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2020 Black Women's Celebration

Black Women's Celebration: Talethia O. Edwards

5/2/2020

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Talethia O. Edwards is Wife to Elder Harold W. Edwards, II and mother to their now eight children  since Romel the “community baby” is new to the crew. She spends her days as community and family Advocate. Strategizing ways to as a coalition builder and voice to empower and educate the 
community in order to change the patterns of poverty and low achievement. She currently serves 
as the Founder and  President of the Greater Bond Neighborhood Association where under her 
leadership they developed the Neighborhood First plan and were awarded $6.4M to add impact 
and value to the neighborhood through community revitalization projects. Talethia was named  Leon County 2016 Neighbor of the year. She was  Tallahassee’s 2019 25 Women You Need To  Know, recipient of the Reubin Askew Community Engagement  Award, Leadership Tallahassee 2019 Pacesetter Honoree  and recipient of ECHO Making A Difference Community Award  and current member of Leadership Tallahassee Class 37. 

She 
spends time locally and around the nation speaking about advocacy, leadership and  community development. Edwards recently gave a TedTalk on the topic of “Activation of a Grassroots leadership and Community revitalization”. However, she is most proud of her community and board service.  She is founder of the Leaping for Literacy a program that incentives youth for meeting their reading goals; which now hosts a city wide book drive that supports literacy at all Leon CountyTitle I schools.  She serves as Chair of Economic impact and resident empowerment ,Chair of the Leon County Community Development Block Grant Committee, Chair of the Title I Advisory Council, Vice Chair of the Pregnancy Help and information center, Co-Chair of the Early Childhood Education & Empowerment Taskforce, Tallahassee Lenders Consortium, Tallahassee/ Leon Housing Leadership Council, Kids Incorporated of the Big Bend, Forward Leon Early Education taskforce, ASPIRE Leon Guiding Team, Office of Early Learning Preschool Development Grant, Citizen member of the Guiding team that created City of Tallahassee’s New Mission, Vision and Values. Among all of that she is also a Leon county school mentor and serves on several Schools Advisory Councils. Talethia is also the Family Consultant for Federal grantee Early  Childhood comprehensive Systems State of Florida Team. 

​As If Edwards plate was not already full. She and her brother in law are in the process of creating and producing her podcast called “The Wondering Wonder Woman” where she muses about life as wife, mother, and advocate; this spring she plans to debut a blog by the same title. With all these things going on Edwards still manages to volunteer at her children’s school and take them to all of their extracurricular activities.  
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    2020 Black Women's Celebration

    Show love to those giving love to our community.

    Ladies

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    Arnya Davis
    Avantra Stroud
    Bianca King
    Bridget Milline
    Chiara Wesley
    Dykieria Stevens
    Felisha Williams
    Geraldine Seay
    Jarah Murraine
    Jocelyn Hayden
    Johazia De Jesus
    Kimberley Homer
    Lataisia Jones
    Melissa Chester
    Miesha Williams
    Nzinga Mack
    Quia Atkinson
    Raven Davis
    Shelby Davis
    Shelia Morris
    Shellie Noisette
    Sheneisha White
    Sylvia Myers
    Talethia Edwards
    Tee Thompson
    Wallisha Berry
    Wendy Barber
    Yashika Cherry
    Yecheilyah Ysrayl
    Yevett Nicholson


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