Maude Okrah
Co-founder & CEO, Black Beauty Roster
About Speaker
Maude Okrah is an entrepreneur who is passionate about bringing solutions to underserved minority markets. She has over 10 years of experience working in strategy with startups and Fortune 500 companies. She is co-founder and CEO of BBR (Black Beauty Roster). Black Beauty Roster is a digital DE&I platform that connects the TV, Film & Editorial world with hairstylists and makeup artists trained in textured hair and darker complexions while also increasing education around textured hair and darker complexions to the industry at large. BBR has worked with industry leading companies like Warner Bros Discovery, Walt Disney, and L’Oreal. She has been featured in Forbes, Inc, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Allure,Insider and more for BBR's work to bring more equity and opportunity into the industry. She received the Women’s Ceiling Crashers award from AT&T. She has been appointed Commissioner for DC’s Commission on Fashion Arts and Beauty and also is a member of the Textured Hair Coalition. Maude is Ghanian American and originally from Boston, MA. She is an alumnus of Emerson College.