Women’s Herstory Month Opening Ceremony – Women Like Me: Making Women’s Needs Visible

As we transition from Afrkan Heritage Month and into Women’s Herstory month, please join us for the Women’s Herstory Month Opening Ceremony: Women Like Me: Making Women’s Needs Visible. The theme focuses on identifying the needs of women and providing tools, experiences, and community to support women in meeting those needs. We will take an intersectional approach to highlight how race, ethnicity, religion, class, sexuality, etc., impact the needs of women across identities. Some of these needs include political and social issues, mental health, sexuality, relationships, empowerment and safety, financial security and literacy, health, family, community, career, education, and more. Through providing tools for growth and life-changing experiences, women’s cups will overflow with abundance. In turn, thriving as individuals and a collective community.

The event will feature Keynote Speaker Constance Panton, owner and founder of Bifties Gifts, a company specializing in curating custom gifts featuring all Black-owned brands for consumers and wholesale customers.

About Constance Panton

Born and raised in the Bronx, Constance, started Bifties Gifts to send a financial hug to the Black community. Her work with Black-owned brands seeks to highlight, and provide an easy and convenient way for individuals and businesses to support the Black community on a continual basis. Started as a gift exchange in 2016, Bifties Gifts allows you to be social by sending gifts – or what we like to say Bifts (Black + Gifts = Bifts) – to someone special, including yourself, all while conveniently supporting Black-owned brands.

During her 25 years working in telecommunications, Constance always gravitated to employee engagement activities – activities that bring teams together, while highlighting the company’s key metrics and goals. She utilized that same ideal when creating Bifties. Her work through Bifties provides a clear and easy way for people to vote with their wallets. Buying gifts through Bifties, not only honors the recipient of the gift, but also supports the brands that create the items, and the communities in which they live. Bifties then takes it one step further, by donating 5% of their marketplace and Build-A-Bift sales to charities doing work in and for the Black community, in order to keep money in the Black community longer and doing additional good!

Oddly enough, despite being the CEO/Founder of a gifting company, Constance is always late in sending gifts in her personal life. Constance lives in NJ with her 3 daughters and her extremely loved African Cichlid fish, Survivor.
In Collaboration with BMCC Afrikan History Month Committee and John Jay College of Criminal Justice Center for Student Involvement & Leadership

Join us via Zoom.

See the complete list of Women’s Herstory Month events.

Attend 2 or more events for Co-Curricular Transcript verification.

For more information, contact Tammie N. Velasquez at tavelasquez@bmcc.cuny.edu.

Photo Source: ShoutOut Atlanta

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