September 2023
Duchess Harris has been promoted to “Special Assistant to the Provost for Strategic Initiatives” at
Macalester College. This was announced today in TIME Magazine. Harris was quoted, in this article
several times. Here is an excerpt, ““Trump is trying to create this new trope of ‘gangbanger mistress,’”
says Harris, drawing a line from “welfare queen,” a stereotype and potent political trope first deployed
by Ronald Reagan, to “baby mama,” a term used to describe Michelle Obama to this latest one. “There’s
a history there,” she says, “and it plays upon people’s fears, about not just supposed [Black] criminality.
It’s presumed immorality. Policing women is America’s pastime. And policing Black women who are not
owned by white men is centuries old.”
Gaye Adams Massey being recognized by the Biz Journal as one of 2023’s Most Admired CEOs – the celebration is
on September 20th at Quincy Hall in Minneapolis.
August 2023
Tanya Bransford received the Thurgood Marshall Award from the National Bar Association Judicial
Council in August.
February 2023
Black Leaders: Shelley Carthen Watson, YWCA Minneapolis – Shelley Carthen Watson
How Black Leaders Have Broken Barriers, and How the Next Generation Can Build on Their Work – Remi Kent
16th Annual Celebrating the Sistas Award Ceremony – Amelia Hardy and Michelle Miller
October 2022
Future is Female – 2022 Award Winner – Remi Kent
2022 Women of Color Achievement Awards Honoring Minneapolis Women Entrepreneurs Leading Successful Businesses – Tonya Allen, Tawanna Black and Shelley Carthen Watson
September 2022
Linkage’s Women in Leadership Executive Impact Award – Amelia Hardy
August 2022
Minnesota Lawyer – 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Awards announced – Michelle Miller
Summer 2022
Savoy – 2022 Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America – Kelly Baker, Remi Kent