Beauty Icon and Essence Magazine’s Editor-at-Large Mikki Taylor Will Share Insights on Navigating Beauty, Style, Mental and Physical Health & Other Aspects of Womanhood
Central Pointe Church of Christ will host their 23rd annual conference on Friday, August 9th through Saturday August 10th. The conference will take place at 7440 S. Westmoreland, Dallas, Texas 75237. The theme is “Healing the Inner Girl.” ESSENCE Magazine’s Editor-at-Large Mikki Taylor will be the keynote speaker on both Friday evening and Saturday morning. General admission registration is $50, which will include a Central Pointe swag bag, Friday evening dinner, as well as breakfast and lunch on Saturday. VIP registration, which is $65, includes a swag bag, private dinner area for Friday and lunch on Saturday, VIP picture area, and special hors d’oeuvres While online registration is sold out, attendees will be able to register at the door.
Keynote speaker Mikki Taylor is an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, cultural storyteller, empowerment speaker, and media personality. Taylor is also known as the country’s leading authority on beauty and style for women of color and has made a deep impact through intersectional storytelling across generations. As the former Beauty & Cover Director at ESSENCE Magazine for over 30 years, Taylor casted and produced over 500 covers, including the iconic first family photo of The Obamas. She also produced its signature beauty pages to affirm and inspire the culture’s evolutionary definition of beauty.
Currently serving as ESSENCE’s Editor-at-Large, Taylor empowers at the Magazine’s live events such as the ESSENCE Festival of Culture’s PowerStage in New Orleans, during Oscar Week at the ESSENCE Hollywood House and on the pages of the Magazine. Taylor also scripted and served as host for nearly a decade for the ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards which is dedicated to honoring the power and presence of Black women in front of as well as behind the camera. Taylor has authored critically- acclaimed books including Self-Seduction: Your Ultimate Path to Inner & Outer Beauty (Random House); Commander in Chic: Every Woman’s Guide to Managing Her Style Like a First Lady (Simon and Schuster); Editor-in-Chic: How to Style and Be Your Most Empowered Self (Simon and Schuster) and Force of Beauty: A Newark Family Memoir, an Audible Original, co-authored with filmmaker Deborah Riley Draper.
Taylor’s work with ESSENCE has been immortalized in OWN Network’s Time of Essence, where she shed critical light on the trailblazing magazine’s evolution, and its role in shaping culture, empowering women, and championing diversity for more than 50 years. As a Media Personality Taylor’s keen insights concerning Black women is what makes her an industry MVP. She’s currently been featured in several documentaries including Netflix’s docuseries The Black Beauty Effect and Vogue Magazine YouTube Originals Supreme Models which explores how she and other influential Black professionals in the beauty industry challenged and redefined global standards around representation.
Taylor’s background in beauty, fashion and women’s empowerment resonates deeply with the theme “Healing the Inner Girl,” based on her impactful work with ESSENCE Magazine and the many ways it has reflected womanhood for more than half a century. Taylor will speak during the Friday evening “Night of Fashion” program, which will begin at 7:00 pm. Dinner will be served at 5:30 pm.
Taylor will also speak Saturday morning, with breakfast served at 7:30 am and the workshops beginning at 9:00 am. There will be four workshops covering topics such as mental health, physical health, navigating friendships in womanhood and ministering while healing.
Online registration is sold out, but guests will be able to complete registration onsite.
B-ROLL/PHOTO/INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES
- Mikki Taylor is available for pre-event virtual interviews as well as onsite interviews on Friday and Saturday of the event.
- To request pre-event or onsite interviews or to request media credentials to attend and cover the event, please contact Kayla Tucker Adams, KTA Media Group, at info@kaylatuckeradams.com or 214-403-9852.
About Central Pointe Church of Christ
In the late summer of 2000, Dr. Reginald B. Dulin seized the opportunity to further the cause of Christ in a new territory while addressing the needs of Dallas West Church of Christ members commuting from heavily populated and fast-growing Southern Dallas County and communities south of Interstate 20. In September 2000, thirty members of the newly formed Central Pointe Church of Christ held their first Bible Class in the chapel of the Cedar Crest Place Funeral Home. On October 1, 2000, the congregation settled at 1003 N. Cockrell Hill in Duncanville, Texas, which it later purchased. In 2003, Central Pointe purchased its current property located at 7440 S. Westmoreland Road, Dallas, Texas. Central Pointe has grown to a congregation numbering over 1,000 and serves the spiritual needs of members throughout the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex, and globally via its online membership. In 2006, Dr. Rodney D. Dulin was named Senior Minister and still serves faithfully in this capacity today. On June 7, 2009, the Dr. R. B. Dulin Children’s Worship Center was dedicated to honor the legacy of the church’s founding pastor. For more information on Central Pointe, please visit centralpointechurch.org.
