Kim BrattainFounder/ CEO, Kim Brattain Media · Award-winning Corporate and Documentary Film Producer

2020 BPC Winter Gala: Businesswoman of the Year - Emma Allen| Awards Video

23 Sept 2022 · 2 min

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The video captures a segment of the 2020 BPC Winter Gala where organizers celebrate Black excellence in the Charlotte‑Mecklenburg area. The Business Award, which honors a businessperson who contributes knowledge, time, and resources to community growth and stability, is presented. Emma Allen of Emma Allen State Farm Agency is announced as the recipient. In her brief remarks, she expresses excitement and aligns the honor with her personal commitment to serving Charlotte. The segment concludes with an impassioned, poetic appeal urging collective unity and cooperation to build a just, indivisible nation.

Oh my gosh, it's been, it's been a journey, a wonderful journey to ensure that we are celebrating Black excellence here in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
The Business Award is presented to a business person who contributes his or her knowledge, time, and resources to enhance the growth and stability of our community.
For contributing your knowledge, time, and resources to the enhancement of the community. This year's Business Award recipient is Emma Allen of Emma Allen State Farm Agency.
So excited that this great organization that aligns so closely with what I believe and the commitment that I have to our community has selected me in honor of this for our service to Charlotte.
If we get together, if we join hands together, what a nation! What a day this will be if the stones that the builders rejected, if we get together, we can make this nation one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. But somebody better get together. What a day! What a day! What a day!