Essence GU Summit Atlanta 2022 | Reginae Carter, Jayda Cheaves, Dess Dior, Rubi Rose & more!

Foreigner you back in 2018, my sister and I founded Girls United. Okay, one thing we've learned about activism in today's culture is that there's no good way to use your voice for good, so to start I'd like to ask someone like American Airlines. and just like Coke Zero, I was one of those kids standing outside looking up at the sky wondering how those big metal tubes could possibly stay there. I mean, it was just a lot of science, a lot of stuff, a nice story that I really loved. that story because it reminds me of my daughter right now as she's going through her Aviation process, so I'm Captain Beth Powell of American Airlines and I got the bug and realized at a young age that she was 15 and attending high school in A Jamaica and I loved everything related to numbers, it was math, accounting, physics, you name it, it had numbers.

I remember the teacher getting so excited and fascinated every time he asked a question. He answered it, I approached him and said: I think. I want another way to do this and he got

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excited. I'm fine, so I like numbers, what does that mean? He said: Are you kidding me? You can become I can become Yes, he said, you can become a pilot and many other things. Blah blah blah, I heard the pilot first and I ran home to my parents and said, mom, dad, the teacher said I could become the mother who had been so supportive of our three daughters, we took the yellow pages, yeah, I'm older and we just went through it.

The Yellow Page found the only flight school in Jamaica called Wings. The next thing I knew I was on a plane at 15 years old taxiing down the runway at 80 miles an hour, the instructor told me to watch the controls with me so I put my hands on the controls we pulled. back I felt it we made a turn I felt it I felt every movement the plane made from start to finish I landed with a big smile on my face like when everyone goes to Disney World and then he looked and said they pay us to do it this is it, I'm going to be an airline pilot and here I am, but I have a microphone, so please listen, she is going to project, it will be a fabulous panel and you will enjoy the Foreign Summit and black girls will always be the model because it is natural that they do not let's do.

I don't have to do too much, it just comes, flows abroad.