Co-Founder/Executive Director

Dawn is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Power is Giving, Inc., a Charlotte North Carolina–based nonprofit she’s led for more than a decade. Since shaping the organization’s early community work in 2011 and guiding its formal nonprofit operations beginning in 2016, Dawn has provided leadership grounded in governance, mission clarity and direct responsibility to the communities served, while spearheading organizational strategy partnerships, grant stewardship, growth and program leadership.

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With more than a decade of public-sector management experience through her leadership roles with the City of Charlotte across departments including Solid Waste Services and Neighborhood Development, Dawn's public-sector foundation strengthens operational discipline, while reinforcing a community-first approach that treats wellness education as both a health strategy and equity strategy.

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Dawn holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Virginia State University, a certification in nonprofit leadership management from Duke University and. is a whole food, plant-based nutrition professional through eCornell and the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies.

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Author of two physician-endorsed books, Dawn's also a columnist for Pride Magazine Charlotte, a longstanding bi-monthly African American business and lifestyle publication, where she writes about wellness equity and culturally grounded lifestyle education.