Founders

Kadidja Dosso

Kadidja Dosso is the Founder and CEO of Dosso Beauty LLC, a Black-owned e-commerce Organic Beauty Supplier & Wholesaler selling over 150 branded products curated to meet the beauty needs of the Black Beauty Market. Kadidja recognized a gap in the beauty industry: limited accessibility to affordable organic hair care, skin care and cosmetic products that were made for people of color. For Kadidja, Dosso Beauty’s mission is more than offering organic personal care and cosmetics to the market; it’s about providing a platform for people to reinforce the confidence they have within themselves for success. Dosso Beauty strives to create a healthy, safe environment for customers. Beauty should be fun, and we want to keep it that way!

Mandy Bowman

Hello! My name is Mandy Bowman and I am the Founder/CEO of Official Black Wall Street. We are the largest platform and app helping consumers find and support Black-owned businesses around the world!

Tiffany Townsend

Tiffany Townsend is the founder of Ship Black; a logistics super center focused on serving black owned e-commerce businesses. With 20+ years working for the post office, she had a dream to one day own her own postal store with the ability to individualize customer service, tailoring to each customer. In the spring of 2019 that happened and within the first year she quickly found herself already needing to pivot her business model to survive the Covid-19 pandemic. Opportunities to serve and educate small business owners in the product fulfillment and shipping areas helped birth Ship Black; Businesses Learning And Collaborating for Knowledge. Since then, Tiffany formed a non-profit to serve her community; Pack-N-Pour, an organization for teen

Chelsea VonChaz

Activist & educator Chelsea VonChaz founded #HappyPeriod, the first Black menstrual movement in the U.S. Inspired by the state of people with wombs and her advocacy work within the wellness sector, Chelsea has launched Menärchē. Menärchē is a wellness center prioritizing people with periods, providing educational resources and a shame-free shopping experience.

Trudy Armand

Trudy Armand is the co-founder of HER-MINE, a self-care, lifestyle gift box company focused on women. Trudy started HER-MINE in loving memory of her favorite aunt Hermine Ricketts-Carroll. Trudy and her mom who is her business partner, built on the ecommerce experience they had garnered through almost 10 years as third-party sellers on such platforms as Amazon, Ebay, and Walmart. HER-MINE initially started as a subscription box company and has grown to now include B2B and corporate gifting. Their business model is focused on women's empowerment and they curate products primarily from women-owned companies. HER-MINE was in the top 10 women-owned boxes on CrateJoy in 2021, and nominated Best Women's Box in 2021.

April Roy

Founder/CEO of femPAQ Inc. where we take the oops out of unexpected periods. I have background in design, with 10yrs of product development experience. I created femPAQ after a girls trip where my bestie unfortunately got her period unexpected but after much research, femPAQ became more than a product but a movement to create period equity and to end period stigma.

Anastasia Jackson

HU 21' Born in Oakland, CA and raised in St. Louis, MO. I am on a mission to bring unity to the HBCU Community.

Zakiya Bryant

Zakiya Bryant is the founder and CEO of WeSUB Teach, the 1st Substitute Staffing App created exclusively for Childcare industry.

Kody Young

CEO / Co-Founder of bGenius. We are engineering a product that will change the way we communicate forever! Our product, Transverb, is a real-time translation application that allows people and teams to collaborate - each in their own language!