actions. The Philadelphia political legend inspired Brown-Sow to get involved and, at age 13, she managed her first campaign office – the first stop in a career that has seen her run all of Hardy Williams’s campaigns and those of politicians ranging from Dave Richardson, Wilson Goode, Ed Rendell and Michael Nutter. She even ran the first campaign of hardy Williams’s son, Anthony Hardy Williams. She has also worked in city government, managing the transition teams for both Mayors Rendell and Nutter, and served as deputy mayor of administration
for Mayor Rendell’s first administration. Today, while BrownSow takes evident pride and satisfaction in all of her good works, she holds a special place for Women of Destiny, which she launched nine years ago with a group of like-minded friends. “We were talking one day and realized; When we leave these jobs, who is taking them?” she says of the mentorship program. “My role is to open the door for younger women and to make sure they have a seat at the table – and help them understand what the table is.”
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(Cont. From Page 11) The drive to participate in and contribute to the betterment of the city and its citizens has been part of Brown-Sow’s makeup since she was a girl in West Philadelphia. In addition to growing up in a household with a policeman father who went on to become one of the founders of the Philadelphia Guardian Civic League and a mother who rose through the ranks to help create the first home ownership program at the Philadelphia Housing Authority, BrownSow saw the difference that family friend Hardy Williams made through his
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