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On the Scene: EmpowHERment celebrates one-year anniversary (PHOTOS)

| Jo-Lynn Brown

The EmpowHERment Community Center celebrated its one-year anniversary. While founded just four years ago, EmpowHERment opened a physical center last year, during the pandemic.

In the effort to provide a safe, welcoming space, this community center embarked on a new journey, doing their part to help women rise through support services, support groups, empowerment workshops and the entreprenuHER Academy.

EmpowHERment, led by founder and executive director Ambee Stephens, focuses on empowering women by fostering the skills, and resources, needed to obtain self-sufficiency in finances, mental/emotional wellness and the cultivation of relationships.

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