These rising local power players are advancing the community through activism, education, and more

HOW SOUTH FLORIDA LOCALS LIKE DR. TAMEKA HOBBS (ABOVE) ARE RAISING THE BAR IN TERMS OF ACTIVISM, EDUCATION, BUSINESS, MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND PHILANTHROPY.

OCTOBER 21, 2020

When a person’s passions include changing the way things are done in their chosen industry and community, life’s work goes beyond philanthropy to innovation. You may not have known their names before, but these South Florida locals are powerhouse influencers who are revolutionizing our world in both big and small ways.

THE ACTIVIST HISTORIAN

For Dr. Tameka Bradley Hobbs, it was an African American history course as an undergraduate at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee that changed the course of her life. “I was riveted,” says Hobbs, a native of Suwannee on Florida’s northern Gulf coast. “It filled in so many blanks and answered questions that I’d always had.” Growing up in post-segregation Florida, she remembers noticing the unevenness of resources in her Black community. She swiftly changed her major from business to history, igniting a passion that would guide her career as a historian, educator and activist.

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