Urban Call Briefs

by Lafayette Jones

Cheryl Broussard Author and Entreprenuer

Dr. Griggs Health and Wellness Advocate

Anika Robbins

Beauty Professional, Activist and Public Servant

Dr. Seth O. Lartey

The Right Reverend AME Zion Bishop of AlabamaFlorida Episcopal District

Cheryl Broussard, Author and Entrepreneur

She is the principle of Jet Set Girl International, LLC.

Cheryl is a consummate entrepreneur with over two decades of experience. She is the former owner of Jet Set Girl

Cheryl Broussard Hair, a distributor of luxury synthetic

Author and Entreprenuer hair and hair products for professional women. Her belief is that women must approach life from a holistic standpoint. And beauty plays a major role in wealth-building and inner self-confidence.

Cheryl has participated in the Multi-cultural beauty world and was an honoree role model in Beyond Beauty. She has an established relationship with the Bronner Bros. company and has been featured in their Upscale magazine.

She is also an author and has written over 14 bestselling books and selling over 250,000 copies worldwide, speaking all over the world, becoming a media personality on CNN and The Wall Street Journal and building an online empire, now my life’s work and passion is to empower entrepreneurs to have a lucrative business that impacts not only their lives but many others worldwide. Her mission is to transform the lives of entrepreneurs worldwide to have true financial and time freedom.

Cheryl started her business career as a stockbroker with a major Wall Street firm and later left to start her own money management company where her firm managed $75 million in investment assets. She has appeared as a business and financial expert on CNN, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, CBS Marketwatch and other major TV stations and featured in many National publications.

She has conducted and spoken at International conferences, workshops and seminars on business, investments, and entrepreneurship.

Cheryl is also the former host of the “The Cheryl Broussard Show’ radio show on KBLX, San Francisco, CA.

Dr. Griggs

Dr. Griggs Health and Wellness Advocate

Dr. Eric Griggs is a New Orleansbased community medicine doctor and health educator who has dedicated his professional life to raising health and wellness awareness in the New Orleans Health and Wellness Advocate

community.

Known as Doc Griggs, he graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1992 and Tulane University School of Medicine in 1996 and has always held a special place in his heart for the City of New Orleans and has been an active health advocate since graduation. He has made it his life work to educate the community on health and wellbeing and is an active participant in his programs.

Upon completion of medical school in 1996, Dr. Griggs received the Robert C. Baird Award for overachievement in pursuit of a Medical Degree. In 2013, Dr. Griggs received the “Champion for Change” Award from The

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Links, Incorporated of New Orleans. Most recently, he was awarded the Jack leadership and community service award by the New Orleans chapter of Jack and Jill Incorporated.

Doc Griggs’ mantra is “Get checked. Get fit. Get moving!®” His approach transcends race and gender barriers. His ability to speak proficient Spanish allows him to utilize a comprehensive creative approach to engage men, women, and children of both English and Spanish speaking heritage. His efforts as a health educator and health and awareness advocate have been recognized by District 7 State Senator David R. Heitmeier in a 2014 resolution naming Dr. Eric Griggs, a Health and Wellness Ambassador of the State of Louisiana. In May 2014, the New Orleans City Council as the Health and Wellness Ambassador for the City of New Orleans and was recently named as the Chairman of the Healthcare Sector for FitNOLA, the City of New Orleans’ fitness initiative. He was recently was appointed as an Assistant Professor at LSU School of Medicine and works for Access Health Louisiana as the Director of Community Medicine. Additionally, he serves as the Medical Advisor for Xavier University School of Pharmacy Health and Wellness Center.

Doc Griggs is an active participant in several organizations that promote positive change in the community. He is the Health and Wellness Chair for 100 Black Men of Metro New Orleans and also serves on the 100 Black Men National Health and Wellness Board. In March of 2014, Dr. Dog Griggs was also named Spokesperson for the American Cancer Society - Greater New Orleans and is also a member of their Executive Leadership Council. As former chairman for the American Heart Association’s Multicultural Leadership Committee, he is also a member of their Greater Southeast Affiliate Multicultural Initiatives Committee.

While Health and Wellness are near and dear to his heart, Doc Griggs works closely with the youth as well. He proudly serves as the Director of Health Sciences for STEM NOLA and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Playworks-Louisiana and on the Broadmoor Charter School Board. Dr. Griggs also co-founded and directs the Broadmoor Basketball Association, a basketball program for at-risk youth. Earlier this year, Doc Griggs was appointed by Governor John Bel Edwards to the Louisiana Children’s Cabinet Advisory Board and as a spokesperson for the Governor’s Louisiana Youth For Excellence program.

