"What Is A Service, If You're Not Sowing Into Someone Else"
Dr. Diane Thomas is a management professional with over 20 years of leadership experience, strong work ethic and personal drive. She is a self-motivated, dependable, and hard-working individual who enjoys being in service to others.
Dr. Thomas attended Colorado Technical University in Colorado Springs. She has worked for MCC Penn Valley, CTU, Maple Woods, and City Vision Colleges. Dr. Thomas is now self-employed.
Pia is an aspiring Social Entrepreneur with a Social Service background. She seeks to create businesses that address the concerns of today. Her current project is ‘Back To Beauty’. A self-esteem building workshop for girls of color designed to teach them how “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made” they truly are. She enjoys educating, motivating and activating people. Her passion for helping others discover how God has uniquely designed and gifted them and how to use those strengths in their day to day life.
Pia is a proud mother of three sons, a host of spiritual children and thirteen grandchildren. She firmly believes and teaches the blessing in giving of yourself to help others and demonstrates that in her own life through participation in various volunteer activities.
Pia attended Lillis High School in Kansas City, Missouri and received her higher education at Longview Community College in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. She currently works as as Employment Specialist with the AARP Foundation.
Toliece Bowens received her BS degree in Fashion Business from the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri.
Toliece Bowens
Pia King
Dr. Diane Thomas
Kehinde Usman
Ms. Kehinde Usman is an Educator, Director of Shiloh Learning Center in Kansas City Missouri. Her Learning Center environment is a true learning community. Students know exactly what is expected of them, and why, as well as demonstrate a zest for learning.
Usman has travelled extensively, living in many countries as an Ambassador’s wife. She was part of a network association that brought together wives of Ambassadors where she served as the President. As the President of Circle Diplomatic, Usman rehabilitated the lives of many young girls. And she always helped in shaping and creating the academic folios as they were seen and written. She has a keen imagination with a clear streak of history in her writing, which she uses to support her candid opinions and imaginations. An example of this is her participation in a women’s Symposium in New York City which showcased women authors.
Ms. Usman is a remarkable professional and a decent human being who hopes to bring empowerment and change into the lives of women in the urban core.
BWEL Board of Governors
Najah is a highly competent, motivated and enthusiastic professional who is well organized with the ability to generate innovative ideas and solutions to problems. She currently works for the Social Security Administration.
“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” This speaks to nature, spirit and the role of the woman. Our creator has blessed us with this power. I am committed to aiding women to come to this realization and to understand how important it is for us not to abuse our God given talents nor hold back or be held back. With strong, educated, self-motived, nurturing and dedicated women focused on serving humanity, we can produce better children, stronger families, better neighborhoods, united communities—a better world.
I am human first, then a woman, a sister, a wife, a mother, and now a grandmother. I have taught elementary school, tutored college students, worked for over 15 years as an administrative assistant, served as a mediator, event planner and counselor, provided customer service in corporate, government, and technical support environments, prepared tax returns, and volunteered for many community service activities. However my greatest passion is my family and serving them with all my heart. My greatest pleasure is watching my grandchildren grow into our future leaders.
Najah Khalil
