The city’s focus has now shifted from Mary Sheffield’s bid to become mayor to the powerhouse transition team she’s put together that will help guide her focus for her first 100 days in office.
But before she was elected by the city to be its next mayor, there was a different team –one led by Black women – that helped lead the now-mayor-elect to one of the largest landslide victories in the city’s history.
History rarely announces itself before it arrives, but it offered an early signal on an otherwise ordinary night when Brittni “Bee” Brown — Senior Director of PR + Events at 98Forward and the communications lead for Mary Sheffield’s mayoral campaign — sent a text message to then–Council President Sheffield about her interview schedule the following morning…