He appears weekly on Fox 8 WVUE’s Morning Edition as a Health Educator every Thursday morning at 7:40 AM and every Friday at 9:45 AM. He also appears weekly on WHIV 102.3 FM on the “Get Checked. Get Fit. Get Moving!® with Doc Griggs” show on Thursdays at 10 AM. He hosts another weekly radio broadcast every Sunday, “The Doc Griggs Show with Access Health Louisiana” on iHeart radio’s WYLD 940 AM from 8:30 PM to 9:00 AM. Additionally, monthly appearances on the “Good Morning Show” with Oliver Thomas on WBOK 1230 AM. and bi-monthly medical contributions to Breakthru Magazine, a local community magazine, keep Doc Griggs on the move!

Anika Robbins

Beauty Professional, Activist and Public Servant

Anika Robbins is a global renaissance woman who has built her life aroundfamily, business and service to community. She is the President

Anika Robbins and CEO of the ANIKA Foundation-a

Beauty Professional, Activist non-profit organization dedicated and Public Servant to empowering community through health, civic engagement and economic empowerment. She is also the Founder of Black Votes Matter MN, a nonpartisan voter engagement initiative designed to in- crease voter turnout, develop leaders and increase representation in government.

As Chair of the Minneapolis Commission on Civil Rights, she is committed to promoting equitable access to economic opportunities while protecting the civil rights of community members. Robbins, also chairs the Cultural Engagement Complete Count Committee with the State of Minnesota to ensure equitable representation in under- counted communities. As a Minnesota Voice and Roy Wilkins Fellow, respectively, she has received numerous awards and accolades for her service and philanthropy, including “Outstanding Black Business of the Year” - Minnesota Black Chamber of Commerce, 2011, the Fannie Lou Hamer award in 2018, and an award for Outstanding Community Service, issued by Positive Image Minneapolis in 2019.

Robbins and husband, Dr. Juneau Robbins, own and operate the Robbins Urban Wellness Retreat, the Northside’s premier health & wellness center. Like her first bricks & mortar-Java Noire-the Twin Cities’ first African American owned cafe that she established at the tender age of 25 - The Robbins Urban Wellness Retreat is a warm, safe haven for health, wellness and community building.

The Right Reverend Dr. Seth O. Lartey,

AME Zion Bishop of Alabama-Florida Episcopal District

Bishop Seth O. Lartey was born in Monrovia, Liberia (West Africa). He

Dr. Seth O. Lartey earned several degrees of higher learning

of the Greene County Education and Enrichment Program, Snow Hill, North Carolina, The Educational Acceleration and Enrichment Program, The Right Reverend from the following institutions, Liberia

AME Zion Bishop of AlabamaTheological Seminary of Monrovia, Faith Partnerships, Trinity College and the A.M.E. Zion University of West Africa, Board of Trustees for Livingstone College, Salisbury, NC, President

Florida Episcopal District

Liberia (Bachelor of Theology), Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina [Bachelor of Education], Duke University School of Divinity, Durham, North Carolina [Master in Religious Education], and Drew University, Madison, New Jersey [Doctor of Ministry].

He is married to Jacqueline Inez Williams-Lartey, and they are the very proud parents of three beautiful children, Solomon Benjamin Dorme, Alicia Elzera Amelia and Victoria Danielle Kamaria Lartey.

Bishop Lartey pastored several churches in various conferences under the leadership of the late Bishops Ruben L. Speaks, Cecil Bishop and retired Bishop George W.C. Walker. His pastorates included St. Mathias A.M.E. Zion Church of the Liberia Annual Conference, Liberia, West Africa, A.M.E. Zion Church of the Cape Fear Annual Conference (Eastern N.C. Episcopal District) and Goler Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church (Piedmont Episcopal District). He serves as Chairperson of Zion ’s Benefit Services and First Vice-President of Church Growth and Development in the A.M.E. Zion Church. He has also served in the following capacities in the A.M.E. Zion Church as Episcopal Director of Leadership Education in the 6th Episcopal District which is known now as the Eastern North Carolina Episcopal District and the Piedmont Episcopal District. He is the founder and former president Inc., Elizabethtown, North Carolina, The Goler Institute for Development and Education, Inc., and the Goler Community Development Corporation of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Dr. Lartey is a recipient of many honors and awards (i.e. Who’s Who, Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society, Presidential Scholar, NAACP Presidential Award, Winston-Salem Chronicle Man of the Year, Order of the Long Leaf Pine of North Carolina, Honorary Doctorate from Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina).

He has served or is serving on boards both national and international: National Council of Churches, Churches United in Global Mission, United Way, Winston-Salem State University Foundation Board of Directors, Trinity A.M.E. Zion Church, Invitation A.M.E. Zion Church and Mt. Zion

of AFED Community Economic Development Corporation, Founder/ CEO of Next Generation Movement and 400 Years Celebration Inc., and many other boards.

Bishop Lartey was elected the 100th Bishop in line of succession in July 2012 in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. His first assignment was the Western West African Episcopal District and he has historically become the first African native bishop to serve an Episcopal area in the United States of America in the assignment of the AlabamaFlorida Episcopal District.

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