Thank you NABJ for recognizing my reporting on the people of my community. I work so others know their stories and voices are relevant, their  ideas and contributions are powerful and their pain is real.    Elaine Houston, reporter WNYT, Albany, NY

OUR STORY

I was a reporter who'd taken a new job at a television station when I felt the sting of corporate America doing what it does so often with women of color and that is try and marginalize me. It started very early; during probation that they began to insinuate I wasn't good enough. While that was management's belief, it wasn't mine. I knew I had the education, experience, solid reporting skills, the ability to project my voice in a professional public speaking manner and I knew how to be personable while giving the news.

 However, I had to work harder than I'd ever worked in my life to fight against the box that my bosses put me in through their implicit bias.

  It was because of that I decided that I had to tell the stories of women. I had to present a new perspective about women of color. I did that through my first book, THE FRIENDSHIPS BETWEEN WOMEN. It's a book of letters from women to women on perseverance. I next traveled to Africa and spoke to women in three countries on the challenges they faced and produced the documentary, TOUCH A WOMAN, TOUCH A ROCK.  I returned home and started a new television series for women called TODAY'S WOMEN.  All of these projects led me to start this website, www.SHEspeaks2me.com where I do stories on women of color from around the world.  In 2017, I began holding an annual summit for women to help them transform themselves in the person God created them to be. That is what got us here, but what keeps us going is seeing women succeed.  Elaine Houston

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There are many good agencies out there that help low income women but most of the time it's on the back end. That means after a women is in trouble and needs food, shelter, referrals, or counseling they try to come to her aid.  So for some of those women they remain in a vicious cycle of poverty.

But, we believe in helping women on the front end; that means helping her rise from poverty, speak their truth, writing their books, gaining training and education, becoming financially independent, and able to find affordable housing. Because we believe when a woman is educated her home changes. She is able to speak into her children's lives and help them become productive citizens.  We understand the Bible says 'the poor you will always have with you', but we don't believe women should make up the majority of the poor. In fact, we feel poverty is a man made structure.  And, we are committed to tearing it down!

For the past three years we have inspired women through our inspirational stories on our website, www.shespeaks2me.com   We have had sell out crowds attend our women's summits and now we just obtained a 501c3 non profit status so that among other things we can hold an entrepreneurial retreat for women. However, we need your help. Quite simply we need you to donate to our cause.    So please contribute  by attending our fundraising  events throughout 2020. If you can't make it then donate $1 dollar, $2.00, 20, or whatever you can.   We are determined to change the lives of women, one woman at a time.

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