OUR PRESIDENT
A Message from our President
Club Sisters,
It is with absolute bliss and humility that I greet you as the 30th President of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, Inc., the first organization created for people of color in 1896. My presidency, the journey we are embarking on together, has been a long time coming. When I entered the organization at four years old, I dreamed of this (and 34 years later here we are). This organization prepared me for such a time as this, and now I have to make good on all that was deposited within me. The theme for our 2018-2020 club year is “Utilizing Our Legacy as a Guide for Our Future, In Lifting As We Climb” (Sacrifice, Scholarship, Service, & Sisterhood).
This theme illuminates what it will take for us to overcome the obstacles we are currently facing. Our founding mothers came together because of sheer necessity and we must do the same. We have to stand together and be one organization with one voice. The time for comfort is over. There is work to
do and either we are going to ensure it is done or we will sit on the sidelines and accept whatever is given to us. We are strong women of the lineage of Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells, Francis E. Harper, and Mary B. Talbert. These women stared adversity in the face and made adversity look elsewhere. This type of strength, sacrifice, and selflessness is necessary for us to be effective in achieving our goals.
“Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves”- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin.
Lifting As We Climb,
Andrea Brooks-Smith,
NACWC, Inc. 30th President
NACWC OFFICERS
2018-2020
President
Ms. Andrea Brooks-Smith
1st Vice President
Ms. Lilyn Hill
2nd Vice President
Mrs. Opal Bacon
3rd Vice President
Ms. LaKeshia Battle
Chair, Executive Council
Mrs. Laura Jamerson
Treasurer
Mrs. Sandra Lewis
Financial Secretary
Mrs. Mary Ann Rogers
1st Recording Secretary
Mrs. Carol Cooper
2nd Recording Secretary
Ms. Mary Collier
Chaplain
Mrs. Sheryl Brady
Parliamentarian
Dr. Lenola Allen Sommerville
Statistician
Ms. Diane Johnson
Historian
Dr. Arthelda Busch Williams
PAST NATIONAL PRESIDENTS
Ms. Sharon R. Bridgeforth
Mrs. Evelyn J. Rising
Dr. Patricia L. Fletcher
Dr. Dolores M. Harris