If someone asks, do you know Lynn Farris? Their answer would most likely be: of course I do. She’s a woman of valor and substance and she will do anything to make those she loves smile. One of her sorority sisters, Vanessa Caston LaFleur, Louisiana State Representative, has coined the phrase, “Lynn Love” because of her unselfish giving.

If someone asks, do you know Lynn Farris? Their answer would most likely be: of course I do. She’s a woman of valor and substance and she will do anything to make those she loves smile. One of her sorority sisters, Vanessa Caston LaFleur, Louisiana State Representative, has coined the phrase, “Lynn Love” because of her unselfish giving. Lynn was raised around love and that is shown in her free spirit of giving. At the age of 12, her father died and her mother and grandmother reared her and her sister Kim with a spirit of love, gratefulness, and giving. Friends would always be welcome to stay at their house and even go on vacations with the family, so it’s natural to her. To this day, her friends call her home “the home of peace”. The Farris family makes you feel at home anytime you visit.

Louisiana Woman

Lynn Farris is a social worker and college instructor who was born and raised in Baton Rouge and Baker, Louisiana. She received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from the University at Louisiana at Lafayette (formerly USL) and a Master of Social Work Degree from Southern University at New Orleans.

She retired from the Department of Children and Family Services and is currently employed as the Client Services Supervisor at the East Baton Rouge Law Office of the Public Defender. She is also an adjunct professor at the Baton Rouge Site of Upper Iowa University and has taught at Southern University and A&M College – Baton Rouge, LA in the School of Social Work. She enjoys imparting knowledge to students as they are sponges who desire to have an instructor who actually cares about them. Little do her students know that they give her life by listening and valuing her experience and expertise.

Exceeding Expectations

Lynn considers herself a servant leader. A servant leader leads by serving others. In other words, servant leaders place the interests and needs of their followers ahead of their own self-interests and needs. Generally, they value the development of their followers, building their communities, acting authentically, and sharing power. She doesn’t like selfish leaders who think it’s all about them. People serve because they love their respective organizations, and they should feel like they are valued and appreciated for their service. After all, we serve our organizations for free, our free time, and our efforts. A leader with a bad attitude is a turn-off for her. However, she has been blessed to serve under several great leaders.

Lynn has always had great leadership qualities. From elementary school, being named most courteous, to high school serving in various organizations, through college, singing with the USL Gospel Choir, then later pursuing a Master of Social Work at SUNO. She has a fire that burns inside of her that keeps her going. There are always improvements that can be made. She doesn’t like “good enough”. She usually strives to “exceed expectations.”

Once she finished college, she was initiated into Nu Gamma Omega Chapter, South Central Region in 1991. Her late cousin, Mary Alice Gray Darby, was instrumental in her desire to become a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. She has been a member for 32 consecutive years and is a Life Member and member of the Heritage Club of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Lynn has served in various positions in AKA. In her chapter, Nu Gamma Omega, she has served as President, Vice President, Hostess, and Corresponding Secretary and has led various committees. She currently serves as the President of Nu Gamma Omega Educational and Charitable Foundation, Inc. and Chairs the Empower Our Families Initiative.

Serving on all Levels

On the Regional Level, she has served as Louisiana State Connection Coordinator, General Chairman of the South Central Regional Conference in 2013, Chief of Staff for the 25th South Central Regional Director, Katina Semien Smothers, and currently serves as the South Central Regional Hostess for the South Central Region under the leadership of Joya T. Hayes.

On the International Level, she served on the sorority’s Investigative Team for 12 consecutive years under three International Presidents. Last year, she was appointed by the 30th International President, Dr. Glenda Baskin Glover, and served as one of the co-chairmen for the 69th Virtual Boule. In July, she was elected as a member-at-large of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Educational Advancement Foundation.

She has been honored by a few organizations namely, A Celebration of Women, an organization that recognizes servant leaders in the community, Xi Nu Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and Lamba Kappa Kappa Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. to recognize her community service in the Baton Rouge Community. She believes in giving back and helping others. It is a pet peeve of hers when others refuse to help people because of fear they will do better or just as well as them. God blesses us to bless others and she feels she is blessed because she freely uses the gifts God gives her. She also feels that jealousy is such a wasted emotion. Lynn feels that God will give her what He wants her to have and if she doesn’t get it, it’s not meant for her.

