Woman 2 Woman

Carla Armstrong is the founder and president of two organizations, Women Making a Difference, a non-profit organization committed to changing the lives of women and children, and Fitness by Design specializing in fitness programs for women. Carla is married with two children and one grandchild and resides in Baltimore. She can be reached at womenmakeadifference@yahoo.com.

 

Our Roles as Leaders

Many articles are being written about the importance of the leadership roles women have taken on to change the course of this city, state and country. African American women have become leaders in government, business, church and etc. As great as these accomplishments are we must not fail to remember the history of the African American women who risked their lives for our freedom.

African American women have always been influential in how a movement was birth into a society. Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Katy Ferguson and many others can be credited with being leaders who risked their lives for the freedoms we enjoy today. These women were not concerned with the fame or fortune that came with being a leader. Rather, they saw this as an opportunity to birth life to an enslaved people and they moved with compassion to bring it to pass.

They saw their roles as necessary opportunities to change a nation of people. They knew there was a higher calling on their lives and they were determined to answer the call regardless of the risk. The legacy they left behind is one that we are now being called upon to complete. It is our turn to free a nation, who has become enslaved to a system which seeks to destroy and imprison the mind.

African American women are being called upon again to birth another movement. Our society has placed us in key roles of leadership and we accept the challenge. We will make sure every child awakens to the opportunity to live their dream. We will lay aside selfish motives and embrace new ways to nurture, love and encourage. We will risk our lives for freedom in the roles we have today to ensure the life of children who stand in harms way.