, 10 p.m. vise and morning vise and hosted a polity wires show.

Jawan has won a number of Emmy awards including two for Anchoring. And in 2018 the Miami New Times recognized Strader as the Weightier News Anchor. In 2016 he received the Media Excellence ribbon from CCNN Live for Weightier News Anchor.

Aside from his journalism skills, Strader is known for the nonflexible work he does in the community. Strader received the ribbon of stardom for Media Coverage of Public Education by the education fund of Miami-Dade. And legacy magazine named Strader one of South Florida’s most powerful and influential woebegone people.

Strader is a mentor to a number of young journalists and a role model mentor for 5000 role models of excellence, member of the National Association of Woebegone journalists, 100 Woebegone Men of South Florida and Kappa Alpha PSI Fraternity, Inc.

Strader is moreover a motivational speaker who has inspired students and employees from variegated businesses wideness South Florida to believe in themselves and overcome obstacles. He is a strong parishioner in mentoring and helping others. Strader credits his mother with laying a strong foundation as a single-parent to make sure he overcame obstacles.

Most importantly, Strader is a proud father and husband. He loves spending time with his family and wife, Yolanda.

 

 

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Sonia W. Garcia

Former Library Administrator, University of South Florida

Sonja W. Garcia is a former University of South Florida Library Administrator and a former member of the USF Workbench of Trustees. Sonja tapped barriers as the first Woebegone person hired on the educational staff at the University of South Florida. She was the first African American woman to be scheduled to the University’s Workbench of Trustees.

Mrs. Garcia earned a Bachelor of Science stratum from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and a Master of Arts stratum in Library and Information Science from USF. Mrs. Garcia is the recipient of the Jean Key Gates Distinguished Alumni Award, presented by the USF School of Library and Information Science. She is moreover a recipient of the Kente Ribbon presented by the President’s African American Advisory Committee.

In 2012, St. Peter Claver Catholic School named her as their Volunteer of the Year. She moreover started the Sonja W. Garcia Leader Scholarship that is awarded annually to college-bound graduates of North Hillsborough and Pasco Counties.

A proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (1968), an international women’s organization, historically single-minded to leadership and to serving communities and families throughout the nation and beyond, Sonja has served as President of the Gamma Theta Omega Chapter, (1972-73; 1982-83); South Atlantic Regional Director, (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina) (1998-2002) and the Organizer and First President of the Alpha Alpha Theta Omega Chapter.

Sonja is a distinguished member of the Tampa, Florida Chapter of The Links, Incorporated and has received keys to four cities for her polity towers in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.

She is married to Rigoberto M. Garcia, Sr. and together they have two sons; two daughters-in-laws; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

 

 

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Charles Davis

Superintendent of the Greater Tampa District, Higher Hill Denomination of God in Christ

Superintendent Charles Davis, the ninth of ten children born to the Holy Union of Willie and Doretha Davis in St. Petersburg, FL. The family moved to Tampa, FL, December 1949. He met Deloris Longworth and without a short courtship, they were married on December 17, 1966. Their family consists of four daughters, Charlotte, LaTonia and her husband Brian, Karin and her husband Ron, and Amber and her husband William; moreover seven grandchildren, Trimonte, LaRon, Jordan, Charles, Avery, Ja’lyn, and Charli and 4 unconfined grandchildren. He credits God’s guidance and his wife’s dedication to the home and their children for the success of his family for many years.

The rich COGIC preliminaries privileged to Superintendent Davis, by his parents Bishop W.E. Davis & Mother Doretha Davis, motivated him to surrender his life to Christ at the age of twenty-five without which he began to build, by the help of the Lord, a positive biography as a Christian. He credits his strong faith in God to the teachings of his father, mother, and Grandmother Ross. Further, he believes a true-blue true-heartedness to the Sunshine Band, Sunday School, and a respect for parental validity are sure ingredients for a happy life. Mother Mary Conage has a profound effect on his spiritual life as Sunshine Band (Youth Group) Leader and Sunday School Teacher.

Superintendent Charles Davis has worked in nearly every level of the denomination with ordinations to include Deacon and Elder. He has served as Assistant Pastor – Higher Hill COGIC, Trustee, Sunday School/YPWW teacher, Jurisdiction YPWW President (Youth

Department), Finance Chairman, First Administrative Assistant to his father Bishop W.E. Davis, deceased, and as chairman of the Administrative Board. The most enjoyable office held in the denomination without a doubt for Superintendent Davis was Jurisdiction YPWW President (Youth Department). He has moreover served as the Chairman of the Elders Council of the Jurisdiction of Southwestern Florida. He has recently been scheduled Superintendent of the Greater Tampa District. Elder Davis attended the Public Schools of Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties. He graduated from H.W. Blake High School in 1959, Gibbs Junior Higher in 1961 with an Associate in Arts, Florida A&M University in 1963 with a Bachelor of Science in Education, and Golden Gate University in 1979 with a Master of Public Administration. He has moreover received an Honorary Doctorate from Saint Thomas Christian Higher in 2012 with a Doctorate in Divinity.