She is a member of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the Southern University Alumni Home Chapter and the Baton Rouge Chapter of the NAACP. She also serves as a Commissioner of the EBR Housing Authority, the Board of Directors for the Louisiana Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), and the East Baton Rouge Mayor President’s Women’s Advancement Commission.

Lynn Love

She is also active in her church, Greater King David Baptist Church, where she has been a member for 33 years. She is the Founder and 1st President of the Greater King David Singles Ministry, a member of Usher Board #2, and has served as the Church Anniversary and Ministry Recruitment Day Chairman.

Lynn doesn’t have any biological children, but she spoils her two nephews, Javon and Jorrin as though they are her own. Her mother Lois Farris, is her biggest cheerleader. You can usually find Ms. Farris traveling with Lynn and sometimes, they will let her sister Kim, tag along.

Lynn wants her legacy to be, that she helped me when nobody else would and she reached out to me during a very dark time in my life. She believes we are put on this earth to help others and if we don’t help them, we surely shouldn’t hurt them.

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Hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, Amy grew up loving family, God, and country…and Alabama football. An entrepreneur at heart, Amy came up with a novel idea to create a place where everyone could learn the fundamentals of gun safety in a fun, and unique, atmosphere. 

Hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, Amy grew up loving family, God, and country…and Alabama football.

A move to Atlanta would lead Amy to becoming a top graduate of Le Cordon Bleu, where she channeled her creativity into culinary expertise, and her outgoing, positive personality into five star customer service.

Building the Gold Standard

After working in some of the country’s top restaurants and hotels, Amy met her husband Brian, a proud Marine and entrepreneur who had launched one the nation’s top minority owned security companies. Together they built the company into what is the gold standard for security companies with clients including the Atlanta Airport, the Georgia Capital, and numerous court houses, and government building throughout the southeastern United States.

Insight – A Virtual Experience

Amy, an entrepreneur at heart, came up with the idea to create a place where everyone from novices to experts, could learn the fundamentals of gun safety and basic to advanced shooting skills. The idea of a virtual experience, totally safe, comfortable, and without the cost of ammunition and gun rentals seemed like a logical and exciting concept. Amy couldn’t help but to infuse her sense of style and décor into the design of Insight, including a custom bar designed by one of Atlanta’s top modern architects.  

Amy is excited to be a part of such a positive and fun startup and looks forward to helping people across the country to be skilled, safe, and secure.

Website: https://insightvirtualballistics.com/

I’m forever grateful that you chose me for your magazine. Thank You   Deborah Dolman.

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Self-described as personable and enthusiastic, Beth leads by adhering to the values of the sisterhood and  challenges herself to operate and function differently. She uses her valuable life experiences to teach others how to collaborate and how to work with people of different perspectives and views of the world.

Beth Monnin, the 27th National President of Phi Mu Fraternity, 2014-2018 was initiated into the sorority at Rho chapter, Hanover College in 1980. Self-described as personable and enthusiastic, Beth led her organization by adhering to the values of the sisterhood and challenging Phi Mu to operate and function differently through policy governance.

Valuable Life Experience

Beth knows what her own sorority experience has meant in her life, the growth opportunities and support of women who are not just friends, but Sisters who have held her accountable and pushed her to grow and evolve as a person. Sorority life brings valuable experience, in that it teaches members how to collaborate and how to work on initiatives and projects with people of different perspectives and views of the world. Beth believes that ultimately, whether you are a woman entering the workforce, raising children, or chairing a community philanthropic event, this experience becomes invaluable.

Greek Life

In her professional life, Beth has had the amazing opportunity to partner her passion of Greek life with her job at CLC. CLC is the nation’s leading collegiate trademark licensing agency, representing over 700 colleges, universities and other top collegiate brands including Greek organizations in protecting, marketing and managing their brands through a customized and strategic approach focused on each individual client. 

While the Greek business is relatively new to CLC, Beth has had the pleasure of working with Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. since 2019 and more recently with Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. for the past year since the spring of 2021. Through these partnerships Beth has been able to collaborate with Cerese D and the beautiful jewelry options that the business has to offer members of both organizations.

Embodying the lines of her Phi Mu Creed, “Being steadfast in every duty, small or large,” Beth exhibits this mentality at CLC when working with licensed vendors and the national organizations. “My job is to protect and preserve the brands of the clients that I am directly responsible to.  Brand loyalty is built upon consistency and quality and the partnerships I have developed with the licensed vendors mean they know that CLC and our partner organizations are holding them responsible for the integrity of the brand.   When the licensed vendors produce outstanding product that reflects well upon the national organizations, this is a win-win for all involved.”

