VIRTUAL LINK-UP
Werkville hosts monthly virtual link-ups (we know another Zoom meeting 🙂) every third Thursday of the month at 8 pm ET. During our monthly link up, we provide early career Black professionals the community they need to enrich and sustain their careers.
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WORK WITH US
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INSPIRATION
Werkville was named to pay homage to Weeksville, which was a historically Black neighborhood in Crown Heights, NY founded by free slaves.
Do you know about Weeksville? Well if you don’t, here is a history lesson they left out of our textbooks: In 1838 James Weeks, a Black dockworker from Virginia bought a plot of land from Henry C. Thompson, a free Black man and land investor, in the Ninth Ward of central Brooklyn. Thus forming the historic Weeksville community, established by a group of African-American land investors and political activists, and covered an area in the borough's eastern Bedford Hills area, bounded by present-day Fulton Street, East New York Avenue, Ralph Avenue, and Troy Avenue. Where the thriving Black community once stood, is now Weeksville Heritage Center.
FOUNDER
Werkville was founded by SaDiedrah Harris, who works at the intersection of DEI, strategic communications, social impact, and racial equity. She founded Werkville in June 2023 because she saw an urgent need for a better way for Black professionals to be able to exist in their workplaces. She also just loves to connect with Black people and see them flourish.