Kimberly Bryant
Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in 2011 to create pathways that she didn’t have in the 1970s, and that she didn’t see for her own daughter decades later.
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Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards
Tap dancer Dormeshia had a well-established career as a dancer from a young age, making her Broadway debut in the musical revue Black and Blue when she was just 13.
Estella Mims Pyfrom
Estella Mims Pyfrom was 72 when, in 2009, she founded Estella’s Brilliant Bus with $900,000 of her retirement savings. The mobile learning lab was equipped with more than a dozen computers and travels to underserved and under-resourced Florida communities, providing residents with access to technology and education.
Etta James
Blues and jazz singer Etta James experienced early success, but is also known for a major comeback later in her life.
Bernardine Evaristo
“When I won the Booker Prize in 2019 for my novel Girl, Woman, Other, I became an ‘overnight success’ – after forty years working professionally in the arts.”
Marie van Brittain Brown
She collaborated with her husband, an electronics technician, to design and create the first closed-circuit television security system, changing home security for generations to come.
Michelle Obama
American first lady, lawyer, bestselling author and producer
Michelle Buteau
American comedian, actor and writer
Norma Shirley
Jamaican chef Norma Shirley built a reputation in the U.S. serving “New England food with Jamaican flair” at her Massachusetts restaurant in the late 1970s. But as she told Essence magazine, “It’s my dream to open another restaurant in Jamaica where Blacks would be the majority clientele.”
Sonia Boyce
Sonia Boyce became the first woman of African descent to represent the U.K. at the Venice Biennale in 2022, the year she turned 60.