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At MLK Breakfast, women call for more resources and greater support


If Charlotte is to succeed, it must create more opportunities for minorities to be in positions of leadership, so said a panel of women who spoke at the YMCA of Greater Charlotte’s 29th MLK Breakfast. 

The women, all in leadership positions, said it’s important to create an environment where minority communities can be mentored, thus creating a pipeline for the next generation of leaders of color. 

The breakfast is held annually to commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. But unlike in previous years, organizers of this year’s event said they were deliberate in selecting an all-women panel.

“We chose all women because we realize that a lot of challenges, as it relates to income gaps or climbing the corporate ladder, are often related or directly tied to women,” John Ham, board chair of the McCrorey Family YMCA, told Qcity Metro last week.

This year’s panel featured Krista Terrell, president of the Arts and Science Council (ASC); Kinneil Coltman, chief community and social impact officer for Advocate Health; Rocio Gonzalez, executive director of the Women’s Business Center of Charlotte; and Elizabeth Trotman, senior vice president of civic leadership programs and initiatives at Foundation For The Carolinas.

Close to 1,300 people attended the event, the YMCA’s first in-person MLK breakfast since the pandemic. 





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