2025 Women of Color Creating Wealth Award Nominees
- Seeds Scholars
- Apr 14
- 3 min read
Congratulations to our Seeds of Fortune Inc. shortlisted 2025 Nominees for our 11th Annual #WomenofColorCreatingWealth Awards @ JPMorgan Chase & Co. Harlem Branch on June 7, 2025 for our Northeast Awards and the Atlanta Marriott for the South, West, and Mid-West Awards in the Fall of 2025. These Women were recognized by their colleagues and peers as Women of Color trailblazers making the world and their work places more equitable for future generations.



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Aaliyah Shafiq Ely , Vice President, Global Marketing - The McDonald’s Division The Coca-Cola Company |
Carlene Graham, President, Redwood Residential |
Chelsea Holley, Director of Admissions, Spelman College |
Courtney Oliver, Paramount, Vice President Human Resources |
Dana Loatman, Executive Director, Virgil Abloh Foundation |
Darlene Blanco, Director of Workforce Development and Innovation City University of New York-College of Staten Island |
Darlene Heenan, Managing Director & Human Resources Business Partner BMO Financial Group |
Dr. April Leong, Principal, Liberation Diploma Plus High School Department of Education |
Dr. Janet Bentley-Ewers, Vice President, Senior Compliance Officer, Truist |
Dr. Sheila Tomlin-Reid, Department of Education as the Community and Political Director Brooklyn North High School |
Erika Lewis, Engagement & Partnerships, Global Business Marketing, TikTok |
Esha Bawa, Managing Director & Head of Strategy, Silicon Valley Bank |
Faye Iosotaluno, Chief Executive Officer, Tinder |
Filmawit Gebrezgher, Director, Capital Markets Investment Banking |
Folawiyo Campbell-Ajala, Senior Software Engineer at Google Deepmind |
Garance Choko, Founder/CEO, Coda Societies |
Ginah Nightingale, PharmD, MBA, Associate Director, Medical and Scientific Learning Excellence, Medical Affairs + Health Impact AbbVie |
Haizel McIntyre, LMSW, CFSW, CFEI®, CEO & Founder, Making Money Movers NYC |
Helen Lin, Chief Digital Officer, Publicis Groupe |
Ibitola Adesuyi, Associate Director, MIO Partners |
Janelle Panebianco, VP, External and Integrated Communications Papa John's International |
Janine Ting Jansen, Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Pfizer |
Jasmine Humphrey, Director, Campus & Cultural Engagement, LVMH |
Jazmyn W, Entrepreneur, Creator & Comedian |
Jetaun Davis-Anderson, Senior Associate Dean of Admissions, Emory University |
Joy Peña, VP Inclusive Culture at Walt Disney Company |
Kadian Tinto, COO, Tephra Digital |
Kareema Pearsall, Vice President, Business Insurance Department Leader - North Atlanta MMA Southeast, Marsh |
Kathleen Adams, Angel of Harlem, Co-Owner/Head of Marketing |
Kimberly Ross-Brown, Professor of Communications, Bluegrass Community and Technical College |
Lade King, Managing Director, Engineering COO at TPG |
lakeisha bowers, Community Partner Coordinator, Workforce1 |
Lannia S. Senior Director, Partnerships Candid |
Lisa Eiland, Division Chief, Neonatology, Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center |
Lissette Munoz, American Express, Vice President & General Manager, Client Management |
Lyndsay Levingston, Founder, SurviveHER Breast Cancer Awareness Nonprofit |
Makeba Green, Chair of the Board of Directors, The International Girls Academy |
Metty Fisseha, Director, Product Management Capital One |
Nadia Batchelor Chief Operating Officer, Jefferies Wealth Management |
Nakisha Davis, Vice President Nuveen Private Funds |
Nicia Fullwood, Principal, BELA All Girls Charter High School (Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy) |
Nicole K. Grimes, Ph.D. , CEO/Founder, Carib Biz Network |
Nicole Ndzibah, MBA, BS, AS, Executive Director, FIT Social Justice Center (SJC) |
@Nikki Taylor, TMMGI, Co-Founder |
Nyaniki Quarmyne, Head of Business Services and Transformation Wells Fargo, Managing Director, CAO office |
Obioma (Oby) Enyia, Marketing Executive | Head of North America Media The Coca Cola |
Olajumoke (Jumo) Ayandele, Ph.D., Human Security and counterterrorism Research NYU SPS Center for Global Affairs |
Richalin Rodney, Co-Owner, Run Road Trucking INC |
Seema Hingorani, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Investment Management |
Somia Farid Silber, CEO Edible Arrangements |
Sybil Wells, NYC Regional Executive Director, BUILD |
Tia Hodges, President and CEO MetLife Foundation |
Toyin Graham, Director of Global & Americas PR, Sol De Janeiro |
Vivian Young, Global Head Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs, JPMorgan Chase JP Morgan Chase |
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