Vendor Writing: Meet our New Friend

Meet our New Friend

BY MAURICE B., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR

As it's a blessing that all humans are alike, but all have differenting ideas that make us a whole. This factor is facts world wide. Whereas many have an idea to remain right where they are at until their blessings fall from a tree or the skies. Then there are the multitude that realize that if one doesn't work then they aren't able to eat that's only one level of an aspect cause there are those that believe if you don't grind then you don't shine. Well by having an opportunity to have met Charlane Oliver finally there was that time that we were able to sit back and talk and talk deep. As we both are those types of individuals that seem to be reaching for the skies.

We are both individuals from another state whereas she was raised in Arkansas and I in Texas. Now she is a marvelous achiever. For instance, even from a young age she has had enormous dreams for her future. And by her environmental move here to Nashville she has been only able to move forward whereas she first landed 20 years ago for her Vanderbilt Bachelor of Science in Human and Organizational Development and is still striving for accomplishments there shortly A Master of Public Administration from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Now as considered an achiever of prominent dreams here as a Nashvillian the larger aspects are to fulfill her dreams in which i back her. As I remember meeting and greeting her at the jazz fest and found out that her destiny is to become a Tennessee state senator. And after all her big girl dreams she has accomplished such as defeating a state of depression by stepping with our almighty God's will and becoming a loving and devoted mother and wife ad still moves forward into major accomplishments such as, according to her bio, "an award-winning servant leader, community organizer, nonprofit founder, and wife and working mother. Charlane is the co-founder and co-executive director of The Equity Alliance, a statewide nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization whose mission is to unapologetically build independent Black political and economic power and keep government in check. Under Charlane’s visionary leadership, she turned $250 of her own money into a $2.5 million-dollar powerhouse organization in just five years, growing currently with 12 employees and three chapters across the state. Her successes through TEA earned her the prestigious recognition of 2020 People of the Year by The Tennessean and numerous accolades."