The quiet, rhythmic creak of her parents’ rocking chair underpins Jotaka Eaddy’s strong but friendly voice as she responds to my first question. Before pointedly answering the query, she offers some important context. “I’m sitting on my parents’ porch, outside of their home right now,” she says dreamily.
The South Carolina sun touches her face as she shifts slights to take a thoughtful pause. Fair, since she has a litany of accomplishments to her name. Eaddy is a respected leader in both corporate and nonprofit circles.
She sat at the helm of a C-Suite of a Silicon Valley based company, one of the Black women to do so. After “doing pretty well,” she semi-retired and moved full time into the social impact space, and launching her consulting firm Full Circle Strategies. Eaddy has been on the receiving end of a slew of recognitions and awards, and Oprah knows her name.
But for the sake of timeliness, I centered our conversation around her current point of passion (WWBW), a collective of Black women leaders across various sectors who convene on a weekly basis via Zoom to connect, uplift one another, and mine solutions. On the evening of July 21, the more than 44,000 women callers made history when almost immediately after the announcement that President Biden wouldn’t be seeking reelection, they raised more than $1 million in less than four hours. Since then a litany of other Zoom-based political interest groups , like White Women For Harris, for instance.
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