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Join us for our first annual health and wellness brunch with a focus on mental health and self-care. You’ll experience Black Girl Bonding, Mental Health Panel, Health Screenings, Vendors, Chair Massages, Giveaways, & More.

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BLACK WOMEN BONDING

chair & Hand massages

mental health panel

Giveaways

health screenings

Vendors & more

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Our Featured Speaker

Lydia Glaize

AFL-CIO LABOR LIAISON

Lydia Glaize is a resourceful professional with over three decades of extensive leadership experience in Government, Non- Profit, Education, Public Religious Communities, and Labor Liaison. Diverse skill sets including IRC Regulations, municipal governance, and academic counseling and planning, Auditing and Labor mobilizing, recruitment and training. Innately passionate about facilitating the advancement of Underserved Populations, especially families, through the use of systems, tools, and policies.

Our Emcee

Tamara Abney

REIGNING MS. PENNSYLVANIA AMERICA

Tamara Abney is an entrepreneur, professional development trainer, and DEI business strategist. She is the owner and lead trainer at TAMARA ABNEY professional empowerment, a professional development consulting firm dedicated to helping businesses and business professionals maximize their potential to establish a distinct competitive edge. Tamara is also a women's health and homelessness advocate and founder of SisterFriend, Inc. a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit organization dedicated to menstrual hygiene management by providing products and education to vulnerable communities.

JESSICA GURLEY

Jessica Gurley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and therapist with over a decade of mental health experience. Jessica is the Owner of Social Work Consulting and Counseling (SWCC) LLC which provides therapy, supervision and consulting services for both individuals and organizations. Through SWCC alone, Jessica has presented to several universities, small and large size businesses, and non-profit organizations around the world.

CHANNING MORELAND

Dr. Channing L. Moreland is the Co-Owner and Clinician at Sanant Counseling & Wellness, LLC as well we the Senior Director of Strategic Programs and Services at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS), Office of Equity, Inclusion and Community Engagement and the inaugural director of the Pitt SHRS Wellness Pavilion located at the Pitt Homewood Community Engagement Center.

SHARISE NANCE

Sharise Nance (also known as the Compassion Fatigue Expert) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified EMDR Therapist, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Compassion Fatigue Specialist, Adjunct Professor, Award Winning Entrepreneur and Author. She is the co-owner and founder of HandinHand Counseling Services, LLC and has over 20 years of experience assisting individuals, couples and families.

Wellness Connection

Mental Health Panel

ROLAND FORD

The Line Dance King, Get in step with the Rhythm of Life And the Dancing DJ in Pgh, PA. We teach over 300 different soul line dances, Detroit Ballroom' and Chicago Stepping. We conduct Gospel Soul Line Dance events for church groups. We D J parties reunions, etc.

FELICIA SAVAGE
FRIEDMAN

With a background in community health and education, Felicia integrates trauma-informed wellness with Raja Yoga. For over 30 years Felicia has transformed lives with embodied antiracist organizing through Raja Yoga. Standing firm on the belief that we are all bound and dehumanized by systems of oppression, she envisions a humankind where we have dismantled these systems of oppression and humanely rebuilt new systems together.