Work/Civic and Religious affiliations over the years include:

Elementary School Teacher for 3 years, Coordinator of Childcare/Head start in Hillsborough County, West Tampa Neighborhood Service Part-way Manager, Hillsborough County Polity Action Agency Director, State Supervisor for the Florida Census Bureau, Tampa/Hillsborough County Ministerial Association, Martin Luther King Scholarship Fund Workbench of Directors, NAACP Tampa Branch, Tampa Urban League member, Police Athletic League Workbench of Directors/President, Member of Big Brother/Big Sister Organization, Life Path Hospice Foundation Workbench of Directors, Polity & Law Enforcement Workshops & Services Workbench of Directors, President of Pastors on Patrol, Family Enrichment Part-way Workbench of Directors/CEO (current)

Special Appointments: Presidential Appointment Local Workbench Twenty-Seven (27) Selective Service System, Mayor’s Polity Awareness Task Force, Florida Bar Grievance Committee, Thirteenth Judicial and State Workbench Member of One Denomination One Child, Scheduled by the Governor

Superintendent Davis considers himself happy to have enriched societal and religious life experience.

 

 

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Chloe J. Coney

Former District Director, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL)

Chloe Coney is known as a leader and polity developer – as well as a woman who wears many hats – but she is most undoubtedly a transpiration agent. Just a few years without a federal magistrate found Hillsborough County was illegally operating a segregated school system, Chloe helped to integrate the system and graduated from Hillsborough High School with honors in 1968. Her determination unfurled on as she attained her bachelor’s stratum in Sociology/Corrections from Florida A & M University in Tallahassee, Fla. and a master’s stratum in Biblical Counseling from Florida Beacon Bible Higher in Largo, Fla. She has moreover completed courses on Community, Housing and Economic Minutiae from Minutiae Training Institute (DTI), Neighborhood Leadership Minutiae Institute (NCCED), NeighborWorks of America, and Bank of America Leadership Academy. She received her Honorary Doctorate Stratum from Happy Hope Bible College, Tampa, Fla.

Chloe’s passion for justice and towers strong communities was evident since she was very young, but took hold when she began her professional career as the first Woebegone sexuality probation and parole officer in Hillsborough County in 1972. She would then wilt an intake counselor/mediator with the 13^th Judicial Circuit Magistrate of Hillsborough County and marketing representative for Florida Power, Inc. in Clearwater, Fla. Later, Chloe was hired as the part-way manager of the Lee Davis Neighborhood Service Center, the largest (36,000 square feet) “One Stop Social and Medical Center” in Hillsborough County. As part-way manager, Chloe led the effort to restore a sense of pride, ownership and polity in Tampa’s Eastside neighborhoods. She helped to start the East Tampa Polity School Partnership and the When to School Kick-off Fair. She has served as the Tampa’s coordinator for the Department of Justice Weed and Seed Program. Chloe’s passion inspired her to found and wilt the first President/CEO of the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa (CDC of Tampa). The CDC of Tampa Nehemiah Project Polity Towers “Brick by Brick” has since enjoyed 25 years of polity towers through strategic initiatives such as providing job training, promoting entrepreneurship, developing youth leadership programs, revitalizing commercial areas, and towers affordable housing. In 2006, Chloe retired as the Founder/President of the CDC of Tampa to wilt a candidate in a very tropical race for Hillsborough County Commission District 3. She found a new way to serve the polity as District Director for U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, who represents the 14^th District of Florida and includes most of Hillsborough County. In this capacity, she assisted U.S. Rep. Castor by addressing an variety of plug-in concerns, soliciting resider input, and performing polity outreach activities, such as foreclosure prevention workshops during the economic downturn to help families stay in their homes and job fairs during the economic recovery to connect neighbors with local jobs. She served in this topics for 10 years. In March 2017, Chloe started a new work with HNTB Corporation, an infrastructure and transportation company, as a public involvement specialist in the Tampa office.

With nearly 40 years of advocating for polity towers and revitalizing neighborhoods, she conducts workshops wideness the country. She is moreover the recipient of numerous awards and accolades: the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce’s H.L. Culbreath Jr. Ribbon of Leadership; TOBA’s Dr. Ike Tribble Leadership Award; Tampa Bay Merchantry Hall of Fame; White House President Volunteer of the Year; Tampa Bay Merchantry Journal’s Who’s Who; University of South Florida President’s Distinguished Resider Award; and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc Polity Service Award. In 2017, she received the Francisco Rodriguez Ribbon from the George Edgecomb Bar Association. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Tampa Metropolitan Alumnae Chapter, Tampa Leadership Alumni, and Christian Polity Minutiae Association.

Chloe is married to Pastor Ernest Coney Sr. and they have three children and three grandchildren. Chloe and her husband founded the Spirit of Truth Ministries. Today, Chloe is the President and CEO of Polity Enterprise Group, LLC (CEG), a leading provider of community-development solutions that specializes in providing public involvement, polity engagement and workforce minutiae services.