Community Member

Outside of her professional and Phi Mu life, Beth is a member of St. Augustine Church in Minster, Ohio and has served for over 25 years as the Chairwoman of the Miss Oktoberfest Scholarship pageant (held annually in October during Ohio’s second largest Oktoberfest gathering). Beth and her husband of 30 years who was a member of Theta Chi at Purdue University, have 4 adult children.

Beth Monnin feels fortunate and blessed to have had the experiences of her sorority life provide such a strong foundation for all that has followed both personally and professionally. “I love my life-my family and my job in which I am able to extend my passion for the Greek experience and help my clients grow their brands.”

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Dr. Mia K. Wright is inspiring people around the globe to do the unthinkable and pursue their passion for living. Her messages are encouraging that lead to stories of how she help others to begin again and complete unfinished plans.

Dr. Mia K. Wright is inspiring people around the globe to do the unthinkable and pursue their passion for living.

Mia’s book, UNTHINKABLE, has challenged readers to elevate their life’s platform by demonstrating how to overcome boundaries and self-imposed limits. Mia is a powerful speaker, who encourages others with uplifting messages, relevant life stories and life skills that apply to faith-based and corporate sectors. Her messages are inspiring as well as encouraging. Mia elevates others with purposeful thinking and action with a call to action. People respond with stories of how she inspired them to begin again and complete unfinished plans. She is a sought-after speaker, having shared transformational messages in churches, town halls, conventions, corporate venues, schools, prisons, and mud huts worldwide. 

Church Leadership

Mia is the Co-Pastor and Executive Director of Ministry at The Fountain of Praise, where she and her husband, Dr. Remus E. Wright, lead a mega-church with 20,000 members. Their church was honored to host the funeral for the late George Floyd in 2020. Mia was licensed and ordained into the ministry in 2005, and she is responsible for the social media and digital platforms that build engaging membership networks. 

In addition to her church leadership and professional speaking platforms, Mia fulfils her passion as the Executive Director of Metamorphosis, Inc., a women’s empowerment organization. “Meta” encompasses a life-changing women’s conference, compassionate projects; empowerment seminars; a mentoring program for young ladies; and international programs. Through her work, thousands have embraced life transformations, locally and abroad, in conferences hosted in Brazil, Tanzania and South Africa.

Foundation for Change

Her life’s work is to help others formulate a foundation for change. Dr. Mia K. Wright received her doctorate from The University of Southern California in 2022. Her research on Social Cognitive Motivations for Group Participation and the Development of Social Capital paved the way for future digital religious exploration.

In 2005, Mia received her Master of Divinity degree with Honors from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. She participated in a Study Abroad Program on the History and Relevance of the First Century Church in Tunisia, North Africa. Her Bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Austin in Biology and Chemistry prepared her for a career in the pharmaceutical industry. Mia worked for Merck and Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals and was highly successful as a development-training specialist. Astra Merck’s 1999 Corporate Report featured her project for innovative customer engagement. 

Accomplished

Mia is a TEDx Speaker, a Senior Fellow with the American Leadership Forum – Class XLV, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and The Links, Inc. In addition, she serves on the board of trustees for the Holocaust Museum Houston. She received numerous awards for her engagement and concern for her community.

Beyond her impressive academic background and professional accomplishments, her most significant achievement is her family. She and her husband of 30 years are parents to three sons who fulfill their life’s purposes as a minister, an attorney, and a medical doctor.

Go here to learn more and to purchase Mia’s book “Unthinkable: Do the Unordinary to Experience the Extraordinary“

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Keisha Lance Bottoms is a CNN Political Commentator, based in Atlanta, Georgia, where she served as the 60th Mayor. A visionary leader in bringing equitable outcomes to the forefront of government and commerce, she is proof that “a dream deferred is never a dream denied” in her current position.

Keisha Lance Bottoms is a CNN Political Commentator, based in Atlanta, Georgia, where she served as the 60th Mayor. She is a visionary leader in bringing equitable outcomes to the forefront of government and commerce. Keisha became the first Mayor in Atlanta’s history to have served in all three branches of government, having previously served as a Judge and a City Council member. As Mayor, she committed herself to realizing her vision of “One Atlanta” – an affordable, resilient, and equitable Atlanta.

