Black Girls Vote Second Annual Ball
The theme of this year’s event said it all – “Black Excellence: Passing the Torch, Preserving the Legacy.”
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Friends, members and supporters filled The Forum to celebrate the accomplishments of black women in politics and activism in the past year.
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Pictured (LtoR) Rhonda Nelson-Boglin, Women Behind the Community Inc. president; Cameron Green, Enterprise Holdings account manager; Donovan Hatcher, SunTrust vice president of business banking; and Phylliss Nelson, Women Behind the Community Inc. immediate past president
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Pictured (LtoR) Marche Templeton, Support A Cause Foundation For The Arts executive director; and Oana Brooks, Brooks Law founding partner
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Pictured (LtoR) Odette Ramos, Baltimore Women United co-chair; and Maya Rockeymore Cummings, Global Policy Solutions president
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Pictured (LtoR) Diana Richardson, New York State assemblywoman; and Nykidra Robinson, Black Girls Vote founder
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Pictured (LtoR) Shanta Harper, Climmovative clinical research professional; Sherri Fraling-Robinson, US Postal Service letter carrier; and Valerie Fraling, Baltimore Afro-American columnist
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Pictured (LtoR) Patricia Watson, Hood Adjacent Tees owner; and Danyell Smith, Black Girls Vote member
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Pictured (LtoR) Evans Anyanwu, City of Newark, NJ, director of community development; Steve Hockaday, Plainfield, NJ councilman; and Tiffany Loftin, NAACP Youth & College Division national director
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Pictured (LtoR) Kynnee Golder, Johns Hopkins Medicine human resources business partner; and Cortney Robertson, IBIM Girls founder
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Pictured (LtoR) John Barber, Keystone Mountain Lakes Regional Council of Carpenters representative; Tommy Mac, Baltimore union organizer; Viktor Adams, Viktor Investment Group CEO; and Jermaine Jones, Metropolitan Baltimore Council AFL-CIO Division president
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Pictured (LtoR) Keenan Geter, Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Human Services youth engagement specialist; Dana Robinson, Planned Parenthood of Maryland director of communications; Shakaria Buckson, Black Girls Vote communications specialist; and Anthony Jones, political consultant