Co-Founder, President, Black BRAND, Hampton Roads’ Regional Black Chamber of Commerce
Blair Durham is a proud Hampton Roads native and Virginia Tech Alum whose undergraduate work in psychology, African Studies, Women’s Studies, and Sociology prepared her for a career leading this regions’ Black Chamber of Commerce, Black BRAND. Together with her husband, she founded Black BRAND in 2016 to address the wealth gap with a focus on emerging and existing black business owners and business leaders. Through those efforts, Blair works to amass the support of government, corporate, and philanthropic leaders whose funding undergirds the programs she and her team develop including Black Diamond Weekend, B-Force Accelerator, HRRealCON, Women and Equality Forum, and more.