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BECOMING A W.I.S.E.R. WOMAN WISE ® INTELLIGENT ® SUCCESSFUL ® EMPOWERED ® RESPECTED SATURDAY MARCH 21, 2009 |
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Dee Dixon is a successful African-American entrepreneur, a woman leading a growing family business and a mother who found a way to provide for her own family and to create something of value for the Charlotte community. She has built Pride Magazine into an important voice for all of the Queen City and has set Pride Communications, her umbrella company, on a solid path of doing a variety of public relations and marketing ventures. The Pride Sunset Jazz Series and Pride Awards Gala are recognized as two major events in Charlotte which promote diversity, cultural awareness and financial support for worthy causes.
Dee has previously served on the board of directors of the Mint Museums and currently serves the boards of the Charlotte Chamber and CRVA. In 2003, she received the Goody’s Powder Community Leader of the Year Award for her role in helping make the Charlotte community a better place and was recognized as a LINK Leading Lady in 2005. She is co-founder of What Women of Color Want and Women’s Inter-Cultural Exchange (WIE). What Women of Color Want was a series of events on career, business and market-driven issues relevant to minority women. WIE is non-profit organization designed to build social capital and trust among women of all races.
She was also a 2005 Charlotte Business Woman of the Year Finalist and one of the 2005 Maya Angelou “Women Who Lead” honorees. Dee was named Charlotte Business Women of the Year for 2006 and also awarded the Key to the City of Asheville, NC.
Ms. Dixon has recently founded another dynamic non-profit organization under the Pride umbrella called PEEP – Pride Entrepreneur Education Program – which serves to help eliminate future socio-economic disparities in the African American community by promoting education, vocational skills and entrepreneurship among youths ages 15-25. |
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Kelly Love Johnson is a freelance writer, editor, and author. Formerly managing editor for Skirt! magazine, Johnson most recently worked as communications director for a Congressional campaign in South Carolina. Her first book, Skirt! Rules for the Workplace: An Irreverent Guide to Advancing Your Career, came out in January 2008 under Globe Pequot Press’s Skirt! Books imprint. She got her first job at age 15, worked full-time through two college degrees, and earned her management skills badge by swimming with sharks and being thrown to the wolves. She hasn’t worn pantyhose or fetched coffee in more than 10 years. Johnson lives in Charleston, SC, and is currently working on a collection of essays entitled Misadventures in Feminism.
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