Sworn in on January 2, 2018, Keisha served as Mayor during one of the most challenging times in the history of Atlanta. In the midst of a global pandemic and a racial justice movement, Keisha became a leading spokesperson regarding the challenges and opportunities facing cities and leaders across America.

Proactive Measures

While navigating these unprecedented challenges, the Bottoms Administration was able to remain focused on the resilience of Atlanta, negotiating and closing the largest real estate transaction in the history of Atlanta, and one of the largest in the Southeast United States, delivering millions of dollars in community benefits to people across the city.

Keisha took proactive measures to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the City and its agencies. As a result, during one of the worst economic  downturns the world has ever faced, the Bottoms Administration delivered four years of balanced budgets, without resorting to property tax increases, layoffs or furloughs of City employees. At the conclusion of her term, City’s reserves remained at a near high of $181M, far exceeding the requirements of the City Charter.

Shaped by a childhood and professional career that highlighted the inequalities amongst Americans, Keisha led her Administration in undertaking several major initiatives that would seek to eradicate systemic issues facing Atlanta, while creating a model for all cities to follow.

Building a Model

The major initiatives included:

• Welcoming nine Fortune 500 companies who established a global or regional headquarters in Atlanta, helping the city add $11 billion to its total economic output and attracting $4.5 billion in total capital investment. Also ensuring that developments that would reshape Atlanta included historic levels of community benefits that would lift-up Atlanta’s most vulnerable. These benefits included affordable housing requirements, securing the funding necessary to launch a city-wide affordable housing trust fund, technical school training program, and city-wide savings account for public school children.

• Closing the City Jail to U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, eliminating cash bail bonds for non-violent offenders, and leading the transformation of the City’s jail into a diversion center that prioritizes providing individuals with the human services they need to make permanent change in their lives versus an endless cycle of incarceration.

• Took the landmark decision to remove members of the Atlanta Police Department from joint operations with the United States Department of Justice due to DOJ’s refusal to allow officers to wear body cameras. Shortly after taking this action against the Federal government, the United States Department of Justice announced that Federal agents would be required to wear body cameras when executing search warrants or making pre-planned arrests.

• Leveraging a whole of government approach to add over 7,000 units of affordable housing, including multifamily, senior-living, and single-family developments. This effort was bolstered by issuing $140 million in new housing opportunity bond funds and making nearly $6 million in financial down payment assistance available for Atlanta’s legacy residents to purchase homes.

• Establishing the “HomeFirst” $50 million investment ($25 million public and $25 million private). Projects funded include the creation of 550 permanent supportive housing units, over 1,000 shelter beds, housing for single women and families experiencing homelessness, and legal assistance for eviction protection for over 250 families.

• Engaging with Partners for Home to execute the LIFT Initiative, providing more than $17 million in funding for emergency hotels and rapid rehousing. This resulted in the placement of nearly 1,000 people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing.

• Utilizing innovative and resourceful leadership, the City financed infrastructure projects totaling over $3.59 billion for airport, water and wastewater, and multi-family / affordable housing projects. This included the opening of Westside Park, Atlanta’s largest greenspace, which features a 2.4-billion-gallon water reservoir that increases Atlanta’s emergency water supply from three days to up to 90 days.

• Leading Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, traditionally one of the busiest in the world, through the COVID-19 pandemic by quickly reducing operating expenses, implementing budgetary reductions, utilizing federal relief grants to stabilize finances, and restructuring debt for near term savings, amongst other cost cutting measures. These measures ensured the City’s airport bonds continue to be rated among the highest of airport bonds in the country. Notably, the airport became the first airport in the world to receive a LEED Platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council, recognizing the City and the Airport’s sustainability efforts.

• Ensuring diverse opinions and perspectives were brought to government processes by creating the City’s first Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, the Office of Violence Prevention and appointing the City’s first Director of LGBTQ Affairs.

• Creating government transparency and fostering trust with the public by creating the Office of the Inspector General and rollout of the most far-reaching financial transparency platform in the City’s history – Atlanta’s Open Checkbook.

• Opened three new police precincts, two new fire stations, two new EMS facilities, and two new @Promise Centers to provide all Atlanta residents, regardless of neighborhood, with access to critical services.

