Because Bond is the type of woman she is, she thought, why stop there? In 2010 she and BET partnered to produce the televised annual awards show BLACK GIRLS ROCK! to showcase and celebrate the achievements and contributions of extraordinary women of color.

BLACK GIRLS ROCK! received an NAACP Image Award for outstanding Variety Series or Special and Hillary Clinton personally and publically thanked Bond for her tireless promotion of black women.

Then Bond created BLACK GIRLS LEAD (BGL) and got even busier. BGL is an international leadership conference designed to empower young women of color. BGL’s mission is to offer girls the tools, skills, opportunities and resources to help them become leaders, influencers, public servants and innovators.

Bond’s professional work and her more personal efforts to create a generation of confident, fearless, compassionate, constructive and accomplished women and girls of color are too many to name so I’ll let her accolades speak for themselves.

Bond has made EBONY magazine’s Power 100 list for five consecutive years from 2008-2012. In addition Bond was recognized as one of Ebony’s “Most Influential Blacks In America.” ESSENCE magazine’s “40 Fierce and Fabulous Women Who are Changing the World” placed Bond firmly in the company of some of the world’s most remarkable high profile women such as First Lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, President of the Republic of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Beyonce and Queen Latifah. In 2016 Bond received New York’s Women Who Care award.

Bond, BLACKGIRLSROCK! and the young women it champions are determined to change the way the world sees and values the achievements and contributions of young women of color.

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