Introducing An Author

 

A story has an introduction by the author before delving into the chapters they’ve given, so I shall do the same!

My name is Victoria Rollins, your current NCBW Intern and I will guide you along the next few chapters of NCBW through my position. I am a sophomore at my HBCU, a published author, poet, and literary activist. I believe in nothing else, if not the intense power of words. As a Communication major, I specialize in analyzing how we communicate, if it’s constructive, and where any nuance might live. I had a brief spell as an author for the KC Defender and a few years where I danced around as a commissioned poet before I began my work in non-for-profit spaces. I’ve done things like learn about disinformation and article analysis to event planning and even babysitting. And I’m not done yet! Credentials and life experience aside, I want to continue my practices of literary activism by giving you informative and thought-provoking pieces surrounding our culture, current events, and how we as a people choose to interact with it. The title is such because I cannot tell you the future of NCBWKC or who other authors for this page may be. For now, I am one of many Black women set in time to tell a story. 

As many of you know, NCBW is about cultivating a network of educated Black women in leadership roles, both locally and nationally. Be it entrepreneurship, civic engagement, or the social enterprises we strive to build, the NCBW strives to provide sisterhood and community among Black women. As pillars of the Black community, it is up to us to make sure things like wealth, health, education and community up-lift are generational practices and not side hustles.

Since I will be journeying across topics related to our community, I invite you to have the conversations with your family. Perhaps across dinner, or over a drink, you talk about yourselves. The selves reflected across the Black and brown diaspora of America, and how they live. Is it enough? Are you satisfied with the existence we maintain in modern America? Would you change it if you thought you had the power? The power to change a community lies within the hands that hold it up, so as we discuss life and I show you power to change has always been in your hands, we will use the momentum to elevate our community. 

 

Passionate about improving the educational, social, political and economic status of African-American women and their families.

National Congress of Black Women

Kansas City Chapter