iask President Sophia A. Nelson (in gold suit-right center) was honored along with six other “Phenomenal women” by the Phenomenal Women’s Alliance of Virginia on Saturday, April 26, 2009.
Nelson was given the “Rising Star” award for her work on behalf of professional women of color as well as her political commentary and opinion columns in [...]

For the second year the sisters of iask, Inc., supported the Nicholas Blanco Invitational outing in Leesburg, Virginia at the RiverCreek Country Club. iask President & Board Chair Sandy Nelson participated in the outing as golfers and iask was an event sponsor.

About the foundation: In October 2007 Nicholas Blanco suffered an “Anoxic Brain Injury” as [...]

IASK, Inc. President to receive “Rising Star” Award at April 25th, event
Media Advisory: “The Phenomenal Women’s Alliance (PWA) wishes to salute Sophia A. Nelson, Esquire’s professional career and outstanding contributions for empowering professional women of color in the community. Respectfully, we would like to acknowledge and present Ms. Nelson with the Phenomenal Women’s Alliance Rising [...]

Last summer I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post titled, “Black. Female. Accomplished. Attacked,” in which I addressed the New Yorker Magazine’s controversial and offensive depiction of Michelle Obama as a gun-touting, afro-wearing, fist-bumping Angela Davis 60’s radical. The magazine cover generated great outrage among many Americans, but black women found it particularly offensive [...]

Below is the proposed calendar for 2009. For those of you who are participating in the “buddy groups” we will not be meeting in April. The officers/committee chairs need to devote April to focusing on building the new website, sister blog, membership intake, and committee building so that we can hit the ground running in [...]

We all remember the famous line where a 44 year old President John F. Kennedy introduces himself at a dinner in Paris, France by saying, “I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself–as the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris. . .”

One has to wonder if President Obama may have [...]