Precious J. Stroud

Precious J. Stroud is an American Express Leadership Academy, Campaign for Black Male Achievement fellow alumna and former Black Public Media Artist-in-Residence. Precious, and her team at PJS Consultants (www.pjsconsultants.net), helps organizations increase their market position by telling the right stories at the right time. Leading creative teams toward storytelling with a positive narrative lens, Precious eliminates harmful stereotypes from social enterprise marketing. In 2014, Precious founded the BlackFemaleProject to counter the effects of systemic race and gender bias in the workplace. A research-based effort, BlackFemaleProject collects lessons learned and words of wisdom from African American women and women of African descent. The multi-layered media project reveals how Black women have survived and thrived in a post-affirmative action era, reducing the impact of structural racism and empowering a generation (www.BlackFemaleProject.org).