The Black Girl Social Club
Lakeesha Alford serves as the Los Angeles President for The Black Girl Social Club since May 2023. Additionally, Lakeesha is a member of the Board of Directors for both Kappa League Inglewood, South Bay, Long Beach since March 2023 and A Step to Freedom since January 2023. Lakeesha has been a board member of the Black Peace Officers Association of Los Angeles County since January 2008 and holds the position of Sergeant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which has been held since November 2004. Lakeesha Alford obtained a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice/Police Science from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff from 1997 to 2001 and a Master's degree in Public Administration from California State University, Northridge from 2003 to 2005.
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The Black Girl Social Club
The Black Girl Social Club started with a Girls’ night. A group of 12 women came together to talk, eat, drink, and close out the year with affirmations right before New Year’s Eve 2019. After a night of healing, guided meditation, laughing, crying, and lots of new connections made, Carmen realized this was something women needed-more specifically Black women. They needed a space to feel seen, be heard, and not feel judged. They needed healing and personal development, through solid relationships and social activities. She wanted to recreate the feeling she felt that day, over and over again. That’s when The Black Girl Social Club was born. Carmen founded the Atlanta Chapter in 2019. She presided over this Chapter for about 6 months before her successors Kamesha Marshall and Courtni Hawkins stepped in. This Chapter is now known as The Founding Chapter. Shortly after, the Richmond, VA, District, Los Angeles, and New York Chapters were born. Our Mission… Is to create a safe space for Black women, and change the narrative about how Black women interact with one another. We are a modern day social club determined to bring back the art of face to face communication, away from our phones, and off of the internet. We’re tackling mental, physical, and emotional health as a community, while building amazing relationships. We are looking to fill a void for Black women in cities worldwide. Our mission is really quite simple-we want to impact the lives of Black women through social interaction, so that they might be happy, healthy and whole, and able to put that energy back into their communities.