Regina Jackson
Regina Jackson is the President and C.E.O. of the East Oakland Youth Development Center.
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Luna Ekundayo
Luna Ekundayo founder/Creator KANJU GIRLS and organizer of the first Black Girls March Oakland March 30,2019.
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Vanessa Wyche is the first black person of any gender to become the Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center in 2018.
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Raya Reaves founder City Girl Savings
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Virgie M. Ammons invented the fireplace damper and received a patent for it 1975.
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Jacqueline Copeland-Carson, COO of AnitaB.org.
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Cheryl Boone Issacs was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, making her the third woman and first black person to hold the position in 2013.
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Deliah L. Beasley in 1925 was the first black woman to be published regularly in a major metropolitan newspaper, the Oakland Tribune in California.
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Fania Davis founded RJOY (Resorative Justice of Oakland Youth).
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Ruth Beckford In 1947 founded the first recreational modern dance department in the United States at the Oakland (California) Department of Parks and Recreation.
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