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CFBPW

                                 Keynote Speaker Winter Board Meeting, February 23, 2024
                                                           11:00 a.m.




















                                                Carolyn Hoskins

                Founder, Executive Director & Curator of the Domini Hoskins Black History Museum &
                                                      Learning Center
                                                       Belmont, CA

               Carolyn was born and raised in Edwardsville, Illinois and married to Robert "Bob" Hoskins, a
               star football player.  As his career with the San Francisco 49ers began to take off, Bob
               and Carolyn moved their family to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s. Carolyn is an
               active member of the San Mateo NAACP and a member of the NFL Alumni Northern California
               Chapter Executive Committee.  She has spearheaded the NFL Celebrity Toy Drive since 1994
               to benefit local charities, and has five children, four grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and
               four godchildren.
               The Museum & Learning Center is named after Carolyn Hoskins’ grandson, Domini Hoskins,
               who asked “Weren’t there any other black people that did anything other than Dr. Martin Luther
               King, Jr.?”
               Carolyn received the Jefferson Award in 2022, Quiet Hero Award from Senator Jerry Hill in
               2013, and the Unsung Hero Award from the Redwood City Inter-Service Club in 2008.  She was
               the Honorary Chairperson for the San Mateo County MLK Day Celebration & Freedom Train in
               2020, and has also received quite a few community accolades including proclamations and
               commendations from the City of Redwood City (2022), Supervisor David Canepa (2022), State
               Senator Jerry Hill (2020), State Assemblymember Kevin Mullin (2020), American Association of
               University Women (2020), San Mateo County Board of Supervisors (2020), Former Menlo Park
               Mayor Ray Mueller (2019), New Sweet Home Church of God in Christ (2019) , 100 Black
               Women of San Francisco (2019), Former Redwood City Mayor Iain Bain (2019), Former
               Belmont Mayor Davina Hurt (2019), the Sterling Downs Neighborhood Association (2019),
               Positive Promotions of New York, and the San Francisco-Peninsula Alumnae Chapter of Delta
               Sigma Theta Sorority (2017).





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