Join us as we celebrate National Walker’s Legacy Day during National Small Business Week and join Walker’s Legacy for their annual spring networking reception. Come prepared to network, collaborate and connect with professional and business women from throughout the Greater Pittsburgh area.
Date: May 7
Place: Blue Line Grille
1014 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Cost: Free
Website: www.walkerslegacy.com
Walker’s Legacy was founded in 2009 as a quarterly women in business lecture series designed to inspire women of all ages to walk into their professional passion and purpose. It was developed after founder Natalie Madeira Cofield found herself in need of female mentors and role models during the formation of her first entrepreneurial venture. As she searched, she noticed that other women around her were also looking for positive, successful and accessible examples of women in business. Walker’s Legacy was born from the communal goal of developing an open forum for women to engage and inspire.
The original series was named in honor of Madam C. J. Walker the first self-made female millionaire in US history and a historical female entrepreneur, a biography that Cofield read often when she needed inspiration.
Since our founding roughly five years ago, we have evolved to establish Walker’s Legacy as a professional collective that works to promote the career advancement, skill sets and networks of women in business and women entrepreneurs.
Through our interactive programming, WL has hosted former female mayors, award winning journalists and authors, Forbes-ranked businesswomen and entrepreneurs from across the country for our empowering and educational programming.
Women who engage with Walker’s Legacy, affectionately known as Walkers, are women who aspire to start their own businesses or are looking to enhance their knowledge of achieving success in corporate America and their network of like-minded progressive women.
- THEIR MISSION: To enhance leadership skills, create networking and learning opportunities and bring exposure to emerging trends in business for aspiring and professional women of color.
- THEIR VISION: To inspire, equip and connect a global network of emerging and established businesswomen.
Networking is always beneficial to your business. If you need information or a connection because you want to tap into a new market, the fastest and most effective way to do that is by networking. “Who you know” always makes a difference and Walker’s Legacy is all about creating an eco-system of women who support each other and provide the connections you need in business and civic leadership. But you have to be there to meet the people in that eco-system. We hope you can join on Tomorrow, I’m looking forward to adding you to my network.
-Jamila, Walker’s Legacy State Chair Pennsylvania