FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 14, 2025
SILVER SPRING, MD – The National Black Cultural Information Trust, Inc. hosted its 6th Blogger Week Content Creator Unconference on Saturday, October 4, 2025, in Silver Spring, MD. Blogger Week features a week of training, networking events, and other activities focused on elevating the work of bloggers, influencers, and journalists of color. Over the last 10 years, the Blogger Week Unconference has provided training to 1000+ multicultural content creators, bloggers, influencers, and journalists.
This year’s Blogger Week Unconference featured a fireside chat interview with special guest, Phil Lewis, Deputy Editor at HuffPost and President of the Washington Association of Black Journalists, and the event also featured other notable speakers, sessions and workshops by a dynamic selection of digital media specialists. Monique Rose Sneed, Entrepreneur and Restaurant Mogul, headlined a fireside chat titled “Marketing, Branding, and Entrepreneurship.”
Monique is a successful 7-figure entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the restaurant, real estate, wellness & beauty, and hospitality management industries. She is the owner of The Bodega On Main: Home of The Chopped Cheese in ATL!, LA’CAJ Seafood: A Cajun Latin Fusion Kitchen and Bar, and former owner of Milk & Honey Southern Inspired Kitchen. In addition to this diverse portfolio, her favorite ventures stem from her love of seeing others rise through adversity, including Rags to Roses, her non-profit organization, designed to positively impact young women in and transitioning from the foster care system.
Blogger Week was founded in 2014 by multicultural communications specialist, Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor, founder of the National Black Cultural Information Trust, Inc. As a graduate of Syracuse University’s, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Pan African Studies master’s programs, J.A.M. Aiwuyor has dedicated her career to advancing and elevating multicultural communications.
There was also a live video tapping of the No Distractions Podcast, featuring comedians and lawyer duo Jasmine Burton and Elizabeth Booker Houston.
More speakers feature included: Brée Nachelle, Digital Strategist and former Digital Lead for NASA, Earnestine E. Dawson, Director of Strategic Planning & Special Projects Office of the Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffires, Yvonne Pearson, Founder of PinkDollhouse Marketing, Ananda Leeke and Dr. John F. Leeke, author of American Change Agent: A Life and Legacy of Seeking Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion, and Elizabeth Booker Houston and Jasmine Burton hosts of the No Distractions Podcast.
Miss Maryland Teen USA, Kinsley Potts, graced the stage by performing a rendition of Rise up and speaking during a fireside chat about the youth experience in digital media.
“As part of the National Black Cultural Information Trust, Blogger Week centers rising voices in the digital space and beyond. It is one of the few events focused on digital media that uplifts and nurtures Black and brown voices, while providing affordable training and seminars, making our conference more accessible to communities that are often marginalized in these conversations,” said Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor, NBCI Trust Founder.
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Founded in 2020, the National Black Cultural Information Trust, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides news, information, and resources for the collective freedom of Black communities.