Peter Westbrook is a legend among American Sabre Fencers. He is one of the greatest of all time. He competed at five Olympics, from 1976-96, missing only the 1980 boycott year, and won an individual sabre bronze medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He also competed at the Pan American Games from 1975-95, winning 11 medals, including three golds, highlighted by the individual Sabre golds in 1983 and 1995. He competed at 11 World Championships between 1974-91, with a best individual finish of eighth in 1989. Westbrook won 13 US titles in Sabre – 1974-75, 1979-86, 1988-89, and 1995, and was a 7-time champion at the US Olympic Festival.

Westbrook’s influence on the sport, however, went far beyond a list of his medals and titles. He is the product of an African-American father and Japanese mother who met during the Korean war. They moved to New Jersey during his childhood and he was raised in Newark New Jersey He was able to earn a full scholarship for fencing to New York University, graduating with a degree in marketing in 1975. 

Near the end of his fencing career, Westbrook established The Peter Westbrook Foundation, an organization devoted to using fencing to help develop life skills in young people from underserved communities, especially among New York City’s lower- and moderate-income youths. It has goals to teach young people good sportsmanship in addition to developing their critical thinking skills, strengthening their self-confidence, encouraging the maintenance of an active and healthy lifestyle, and supporting academic achievement. The Peter Westbrook Foundation has had an array of Olympic Fencers compete at the highest stage and earn medals. Mr. Westbrook has four of his students who are black men competing at the Tokyo Olympics this year. 

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Lejorne is a transparent leader with proven skills of working directly with individuals with diverse academic, social economic and cultural backgrounds. He believes in the power of education social intelligence and transformational leadership that developed during his undergraduate degree at Long island University in roles such as Resident Assistant, Orientation Leader and Coordinator, and LIU Chapter president of the NAACP. He has a Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice. He spent 3 years as an Intern Career Coordinator at a high school then went on to accept a position at Columbia University as a Career Counselor. Now Lejorne is currently a senior recruiter at Global Emerging Talent.

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Jenga Mwendo, a Lower 9th Ward native and current resident/homeowner, is the founder of the Backyard Gardeners Network and has worked since 2007 to strengthen the Lower Ninth Ward community – organizing neighbors to revitalize and create gardens, planting trees, and developing support systems to encourage and support the culture of growing in the neighborhood by and for the Lower 9th Ward and the larger Black community of New Orleans. Mwendo has worked with the Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development to lead a Food Action Planning initiative and Tulane City Center as a Community Organizer. She is a graduate of the Southern University Agricultural Leadership Institute, a TogetherGreen Fellow, and an IATP Food and Community Fellow. She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her work including the 2014 EBONY Magazine “Hero Next Door.” Mwendo currently manages BGN's two community gardens in the Lower 9th Ward where she lives with her daughter. If you like what Jenga is doing and would like to donate to her cause visit her website link below. #BlackExcellence 

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Eji Benson is one of the best designers in the world of fashion.  He was born in Nigeria and came to the U.S to pursue his dreams of becoming a designer.. He was able to turn his dreams into a reality and attended fashion school in NY. He has not looked back since.  He has been doing work in the industry for over 17 years. Now He has his own company ENNUI New York as well as his own fashion label City Junk. His main facility for manufacturing is in china and has partnerships with factories in Portugal, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Italy, Indonesia, Jordan, India, and Turkey.  He does work with the best designers around the world and provides his own products for celebrities around the world including Oprah, the WNBA, and more. He also collaborates with the best in the industry like Nate Berkus to bring people top-of-the-line quality products and services. He believes that there must be opportunities for black people in the fashion world and is doing the work to provide access to black people in the industry through his podcast Fashion Labs where he collaborates with some of the best black minds in the industry. Eji also volunteers his time at different schools to teach students about the industry and even provides internships to help facilitate the growth and development of young people in the industry that look like him. 

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