Meet the Mamas

Myown Holmes

Chief Marketing Officer

Myown Holmes is a social media strategist, influencer, wife, and mother to four sons. She launched her business, Socially Polished, while working her 9 to 5, balancing her family life with 2 sons with developmental delays.

Myown’s business Socially Polished helps clients, like Brown Mamas, achieve success in their business by providing social media marketing strategies and assisting with the implementation of social media, email and video marketing campaigns. As a marketing consultant with Brown Mamas, Holmes has heightened visibility and increased profits for their business partners.

Dionna Rojas-Orta

Mentoring Program
Administrator

Dionna is a Speaker, Author, Award-Winning Business Owner and Certified Life Coach. 

She has more than 20 years in the human services space mitigating family crisis and successful

Co-parenting. Her faith-driven work led her to train hundreds of parents in the family reunification process and most recently, prompted her to launch her Pittsburgh-based coaching company, Treasure You. Dionna works with Brown Mamas as the Program Manager of their mentoring and support group initiatives. Specializing in helping women balance work and family life while achieving clarity and peace of mind, developing and facilitating programming for Brown Mamas comes as second nature to her. . The Pittsburgh native has received multiple awards, including the Pittsburgh Courier Women of Excellence and the Onyx Emerging Leader award.

Allegra Battle

Production Manager

Allegra Battle is an award-winning journalist and experienced events manager. For more than 20 years, she has produced, managed, curated, and organized fashion-focused events and educational programs. As the Production Manager of the Brown Mama Monologues, Allegra oversees the entire showcase, from working directly with our Storytellers to managing vendors and ensuring the quality of the production on the big day. She is a mom to one fantastic super-star daughter and the founder of CitySTYLE412, an online fashion, lifestyle, and travel series. Allegra holds a BA in Broadcast Journalism from Howard University in Washington, DC.

Ke’ira Washington

Social Impact Ambassador

Ke’ira Washington is a cultural educator, author, mother of 7, and owner of Uyoyaa. She educates and elevates black communities as a pillar of Sankofa. Keira has worked within the justice system for 18 years and advocated for equal justice for melanated people. Keira has taught high school and college students Africana studies and Congolese dance for 20-plus years. She is the founder of the Rites of Passage 2 Part Workshop and Coming of Age Workshops for black women and girls who find their strength upon the foundation of healing.