President Joe Biden announced that Emmy-winner Viola Davis and former Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. CEO Rosalind Brewer will be advisors on a newly-created White House council focused on engaging with the African diaspora living in the United States.
Other participants on the board, which was first announced in December and will have a dozen members, include PepsiCo Foundation President C.D. Glin, Spelman College President Helene Gayle, investor Mimi Alemayehou, Center for American Progress President Patrick Hubert Gaspard, Quoin Capital LLC’s Osagie Imasogie and WNBA player Chiney Ogwumike.
Reverend Silvester Scott Beaman, bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, will chair the council.
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