ColorComm’s Young, Fabulous and Fly Creator Lauren Wesley Wilson Shares Her Goals For Black Women in Business

By Danielle Young via https://www.theroot.com

Black women have always made a way, no matter what. There’s not a lane for us? We create it. There’s not a seat at the table of us? We build the seat and the table. That’s exactly what Lauren Wesley Wilson has done with ColorComm.

Wilson once worked at a PR agency and noticed there was an extreme lack of women who looked liked her when she’d go out to events to network.

“I noticed there was not one person of color in leadership,” Wilson said.

Instead of seeing this as a chance to be the only black woman in the room, Wilson took it as a challenge to fill that same room with the very black women it was missing.

“If you don’t have senior leaders who look like you, young talent will leave you,” Wilson said.

So seven years ago, Wilson hosted a luncheon for professional women of color who worked in communications because she needed to meet the women who’d help her move and shake up the ladder.

And that, ladies and gents, was the beginning of ColorComm, the collective of women of color in communications who are all seeking like-minded women to connect, grow and create professional and personal …

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