IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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A RESOLUTION recognizing Gwendolyn Grant, President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, on her receipt of the 2022 Women of Power Award from the National Urban League.
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RESOLUTION NO. 21030, August 22, 2022
INTRODUCED BY Ronald E. Finley and Jalen Anderson, County Legislators
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WHEREAS, Gwendolyn Grant, the first woman named President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, received the 2022 Women of Power Award presented by the National Urban League during a luncheon at the National Urban League Conference held July 20 - 23, 2022, in Washington, DC; and,
WHEREAS, Ms. Grant, on August 6, 2022, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greater St. Louis Urban League; and,
WHEREAS, other recipients of the Women of Power Award include Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman, MSNBC contributor Brittany Packnett Cunningham, CNN correspondent Abby Phillip, Associate Attorney General Kristen Clarke, and actress Kim Fields; and,
WHEREAS, the National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment, equality, and social justice with the mission to help African Americans and others in underserved communities achieve their highest true social parity, economic self-reliance, power, and civil rights; and,
WHEREAS, Ms. Grant is devoted to the causes of social justice and civil rights in the Kansas City area, using her limitless advocacy to bring issues impacting African Americans and women to the forefront in our community; and,
WHEREAS, Ms. Grant is the founder and convener of the COVID-19 Collective Impact Collaborative and the Police Accountability Task Force, serves as Chair of the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education and Workforce Development, President of the Kansas City Public Schools Building Corporation Board, and is a member of the Citizens to Abolish Poverty Education...
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