The Champagne & Melanin™️ Summer Brunch

1315 Sterrett Street,Houston TX 77002

06 June, 2021

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Welcome To The Champagne & Melanin Summer Brunch! Get ready for our favorite annual event of the year! The Champagne & Melanin™️ Summer Brunch will feature: 5 Fabulous Founders Panel Conversation with amazing local entrepreneurs!A Fireside Chat with "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star and founder of The Ambition Fund, Tanya Sam!A delicious, individually curated plated brunchOpen Air Cocktails & Libations LoungeThe Beauty Room!DJ Shante on the 1s & 2sPhoto's, Videos and more!A Gorgeous Swag Bag!Mark your calendars, buy your lashes, find your heels, customize your masks and get your "fit's" ready to SERVE at a beautiful and PRIVATE location for one of my fave events of the Champagne & Melanin brand! It's Brunchin' Time!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Attire: Summertime Slayin' About Fireside Chat Speaker: Tanya Sam Tanya Sam is a brilliant and beautiful tech savvy businesswoman. Tanya is the founder of The Ambition Fund. The Ambition Fund is an investment company focused on funding businesses founded by women and minority entrepreneurs. The Ambition Fund aims to democratize access to investment capital, business funding, and mentorship. Tanya is the Director of Partnerships at TechSquare Labs, a technology startup hub and venture capital fund. Since 2016, TechSquare Labs has invested in over 30 companies and those companies have raised over $300 million dollars in venture capital and generated over $100 million dollars in revenue. Tanya is passionate about creating pathways to bring more women and minorities into business and technology. Tanya is the host of the docu-reality series Making of a Mogul, which profiles a range of highly successful and accomplished business moguls of color. The Making of a Mogul series tells the genuine stories of resilience of many highly acclaimed and successful business moguls and moguls- in-the-making, on their way to future success. It puts a special emphasis on the trials, challenges, accomplishments, failures and ultimately their innate desire to succeed. She cofounded BuiltxWomen, a business accelerator for female entrepreneurs. She currently leads Ascend 2020, a technology startup and small business pre-accelerator for minority and female founders. Additionally, Tanya serves on the Board of Directors for Kate’s Club, a non-profit organization that empowers children that have experienced the death of a parent or sibling. This organization and all the children they help hold a special place in her heart as she also experienced loss at an early age, losing her mother at the age of 12. Tanya appears on the show The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Tanya lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her fiancé Dr. Paul Judge, a technology entrepreneur and investor. She was born in Toronto, Canada and her parents are from Ghana and England. Tanya earned a Bachelor of Science in Genetics and Cell Biology from McGill University and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The University of Toronto. She has practiced nursing for over a decade in some of the top oncology hospitals in Toronto, New York and Atlanta including Princess Margaret Hospital, Northside Hospital, and New York Presbyterian. She is a fashionista, an avid runner, workout queen, spin-cyclist, traveler, foodie and bibliophile.