Black Women and Girls Conference

Despite the challenges of COVID-19, the Richland County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. hosted the annual Black Women and Girls’ Conference on March 20, 2021 (via Zoom). This year’s powerful theme: Ready, Set, Go! Accelerating Black Women and Girls into Empowerment & Awareness was built on the foundation of our RCA Mission, “College Educated Women: A Sisterhood Answering the Call to Serve: Transforming Lives and Impacting Communities. ” Our mission became the key to serving our well-qualified audience.

We proudly invested in our conference and provided Black women and girls an opportunity to participate on Zoom. Through personal and intimate sessions, our Panelists, Keynote Speaker, and Breakout Presenters did what we asked, and thoroughly presented to our audience: Virtues of leadership, empowerment, and awareness, with the goal of their becoming increasingly self-aware, politically conscious, and physically and mentally healthy, and inspired. The discussions helped to boost overall engagement. Upon reflection, many amazing points shared by our panelists, spoke volumes within the spirit of our audience, as acknowledged in chats and posts: the love of God, the need to love ourselves more, and the need to grow through continuing education.

In appreciation for conference planning and support, we thank Zenata Donaldson, President of our RCA Chapter; Panelists, Dr. Cheryl Cummings, Emma Rush, MSW, and Alexis W. Scurry, MSW; and 16- year- old Keynote speaker, Eliana Pinckney, an awesome change-maker, and leader whose words resonated with our audience, as she firmly insisted, “Be the change in the world you want to see. ” Young Eliana noted that she- is- just- that- person, as she highly touted “self-value. ”

In total gratefulness, we also thank The Black Women and Girls Conference Committee; Presenters in Break-out sessions 1 and 11; Members of the Information Communication Technology Committee, Sponsors, Partners, and all who helped to make the Black Women and Girls Conference of 2021, an absolute success, and more to come!