Black History Month Breakfast Connects Powerful Women of Color With the Girls Who Want to Be Like Them

For eight years, Women of Color Roar has hosted a Black History Month breakfast to connect young girls with some of the highest-ranking women of color in the government of San Diego County and California.

One of the morning’s most rousing speeches came from Ismahan Abdullahi, a nonprofit leader and high-ranking member of the Board of Directors for the San Diego County Water Authority. To applause, Abdullahi described how “America has always been these two stories of opposing outcomes.”