• Successfully hosted College Football Playoff National Championship Games, the Major League Soccer All Star Game, the National Basketball Association All Star Game and Super Bowl LIII, which included unprecedented community benefits – a $2.4 million renovation of John F. Kennedy Park on Atlanta’s Westside, more than 20,000 trees planted throughout the community and the seamless coordination of 40 federal, state and local public safety agencies.

• Ensured several of Atlanta’s historical inequities were respectfully remembered, including the Atlanta Child Murders and the preservation of the Chattahoochee Brick Company land. Keisha’s steadfast leadership and equity-focused philosophy have led to numerous accolades and leadership positions, including having served as the Chair of the Community Development and Housing Committee and the Census Task Force for the United States Conference of Mayors and as a Trustee for the African American Mayor’s Association. She was also selected to Chair the Platform Committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention and serves as the DNC’s Vice Chair of Civic Engagement and Voter Protection.

High Honors

Tracing her family’s roots to a slave plantation in Georgia, it was Keisha’s highest honor to be named the 2020 Georgian of the Year by Georgia Trend Magazine. She also was named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year and was named a member of Ebony Magazine’s prestigious Power 100 List. She has also been honored as a BET 100 Entertainer and Innovator of the Year and was named the Smart Cities Dive 2020 Leader of the Year. Keisha was also the recipient of the Distinguished Civil Rights Advocate Award presented by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law in recognition of her equity-driven leadership to help guide and protect marginalized communities. 

Keisha is the daughter of R&B icon Major Lance and Sylvia Robinson. She and her husband, Derek, are parents to four children.

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Wendy Turner Miller feels strongly about ignoring naysayers, not taking ‘no’ for an answer, thinking outside the box, and believing in yourself— all have one major thing in common: pushing past fear.

I’ve always felt that the purpose of life is to evolve and create growth opportunities for both myself and for others. The efforts we make towards achieving dreams—ignoring naysayers, not taking ‘no’ for an answer, thinking outside the box, believing in yourself—have one major requirement in common: pushing past fear. In fact, the negativity of naysayers often acts as the premium gas that motivates me to do my research, ensure I always have a strong base of knowledge, challenge myself to be constantly learning, work with an open mind, and never stop listening.

Embrace Life’s Journey

The essential elements of life include home life, children, family and work. The continual struggle to create work/home integration is forever challenging and forever changing. I committed myself from the onset to be the best wife and mom that I could be, all while continuously learning and practicing law. More importantly, I wanted to be an example to my children. I always wanted to show them that love, hard work, compassion for others and true commitment to your priorities can successfully co-exist, as my parents taught me. In addition to instilling in me the importance of treating others with kindness and respect, they also encouraged me to build my confidence, set out with ambition, and develop a work ethic that they knew would be important in my life’s journey.

My first job out of law school was at a small law firm that did a lot of bankruptcy work for municipalities and in the automotive industry. It was there that I started learning bankruptcy law through hands-on experience. I had my first son, Kirk, and then my second, son Kyle, 4 years later. I realized at that time that working 60 hours each week for someone else in the traditional office environment was not my vision to best integrate my work/home balance.

So I started my own law practice by taking on criminal and probate assignment work through the courts in addition to bankruptcy law, which I already knew well. In this chapter of my life, I was again pushing through the fear of the unknown, learning a totally different sector of the law, and moving towards my quest to create my own journey. During school hours I would appear in court for court appearances and would later pick up my kids from school. We did homework, played, and had dinner together each night. I would put them to bed and then work until 2am developing reports, drafting motions, and preparing for trials. The next day, I would wake up and do it all over again. During that time, I remember developing the skills of thinking fast on my feet and learning to strongly articulate my thoughts and feelings, all the while evolving and honing my skills and opinions. I learned that each new chapter of life would continue to pose different challenges and provide different perspectives.

Work Towards a Forever-Changing World

In the 1990s, Janet Reno was the U.S. Attorney General yet there were hardly any women in the US Trustees Offices and few Black females in these positions in the entire nation. Kudos to Janet Reno for seeing the need and the opportunity to make a change and to create a more equitable and inclusive membership for the Trustee panel. There were five open positions for Chapter 7 Trustees in the Eastern District of Michigan and I knew that I had the knowledge base and the experience needed to do the work, so I applied.

Fast-forward to February 1999. After multiple interviews, I was appointed as a panel Trustee by the US Trustees Offices, a component of the Department of Justice, to serve in this position. To further enhance my need to mentor and teach others, I became an adjunct professor teaching bankruptcy law at a local law school. This additional position allowed me to give back and teach something that I was very passionate about to young, eager-to-learn students. It was here, while a professor, that I realized how very important perspective is in our lives. New experiences create personal growth.

