When she was younger, Beatrice Dixon suffered with bacterial vaginosis for eight months. One night, an ancestor gave her the ingredients to heal herself in a dream. From that insightful dream, she created the formula for a healthy, clean feminine wash. In 2014, Dixon launched The Honey Pot Company, a plant-based feminine hygiene line created with a goal to provide women with a healthy alternative to feminine care that is free of chemicals, parabens, carcinogens and sulfates. The rest is history.

Constance Wilson (she/her) has spent her professional career helping people improve their lives through learning. She chooses to work in the education sector because education has the power to be the great equalizer though there are still vast inequities to be solved within the system.

As CEO and Co-Founder of Listener Brands, which carries CurlMix & 4C ONLY as portfolio companies, Kim Lewis attributes her success to a resilient spirit and a strong work ethic.

LaRitta Webb, founder of The Profit Nerd, is an operations & supply chain consultant and health + fitness enthusiast. Her purpose, passion and discipline as an athlete is equally demonstrated in her career as an operational leader.

Denise is the Founder and CEO of Partake Foods, a natural food company that was inspired by her daughter’s experience with food allergies. Launched in 2017, Partake’s first product — delicious, better for you, allergy-friendly cookies — can now be found in more than 8,000 retailers including Target, Trader Joe's, Kroger, Whole Foods Market.

Olamide is a serial entrepreneur who recently graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and is the former co-founder of SheaGIRL, a Sundial Brands subsidiary now owned by Unilever. She is currently the CEO and founder of Topicals, a skincare company transforming the way people feel about skin through effective products and mental health advocacy.

Shaunté Robinson is a Vice President for JPMorgan Chase’s Commercial Banking Division and the bank’s Midwest Segment Lead for Diverse Businesses. Prior to joining Chase, she held various positions at Wells Fargo, primarily in the Global Banking division working with multinational corporations across a variety of industries.

Working at the intersection of tech, media and community.

Tiffanie Stanard is known for following all of her passions - an anomaly in many sorts because she is a techie, a creative, media personality/producer & an award-winning entrepreneur.

This influencer isn’t limiting herself...

Kim Roxie, founder of LAMIK Beauty, a Vegan makeup line seeking to build women’s self-esteem and reveal their natural beauty.

Founder and Principal of Play at Brown Toy Box, Bradley believes that Black children should see themselves positively represented in every space the experience regularly, starting with their toybox and the toy aisle. Bradley, an equity in play advocate, is on a mission to disrupt the $27B toy industry by creating a brand that reflects the world we live in today.

Sherrill Mosee, inventor and designer of MinkeeBlue set out to solve a problem she calls, the ‘overload bag syndrome’. Like many women, Sherrill carried two or three bags to work—a purse, laptop bag, lunch bag, and sometimes shoes in her purse. She wanted to create an organizational fashion bag for busy women whose role changed throughout the day—from an executive to fitness enthusiast, daily commuter, and mom. MinkeeBlue is her solution! 

Sophia Lopez is a founder and COO of Kaleido. Sophia began working with blockchain in 2015 helping shape the community and developing new commercial approaches for the enterprise market.

Dawn is the energetic founder and CEO of Peer Ledger. She has the honor of leading a first-class, in-Canada team of software engineers and architects passionate about corporate social responsibility, blockchain technology, and value creation. Dawn has spent 20+ years doing multi-disciplinary R&D and consulting in computer science and business.

Beau Wangtrakuldee is a PhD scientist-turned- entrepreneur whose mission is to make safety accessible for all without sacrificing the environment. After a successful career in research and development, Beau experienced a chemical spill in the lab which resulted in her suffering minor burns due to the lack of protection from her lab coat.

Mel is a serial entrepreneur by nature, starting her first business at 15 years old. She started making hand beaded jewelry and styling fashion shows.

Supply + Demand speaker Ciara Imani May speaks on "Supply Chain Pain Points in CPG". Supply + Demand brought to you by Stimulus, Project W, and Black & Brown Founders is a series of events and community designed to help founders navigate supply chain issues, discuss industry trends and build better business relationships.

The reasonable woman adapts herself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to herself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable woman. Komal Ahmad is an unreasonable woman intelligently Solving the World’s Dumbest Problem.

Martha Montoya is the founder and CEO of www.ag.tools, a web – SaaS solution allowing farmers and everyone on the food supply chain to make better decisions, increase profits, avoid waste and impact climate change.