Internationally renowned Zora Brown, will be the featured speaker at BLAC, Inc.’s 17th Annual Recognition and Benefit Dinner with Silent Auction. The elegant affair which will be recognizing area women achievers is October 22 at 6:00 p.m. at the Petroleum Club.
Zora Brown is an outspoken advocate for minority and women’s health issues, presenting at both national and international forums. She was a featured speaker at both the 1992 and 2004 Republican National Conventions. She has served as consultant to the U. S. Conference of Mayors since 1996. Zora was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to the National Cancer Advisory Board and the National Cancer Institute. Her experience includes Administrative Assistant at the White House and an assistant in the national affairs office of Ford Motor Company. She serves on numerous boards nationally and internationally.
She is founder of Rise, Sister, Rise, a breast cancer
support group model for African American women. Zora founded Cancer Awareness Program Services (CAPS) and the Breast Cancer Resource Committee (BCRC). Under
her leadership, BCRC is responsible for the television broadcast production Life: Rising Above BreastCancer. She is co-author of a book with Dr. Harold Freeman. She co-produced a CD-ROM utilizing the breast cancer risk assessment tool set to original jazz. Ms. Brown has appeared on the networks and CNN and other media as an expert on women’s health.
Zora is the recipient of numerous awards including the
Magic Johnson Foundation, Gift of Life Award, the 1992 Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Community Service Award, 2001 Spelman College Community Service Award, and the 1996 Howard University Cancer Center Community ervice Award. Ms. Brown, along with Oprah Winfrey, was named one of the 1997 ten Women’s Health Heroes. She received a special citation in the Congressional Record in 1995.
Ms. Brown is Special Assistant for Health and Minority
Initiatives at INTEGRIS Health in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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