The Walt Weekly Podcast

Interview With Businesswoman, Educator, and Entrepreneur: Dena S. Ramsey - Rebroadcast

The TWW sits down with North Carolina born, Dena S. Ramsey. CEO and Entrepreneur who operates educational and mental health facilities in North Carolina and Virginia. How did she do it? What obstacles did she had to overcome?

About Mrs. Ramsey

Dena S. Ramsey is a native of Martin County, NC and currently resides in Rocky Mount, NC. Dena S. Ramsey is a graduate of Norfolk State University and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mass Communications.

She is the Founder and CEO of Hodgestown Lifetime Learning Center. Hodgestown Lifetime Learning Center is a five-star childcare facility licensed by the North Carolina Department of Child Development Services and is located in Roanoke Rapids, NC, Halifax County. The facility was established in May 2002 and serves children in Halifax, Northampton and Warren Counties ages zero to 12 years old. Hodgestown Lifetime Learning Center is the only private owned childcare facility in Halifax County who operates a licensed Head Start Program, and one of only two private owned childcare facilities licensed as NC Pre-K Sites in the county. Hodgestown Lifetime Learning Center employs 14 people who hold a minimum of an Associates Degree in Early Childhood Education or a related field.

Dena S. Ramsey is also the Founder and CEO of Hope First, LLC. Hope First, LLC is a mental health and substance abuse agency licensed by the Virginia Division of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. Hope First, LLC is licensed in Emporia, Lawrenceville and Norfolk, Virginia. Hope First, LLC serves citizens throughout the state of Virginia. Currently, Hope First, LLC employs 37 people who hold at a minimum a Bachelors Degree in a Human Service Field.

Dena S. Ramsey currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Halifax Warren Smart Start as well as the Board for Halifax-Warren NC Pre-K. She currently serves as President of the Community Women in Action Organization who serves Halifax, Warren, Northampton, Nash, Pitt, Martin and Bertie Counties.

Outside of work, Dena S. Ramsey enjoys spending time with her family and serving her community. She is an active member of Roanoke Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Jackson, NC, Northampton County.

 

The Walt Weekly Celebrates Black History Month 2022: Rebroadcast

What did we learn? Did we as a people rise to the occasion?  Did we become relentless in our pursuits of peace, justice, and prosperity. What about equality? We believe that Black History Month should be a time that we use as a checkpoint on where we are and what our next steps should be. 

The Millennials: Interview With Author, Lawyer, Poet, Hawa Allan

The Walt Weekly Podcast will begin what we will call  The Millennials series. Our guest today, Hawa Allan , author of Insurrection, published by W.W. Norton, meets that requirement. Our Millennials  will not be denied, and this drive will be passed on to future generations.

About Ms. Allan

Hawa Allan is a lawyer and writer of cultural criticism, fiction, and poetry. She is an essay editor at The Offing, and her work has appeared, among other places, in The Baffler, the Chicago Tribune, Lapham's Quarterly and Tricycle magazine, where she is a contributing editor. Her book Insurrection, an interweaving of personal narrative and legal history, was published in January 2022 by W.W. Norton. 

Links:

Website: 

http://www.hawaallan.com/

Link to my book at the publisher (including links to online booksellers): 

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324003038

 

Return to Africa- Rebroadcast

Michelle and Walter discuss the "Year of the Return " movement. What is it? Should we go?

Conversation with Althea Stevens

We are extremely honored to have newly elected City Council Member, Althea Stevens, representing District 16 of the Bronx. What issues top her priority list?

AG Letitia James VS the Trumps

We will be talking about the orange man (again). Dawg! I never dreamed he would still be making trouble. But what he is doing is well beyond what I could have imagined.

First:  The pending Civil Investigation by New York AG Letitia James and

Second: We also want to touch upon the Jan 6^th anniversary of the terrorist assault on the US Capital from a Black perspective

 

The Walt Weekly Christmas Show: Rebroadcast

Hello all and thank you for joining FridayLive! Believe it or not this is our second end of year show and in honor of that we are having our Annual Christmas Show. We humbly thank all our listeners for supporting us and our Panel. We also extend our deepest appreciation to our esteemed guest for taking time out of their busy schedule, to appear on the TWW. Looking back at the 2021, I am proud that we maintained our value proposition of providing information impacting our community.

We would like to congratulate our panel member, Gene Edwards, for being awarded The Black Veterans Award.

May your holidays be happy, safe, memorable, and full of love.

We have done 123 episodes. We will be rebroadcasting some of these over the next few weeks.  See you live on January 7^th!

Interview with Jose Antonio Coello, Sr on NYC Construction- Rebroadcast

This week we take a look at the 800 Billion dollar construction industry. How do you bid for a contract? Our guest, Mr. Jose Antonio Coello, will address that question and more.

 

About Mr. Coello, Sr.

As a committed business entrepreneur and

proven community advocate and organizer, Jose

Sr. strongly advocates for minority contractors,

minority employment, and MWBE contractual

opportunities. As the President of the New York

State Association of Minoritv Contractors. Jose

Sr. had the mission of advancing and promoting

the mutual interests of minority and women

contracting firms based in New York. The

organization's corporate partners include the

School Construction Authority (SCA), MTA, FCRC,

DASNY, Con Edison, Battery Park, and the New York Port

Authority, amongst several others.

NYSAMC is particularly proud of being a signatory to the

precedent- setting Community Benefits Agreement (CBA)

of the Barclay Center Arena and Atlantic Yards Project,

and will continue to monitor and advocate for small

businesses.

Small Business and Entrepreneurship With Ray J. McGuire Former Vice Chairman Of Citigroup and Former NYC Mayoral Candidate

The TWW welcomes trailblazer Raymond J. McGuire. He is a former NYC Mayoral Candidate and a former Vice Chairman of Citigroup. He was also Global Head of Investment Banking during his tenure at Citigroup with a specific focus on Mergers and Acquisitions. Ray held this position for 13 years. This was the longest any person, Black or White, held this role.

Ray is a graduate of Harvard College and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ray will bring his expertise and experience to small business, startups, and entrepreneurship. What does the current environment look like with COVID, supply chain disruptions, inflation, and the country’s political divide?

Saving Our Kids: :Stop and Frisk, Raise the Age? Rebroadcast

Attorney Walter Fields and his partner, Ronald Fisher,  will be discussing the” Raise the Age” changes that Bronx DA Clark wants to implement as part of the fight against gun violence. We will also discuss the return of” Stop and Frisk” and the Rittenhouse not guilty verdict. Today’s guest will provide us with a legal analysis of this verdict.