Tarana Burke is a '73 baby and turned the big 4-0 in September of 2013. After years of off and on professional and freelance writing and blogging, she decided to combine her passion for writing, fashion, fitness and the company of fabulous women into one amazing lifestyle website.
In her day to day life, Tarana is the director of the organization she co-founded in 2003 Just Be Inc. which supports young women of color in their journey towards womanhood. She also consults with small non-profit orgnizations providing assistance in organizational and resource development.
With plans to publish her first book and produce a documentary in the near future, Tarana keeps extremely busy. She has a life long committment to serving the causes of people of color, with a particular focus on young women and girls. She resides in Philadelphia, PA with her teenaged daughter, who is a multi-talented artist and is made of magic.
Buffie Carruth is a model, actress, author and fitness expert. After working as an urban model for nearly a decade, in 2007 she switched fields into fitness. After garnering a major following on Youtube via her at home workout videos, Buffie created "Bodynomics" a company dedicated to health and fitness for full-figured women because she felt there was a void in the African American female community.
She took her research head on, reading and speaking with fitness trainers in order to obtain the tools needed to bring awareness to the masses.
In 2012, she became a Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) through The National Academy of Sports Medicine; and in August 2013, Carruth teamed up with 718 Productions and released the fitness DVD “Grade A Glutes” which was Directed and Produced by: Amalh "Iam Supaproducer" Mendelsohn.
Buffie's website (www.bodynomics.com) offers fitness tips, videos, fitness products and her personal training services.
Carolyn Edgar is lawyer, writer and a single mother. The order of those three things changes daily, but she's always at least those three things. Even as a graduate of Harvard Law School, a former law firm partner and current vice president at a Fortune 500 company, Carolyn practices law to pay the bills and writes for love and sanity. She's also an avid reader, a social media maven, an indifferent yoga student, and a fan of most sports, especially tennis. She blogs about all of these things, and more on her blog CarolynEdgar.com.
In addition to this blog, she contributes to:
Cocoa Mamas, Married My Sugar Daddy; Technorati; and Women’s Channel
and has also contributed to Co-Parenting, The Fresh Xpress, My Brown Baby and Black ‘n Bougie. Carolyn's personal essays have been published in Reconstruction Magazine and Mirror on America: Short Essays and Images from Popular Culture (Bedford/St. Martin’s).
Montgomery, Alabama native Perry Varner, Creative Director of MOCA Magazine & the Style Experience a national showcase for aspiring designers & models of the African Diaspora, is one of the country’s foremost historians of Black Fashion and a lifestyle expert.
He splits his time between Alabama, Harlem and Atlanta, Georgia consulting on myriad high profile fashion projects. He specializes in brand marketing and other creative solutions for his broad clientele and for nearly two decades he has worked with many corporations, non-profit organizations, celebrities, professional athletes, models and reality television stars including: American Idol Ruben Studdard, SoSo Def All Stars, America’s Next Top Model Eva Marcelle Pigford, NFL All Star & Reality star Terrell Owens, BET’s The Game Star Hosea Chanchez, Bravo reality stars designer Recco Chapple & Africa Miranda, Project Runway’s Ken Laurence & Anthony Williams, and more.
He has been a guest lecturer and panelist at several schools, colleges & universities around the country and was a Fashion Specialist for the famed Harlem Children Zone in NYC. His first novel about Fashion & African American people is due out this Spring 2014.
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