Community Building

Speaking engagements bookend my time with OPAL. In 2021, Oracle Women’s Leadership invited me to join a panel called Oracle Women Making An Impact, on the recommendation of a fellow OPAL leader. I shared the Audrey Hepburn line that became the event write-up’s title: nothing is impossible, the word itself says I’m possible. Four years later, at the 2025 NAAAP Leadership Convention, I co-led a workshop with three OPAL board officers called Unleashing Your Quiet Superpower: Forging Space for Authentic Leadership, on empathy and storytelling as a form of influence that doesn’t require being the loudest voice in the room. It was one of the best attended sessions of the convention, full house, and Oracle’s marketing team even built a rotating poster to promote it across social.