Know a Black leader in Sacramento? Nominate them in The Bee’s Black Change Makers series

Sacramento is rich with talent — help us find the trailblazers in the city’s Black community.

Nominations have opened to find the next cohort to represent The Sacramento Bee’s Top 20 Black Change Makers.

The Change Maker series is a collaboration between The Bee’s Equity Lab and the Nehemiah Emerging Leaders Program. The project celebrates pioneers in the Latino, Black and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

Nominees should be leaders who find solutions to critical issues through community organization, education, arts and entertainment, entrepreneurship, law, medicine and health care, science, politics, nonprofit leadership or activism.

For inspiration, meet the past cohorts of Black Change Makers from 2022 and 2023.

This upcoming cohort will be the third in a series that will run into early next year. This iteration of the series began with the Top 20 AAPI Change Makers back in September. The Top 20 Latino Change Makers will publish this winter.

We’ll honor this round of change makers, bringing together the latest 60 leaders, at an event at Sacramento State’s University Ballroom on April 4, 2025. Tickets can be purchased here.

Since the project’s inception in 2022, it has honored 155 individuals.

Submit your nomination here: bit.ly/BlackChangeMakers2024

This story was originally published November 21, 2024 at 5:00 AM.