Black Footwear Forum Advisory Committee
Providing invaluable guidance and expertise for the Black Footwear Forum organization
Brandis Russell
Converse
Dr. D’Wayne Edwards
PENSOLE Lewis College of Business & Design
Portia Blunt
Reebok
David Ballin
Puma
LaShae Boone-McCray
RG Barry Brands
Jazerai
Allen-Lord
Founder, True to Size Agency
Kris Wright
NIKE
Darla Pires DeGrace
DeGrace Group Consulting
Dace Graham
Target
Chris Dixon
Timberland
Sabria Butler
FDRA
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News relevant to Black Footwear Professionals
2022 Black History Month Shoe-In Show Series
Listen to our 2022 BHM Shoe-In Episodes on the way forward in footwear featuring Converse's Brandis Russell, Tamara Odom, and Brodrick Foster, Sneaker Strategist, Consultant & Designer Jazerai Allen-Lord, and Pensole Founder Dr. D'Wayne Edwards. listen here
African American Footwear Forum Reimagined as Black Footwear Forum – Advisory Committee Announced
The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) and PENSOLE Lewis College of Business & Design, cofounders of the African American Footwear Forum (AAFF), have announced the rebranding of the AAFF to the Black Footwear Forum (BFF) effective immediately. The new name will strengthen and better represent the thousands of black footwear professionals and employees who work, thrive, and create in the footwear industry today. read more
Pensole Founder D’Wayne Edwards to Reopen a Historic Woman-Founded HBCU in Detroit
The Lewis College of Business, a Detroit-based historically Black college and university founded by the late Violet T. Lewis, closed in 2013. Edwards, who is now the school’s controlling stockholder, is reopening its doors and transforming the closed institution into the country’s first HBCU to focus on design. read more
Diversity & Inclusion Workshop with Inclusion and Diversity Consultant Amber Cabral
Our encounters and interactions with others are full of small behaviors that send messages to others, but are they the messages we mean to send? In this session we will talk about the difference between equity and equality, the role of privilege in how we see the world, and how we message equity to others in small behaviors called microaggressions. watch now
Your Diversity Is ‘Your Secret Weapon’ — and Other Powerful Advice From the First-Ever African American Footwear Forum
In what has been cast as an unprecedented moment for the footwear industry, dozens of African-American professionals from across the shoe sector convened at Howard University in Washington, D.C., for the inaugural African American Footwear Forum. read more
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