Angela is the proud mother of her very artistically talented 15 year old son. She currently enjoys being an inspiration to today’s youth as a substitute teacher in many schools throughout the suburban areas of Columbus, Ohio . Angela has always had a passion for helping her community! She has plans to continue promoting healthy, positive, and high self-esteem in our youth! She makes every effort to shine her light as bright as she can in hopes of nurturing the light inside of the youth in order to spire them to shine as bright as possible!! This is why she is aka MS. LIT {Loving, Inspiring, & Transforming}.

Dominica Drake is the mother of five amazing children. As an aunt, Godmother, and teacher she has more children in her heart who are like her own. Her mothering persona includes being nurturing, giving and her best trait is the amount of love she pours into her children.

She is and loves being a special education teacher but she is most proud of her children and how she’s been able to raise them while obtaining both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Her purpose is to serve, love, educate, advocate, guide, and encourage young people to find and fulfill their purpose.

What Dominica loves most about Motherful is the collective of mothers whose backgrounds are different but whose stories are similar. It provides her and others with a loving, non-judgmental, and empowering space to thrive and grow. Dominica hopes to someday have a vacation with no concern or stress of finances or child care. She also wants to create, manage and maintain a thriving successful business that can be passed down to her children and create generational wealth.

Nyshia is a loving, sweet, perseverant mother of Janeih (9) and Jahleel (5). Her purpose in the world is to help and love people where they are and be the best she can be while guiding her kids.

What she loves most about Motherful is being part of a community of single moms who just get it. They have hard days and they have good days and there are days where they want to give up but Motherful is our calming space, our safe place, our home away from home.

On her bucket list is going to Hawaii and owning her own beauty salon one day!

An accomplishment she is most proud of is starting cosmetology school and never giving up, and being a mom of 2 very active kids.

Tomica is a doting mother to 2 amazing young men: Myles (17) and Spencer (15) and is the only daughter of Mary, the oldest granddaughter of Barbara, a sister, auntie, cousin, and friend.

Tomica’s passion and purpose are leading, helping, and inspiring young people and the life opportunities they are presented with. She is most proud of her resilience and her kids' hearts as humans. It is on her bucket list to travel, travel, travel! She would like to visit Hawaii, Maldives, Ghana, and Panama City.

Tomica loves being a part of Motherful because it creates a space for women to BE/ EXIST in whatever way they want. On your down/bad days the collective members encourage and lift you up and on good days they celebrate with you and cheer you on. She loves being a part of this sisterhood!

Tomica is an active volunteer for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio and Motherful! Additionally, Tomica has her own event consulting company, where she plans anything from weddings, baby showers, mom’s nights out, birthday parties, graduations, and retirement parties. Giving back and creating spaces of joy and hope to keep her going—they fill her cup up!

Tomica has an energetic and positive attitude. She is organized, thorough, and reliable and enjoys creating spaces where individuals thrive and are excited to grow. She is a leader, team player and cheerleader for the teams on which she serves. She brings natural leadership, strong work ethic, creative collaboration, and integrity to everything she does.

Born in The Islamic Republic Of Mauritania to a Muslim Scholar father who was also a journalist and raised his 14 kids with an open mind and progressive views, Roughiatou is a progressive Muslim Immigrant lawyer who came to the USA 23 years ago, not for a better life like many who come to the the US but for Freedom, to live in a society where gender, creed, color, sexual orientation, and religion don't determine how you are treated.

Mother of three, Activist, and Advocate dedicated to building networking bridges and fighting social isolation, Roughiatou leads many human rights activist groups and briefly the Amnesty USA branch 87 for Columbus Ohio. Roughiatou is strongly committed to diversity and Inclusion. Her life purpose is to lead with acceptance, supporting those with whom she connects daily to find their purpose.

Roughiatou is a certified translator/interpreter with the Supreme Court of Ohio and helps people overcome language barriers to communication.

Sisterhood is one of the many reasons she chose to become a member of Motherful’s Matriarchs Council. Being among single mothers who have been through the same road and can understand what it is to raise kids ALONE that we didn't make ALONE. The other reason is to build a shared vision of a tomorrow where Matriarchy is a norm, alleviating patriarchy’s negative effects on how women are viewed and help promote a life-affirming culture within our community.

Being a Matriarch with Motherful is a great opportunity for Roughiatou to extensively influence her community by serving both as a model and mentor to women everywhere.

Her bucket list includes establishing a health and nutrition business, building financial wealth and freedom to allow short-term humanitarian group mission trips to Africa to connect or reconnect youth at risk with African roots and building bridges around the world with partnerships and organizations fighting against Patriarchy’s pervasive effects on girls and women. Above all, she aims to build an Inclusive Community Center in her home Country of Mauritania.

The accomplishment she is the most proud of is breaking free from limiting beliefs and conciliating her liberal worldview while staying true to her culture and religion.

Melissa is the kind of mother who grows and learns with her child. She is most passionate about providing the best life she can for her 13-year-old son. The thing she loves most about being on the Matriarch's Council and a member of Motherful is the powerful connections she has made and the incredible knowledge she gains from the Collective. Melissa loves to travel and some remote destinations are on her bucket list from the Maldives to Bali. The accomplishment she is most proud of is how she takes the dreams and visions she has had and turns them into reality.