Oprah Winfrey saluted the founder for making 2024 the year of the 'Zoom election,' raising millions for Kamala Harris.
event Sept. 19 featured the corps d’elite of entertainment, government, and business, as well as the woman being feted herself: Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris .
All this was more than Eaddy, a 45-year-old social impact consultant in politics and tech, could have dreamed of four years ago when she started her group,The Sunday evening Zoom call has evolved into a potent under-the-radar network of influential Black female leaders pulling strings in American public life and business. Most weeks, the call draws a couple hundred attendees.
But at a cost of $3,000, her parents couldn’t afford to send her, Eaddy tells Fortune. That was the first time she saw the power of a network: “Black women in my church and in my community sold chicken dinners and held bake sales to raise money to send me to that conference and to put me on an airplane that many of them have still never been on,” recalls Eaddy.
Eaddy called Minyon Moore, a former White House political director and more recently the chair of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, to ask what was being done to address the abuse and how she could assist. But politics isn’t the only arena where WWBW has flexed its power. “When there’s a need, we will galvanize,” Eaddy explains. And each participant brings her own assets.
WWBW has often deployed this three-pronged strategy: a social media campaign; open letters to policymakers and government officials; and tapping well-connected insiders to press the case in their respective fields. That afternoon, Eaddy’s group chat with Black women leaders began “popping off,” she recalls. “We were like, ‘Okay, this thing is going down. We can’t believe this is happening.’ ” On a typical Sunday, about 200 women attend the 8:30 p.m. Zoom meeting. But by 5 p.m., a few hundred were already in the waiting room.
An hour into the call, television personality and attorney Star Jones created a fundraising link to funnel donations directly to the Harris Victory Fund. WWBW has so far raised $2.6 million for the cause. Prince Harry and Prince William's uncle Charles Spencer makes rare comment about nephews amid ongoing 'rift'
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