Webinar: Winning Women: Celebrating Groundbreaking Black Creators (Week One) by BlogHer

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Winning Women: Celebrating Groundbreaking Black Creators (Week One)

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At BlogHer, we pride ourselves on doing everything in our power to ensure that our community is armed with knowledge and insight into how they can secure their own economic empowerment. That’s why we’re joining forces with the incredible Black creators within our community to honor Black History Month with our Winning Women series.

Join us on February 10th, 17th, and 24th at 1PM EST as we lend our platform to celebrate their successes, amplify their voices, and applaud how they’re using their platforms to make history.

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Agenda

Fireside Chat with Sarah Cooper & Michelle Buteau | Join Sarah Cooper and Michelle Buteau as they discuss the importance of finding your voice & making sure it’s heard. Hear how these two powerhouses found success by unabashedly being themselves while using comedy to incite change & start meaningful conversations.
Community Roundtable | Meet our BlogHer Creators community members! Join us in welcoming community members Krystal Henry, Mo Jones, & Kyra Mitchell Lewis to the BlogHer stage as they share how they've turned their passions to profit and found strength in community.

Presenters

Sarah Cooper

Comedian and Author

Sarah Cooper is an actor, comedian, and best-selling author. Her books How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings and 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings are both currently in development for series television. Sarah built her comedy career from the ground up while working for companies like Yahoo! and Google, where she was fed free lunches and lots of material. Sarah’s first Netflix special, “Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine,” was executive produced by Maya Rudolph and directed by Natasha Lyonne debuted on the steaming service October 27th 2020.

Michelle Buteau

Actress, Author, and Comedian

Michelle Buteau is an actress, author and comedian. She just published her first book Survival of the Thickest (Gallery Books) and released her first one-hour comedy special “Welcome to Buteaupia” (Netflix). She currently hosts “The Circle” for Netflix, which will return for Season 2 this Spring, and is in production on Season 2 of the BET+ original series “First Wives Club”. Buteau’s additional credits include the feature film “Always Be My Maybe” (Netflix) and the Netflix show “Tales of the City.” This spring she will be seen in the feature film “Marry Me”(Universal).

Mo Jones

Owner, moLife Speaks

Mo Jones is a Confident Speaking Coach empowering women to own the power of their voice in life and work. A speech language pathologist by trade, she uses proven strategies and techniques to journey women from fear to brave in building confident speaking skills.

Her passion is to help women use their voice to master the art of public speaking, go live on social media ande create riveting podcasts. This led her to create moLife Speaks, her coaching business, in which women learn to own the power of their story and own their voice.

Kyra Mitchell Lewis

Founder of Glow Up, Gyrl

Kyra Mitchell Lewis is a Georgia native and a graduate of Valdosta State University. Kyra has worked in the Marketing and Communications industry for more than 20 years. She is currently the Senior Strategic Marketing Manager at Cooper Lighting Solutions in Atlanta, GA, and Founder of Glow Up, Gyrl, a community for women on a mission to live a balanced and purpose-filled life.

Krystal Henry

Writer & Blogger

Krystal Henry is a writer, speaker, blogger, and creator of Around the Way Mom which serves as an international online platform for Black Moms to gain solutions that address their needs as women, partners, mothers, friends, and in business. In addition to empowering Moms through writing, workshops, and speaking, Krystal is a contributing writer for Baltimore's Child Magazine, CEOMMagazine and BlkWomen Hustle.