(BALTIMORE – November 21, 2024)—Be sure to RSVP for BMORENews.com’s Black Wall Street SOIREE, our annual fundraiser to support our Joe Manns Black Wall Street initiative, on Thursday, December 5, 2024 (6 to 9 pm) at the Downtown Cultural Arts Center at 401 N. Howard Street.
RSVP to https://blackwallstreetsoiree.eventbrite.com/.
As always, the event will feature the Joe Manns Black Wall Street Awards, where we celebrate Black entrepreneurs and professionals as well as the people who support them regardless of race.
Honorees will include Towanda R. Livingston.
Who is Towanda?
Towanda R. Livingston is a successful and award-winning Economic Inclusion and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Executive with almost three (3) decades of strategic and tactical experience in the government, public and private sectors. She is an innovative thought leader in diversity, equity, inclusion, and economic inclusion/supplier diversity leader of this era. Towanda’s career focused on equipping, empowering, and enabling minority, women, and other marginalized groups and businesses in the workplace and marketplace with practical solutions and tools that advances their positions in the workplace and marketplace.
She accomplishes this through top-line and bottom-line-driven growth and development solutions that forge profitable partnerships between industry and diverse suppliers. Towanda is the Director of Business Diversity (Supplier) Diversity for Constellation Energy. She serves as the driving force for advocating progressive supplier diversity and economic inclusion strategies that are taught in the way Constellation does business.
Business Diversity connects Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Workforce Development, Sustainability, and Supplier Diversity; these key economic inclusion drivers are critical in ensuring the financial well-being of our communities and neighbors. In 2023, Constellation spent 21.1% (521.8 million dollars) with diverse and small suppliers.
Constellation is a Fortune 200 company headquartered in Baltimore with approximately 14,000 employees. Constellation Energy Corporation (Nasdaq: CEG) is the nation’s largest producer of clean, carbon-free energy and a leading supplier of energy products and services to businesses, homes, community aggregations, and public sector customers across the continental United States, including three-fourths of Fortune 100 companies.
With a nearly 90% carbon-free annual output, our hydro, wind, and solar facilities, paired with the nation’s largest nuclear fleet, have the generating capacity to power the equivalent of 15 million homes, providing about 10% of the nation’s clean energy. We are further accelerating the nation’s transition to a carbon-free future by helping our customers reach their sustainability goals, setting our own ambitious goal of achieving 100% carbon-free generation by 2040, and investing in promising emerging technologies to eliminate carbon emissions across all sectors of the economy.
Towanda has been a volunteer coach/mentor for SCORE Delaware since 2017.
Education
Towanda holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA), specializing in the Science of Management and Leadership from Rosemont College in Rosemont, Pennsylvania. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Science Degree in Criminal Justice from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She successfully completed and received her certificate from The Philadelphia Urban League’s Leadership Institute and led her team of classmates in developing a whitepaper on Supplier Diversity. She possesses various professional development certifications in many areas of her profession.
Professional Philosophy/Mottos
✓ “Diversity…just the way we do business!”
✓ “We will become an organization that thinks strategically, learns proactively and changes
tactically.”
✓ “A Strategic Partner is one who knows, understands, and shows their support of our core
strategies; can live up to our core values…is agile; innovative; can grow with us…. has
positioned themselves to bring us value by anticipating our needs and is able to deliver cost
effective solutions with our customers in mind.”
✓ “Once you have tasted the sweetness of excellence it is hard to go back to being mediocre.”
✓ “Either by inspiration or desperation you will be pushed into your purpose.”
✓ “It doesn’t’ matter how good you are if you don’t show up.”
Family
Towanda is married to Bryan A. Livingston are both proud natives of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
