Founder story

"Building sustainable, joyful futures for marginalized communities through innovation and art."

Charlea Bing · ASALH National Conference

Charlea Bing is an award-winning civic leader and project coordinator with a decade of documented public impact — featured in the Tampa Bay Times, USA Today, and Le Nouvel Obs, and recognized by the Black Voices for Black Justice Fund. She was appointed PAC Chair of the NAACP Florida State Youth Council at age 13, spoke at the March for Our Lives rally in front of more than 15,000 people at age 15, and was archived by Duke University in their youth activist class at age 19.

When George Floyd was murdered, Charlea was still in high school. She staged a school-wide walkout, then founded Black N Tampa — launching a community magazine, restoring a Belmont Heights garden, delivering free tutoring across Hillsborough County schools, and creating Black N Therapy, a free mental-health program. As sophomore class president, she worked directly with the Hillsborough County School District to help draft policy. She helped mobilize 2,000+ petition signatures that contributed to Jamie Bullock's felony sentence reduction and co-led COVID-era Operation Takeback Prom for 2,000+ students.

A 2025 Florida A&M graduate in African-American Studies & Music Industry — graduating honors and top of her cohort — U.S. State Department Gilman Scholar (Kenya), and Scrum-certified PMP candidate, Charlea interned for Angela Rye during her junior year of college and has since presented her thesis on quantum mechanics and African spirituality at the ASALH National Conference, hosted her own radio show The Charlea Experience at USIU-Africa, spearheaded Black History Month programming at USIU-Africa as the only Gen Z panelist, and won Best Position Paper at the national Kenya Model UN competition, where she addressed the assembly for the crisis committee.

Today, Charlea is becoming a paralegal — a field where Black women make up 11.4% of employed paralegals and legal assistants in the U.S. — with the long-term goal of earning a J.D. and continuing to advocate inside and outside the courtroom. She is also a member of the She Should Run Local Leader Lab national cohort, building the civic infrastructure and leadership pipeline that turns community care into policy power.