How Caitlyn Kumi Built Miss EmpowHer Into The Go-To Community For Ambitious Black Women

Essence Magazine:

By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated April 6, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Be honest. How many networking events have you left feeling like you wasted a good outfit? 

Caitlyn Kumi did. So she did something about it.

The result is Miss EmpowHer, the women’s media platform and events community she founded in June 2020, in the middle of a pandemic, while she was still in college at UNC Chapel Hill. It started

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