In addition to running and growing SIS, I still do trustee work today. This work gives me an amazing perspective on business—what works, what doesn’t work, and the best ways to run a business. Every day I challenge myself to constantly work on becoming my best self, learn from each moment, pick up new skills, and look at situations from new perspectives.

Challenge Yourself and Be Your Own Mentor

Soon after my divorce, I realized the absolute need, as a single mom, to create financial longevity and stability for my children, particularly for my special needs son. My law practice and Chapter 7 Panel Trustee positions were not something I could pass on to them; however, creating a company and a legacy for my children was, and it became a passion and my vision. Once again, I had to push back the fear of the unknown. I wanted to establish a business in an industry that weathered storms and would always be necessary. Through intense research and networking, I realized that service work, particularly waste management, janitorial services, and industrial cleaning were mainstays. These service industries have seen a steady, substantial gain in both revenue and the need for each in facility maintenance services. I saw an opportunity.

I created a business plan and incorporated Superior Innovative Solutions, LLC (“SIS”) in 2018. I started focusing on automotive work but quickly branched out to other industries including engineering firms, construction firms, utility companies, hospitals, municipalities and the US government. I am strongly committed to SIS becoming a premiere, one-stop shop for a company’s facility maintenance needs. I believe that building this business will not only provide a legacy for my kids, but will also allow for my sons to do things their own way. I want to challenge women to think outside of the traditional box. I am impelled to undertake endeavors knowing that I’m working for more than just myself.

Push Past Fear and Reach the Destination Your Past has Led You To

Are there many women who do what I do? No. There are still men who do not see my intense commitment to giving superior, safe and on-time solutions with a talented team of experts. Have I received some not-so-nice comments? Absolutely. But I am living proof that women can thrive in different industries and different positions in different chapters of their lives, and that seeing opportunities from new perspectives can build entire businesses. Maybe even empires!

https://www.sisautomotive.com/

Wendy’s Background

Wendy Turner Miller is an entrepreneur, attorney, adjunct bankruptcy law professor, Chapter 7 United States Bankruptcy Trustee for the Eastern District of Michigan, and servant leader who is committed to superior business and community service, all the while advocating for women’s growth in leadership and development. She received her undergraduate Degree at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and her Juris Doctorate at Howard University School of Law in Washington, DC.

She currently services as the President and CEO of Superior Innovative Solutions, LLC, (“SIS”), which company, with its roots in the automotive arena, specializes in industrial cleaning, COVID-19 disinfecting and cleaning, janitorial services, hydro-blasting, vac truck services, and waste management.

SIS is a certified, 100 percent minority/woman owned and operated business committed to exceeding the expectations of our customers with superior, innovative, safe and time driver work product and service to each of our private, public and municipal clients.

Wendy is also an owner of Blue Springs Metals, LLC, in Blue Springs, MS, and Georgetown Metal Processing, LLC, in Georgetown, KY, both ventures with Toyota Tsusho America, which involve blanking and slitting steel at the Mississippi plant and aluminum on the Kentucky facility.

Wendy further serves as a Chapter 7 US Bankruptcy Trustee since 1999, hearing over 2,500 cases per year, a job that involves the discovery of undisclosed assets, the liquidation of assets, and the payment of funds to creditors.

She has provided legal services, specifically Bankruptcy Law assistance through her law firm, Law Offices of Wendy Turner Lewis, PLLC, representing debtors, creditors and financial restructuring clients since 1995.

She is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, The Renaissance (MI) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, National Associations of Bankruptcy Trustees, National Bar Association, and The Wolverine Bar Association.

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WHY WE STARTED CERESE D MAGAZINE

One of the greatest pleasures while growing our brand has been getting to know our community of customers and learning their stories. Among the people we have profiled over the past 5 years are leaders in their communities and churches, teachers, business owners and executives, entrepreneurs, motivational speakers, youth leaders, mothers, military veterans, and even a trainer of astronauts. Some of their stories are similar, and many are unique, but they are all about bold, strong, outspoken, and sometimes quiet leaders, that are blazing a trail towards change in one way or another. 

These are loyal clients that inspire us, and we are honored that they support Cerese D Jewelry. They are incredible role models for our brand.

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