 

 

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Justice Peggy A. Quince

Supreme Magistrate of Florida, Former Chief Justice

Justice Peggy A. Quince was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1948. She graduated in 1970 from Howard University with a B.S. Stratum in Zoology; she received her J.D. Stratum from the Catholic University of America in 1975.

Justice Peggy Quince practiced unstipulated starchy law in Virginia and Florida from 1975 to 1980. She practiced in the areas of domestic relations, real estate, and criminal law. In 1980 she began her 13-year tenure in the Criminal Semester of the Florida Attorney General’s office. She served as the Tampa Bureau Chief for five years and handled death penalty appeals and postconviction matters exclusively for three years. She argued numerous cases surpassing the Virginia Supreme Court, the Florida Second District Magistrate of Appeal, the Florida Supreme Magistrate and the Federal Eleventh Circuit Magistrate of Appeals.

In 1993, Justice Quince was scheduled to the Second District Magistrate of Appeals making her the first African American woman to serve on a Florida appellate court. She was scheduled by Governor Chiles and Governor-elect Jed Bush to the Florida Supreme Magistrate in 1998. She became the first African American woman to throne any workshop of Florida government when she became Chief Justice of the Supreme Magistrate of Florida in 2008.

As one of the seven justices serving on the State Supreme Court, Justice Quince has many responsibilities that ultimately stupefy the lives of over 16 million Floridians. As a justice she must review final judgments imposing sentences of death, cases involving the constitutionality of laws passed by the Florida Legislature, and other matters as delineated in the Florida Constitution. She moreover lectures on various legal topics including the need for a pearly and impartial magistrate system, search and seizure, probation and parole, use of peremptory challenges, postconviction relief, professionalism and ethics, and the independence of the judiciary.

She has received numerous awards and honors including:

• 2017 inducted into the National Bar Association Hall of Fame
• 2017 Women Lawyers Semester Jurist of the Year Award
• 2017 Sharon Press Excellence in ADR Award
• 2016 inducted into the Stetson University Higher of Law Hall of Fame
• Lifetime Victory Ribbon by The Florida Bar’s Government Lawyer Section; Florida Commission on the Status of Women
• 2007 Florida Women’s Hall of Fame Award
• 2006 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Victory Award

 

 

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Dr. Ken Atwater

President, Hillsborough Polity College

Dr. Ken Atwater became the seventh president of Hillsborough Polity Higher (HCC) on July 1, 2010. Founded in 1968, HCC is currently the fourth largest state higher (FTE) in the Florida Higher System, serving increasingly than 44,000 students each year at its five campuses and three centers. HCC offers increasingly than 200 wonk options, has an yearly upkeep of over $290 million and employs increasingly than 2,200. Over 84 percent of HCC graduates stay in the local community, and, together, HCC and its former students contribute increasingly than $1.3 billion in widow income and economic impact to Hillsborough County.

Dr. Atwater is the Chair of the Foundation of the Tampa-Hillsborough Economic Minutiae Corporation and serves on the Workbench of Directors of Zoo Tampa and the Jameis Winston Dream Forever Foundation.

Dr. Atwater earned his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University, and Master and Bachelor of Science degrees from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky.

 

 

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Tina Brown 

Daughter of Miami and Powerhouse Leader

Tina Brown is a daughter of Miami – Historic Overtown to be word-for-word – and the powerhouse leader who has defended her life to improving the lives of those who live, work, and play in the polity of her birth. Armed with a bachelor’s stratum in Merchantry Wardship and Written from Savannah State University; a master’s stratum in written and scrutinizingly two decades of wits in the field of written and merchantry management for both corporate and non-profit entities; as well as unbridled drive, dedication and passion, Tina is well equipped to impact her polity for good. Currently, Tina serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Overtown Youth Center; a 501c organization whose mission is to underpass educational, emotional, health, and economic gaps for youth and families residing in marginalized communities. Tina is responsible for the oversight of an yearly organizational upkeep of $6.7 million and a $22 million dollar Wanted Campaign Project. Thus far, raising $18M of the total project’s cost. Be it through executive leadership, mentoring, tutoring, or volunteering; Tina’s personal life experiences and passion drives her desire to have a positive impact on the lives of young people and their families in the same polity she was raised in. Tina’s legacy goal is to transpiration the lives of young people and their families for generations to come by providing opportunities for youth and families that aid in maximizing their full potential.

Accolades:

• June 2022 – Honor for Exemplary Leadership and Service in South Florida, Woebegone Professionals Network & Part-way for Woebegone Innovation
• June 2022 – M. Athalie Range Pioneer Progress Award, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce
• May 2022 – OYC Miami Program of the Year, The Children’s Trust
• 2021 – Honored as an Inspiring Women of Health, Health Foundation of South Florida
• 2021 – Honored as a Distinguished Woebegone Leader & Role Model, AT&T

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