Our February Guests
February 5 & 19, 2023
Our History, Heritage, Pride & Legacy...
Unapologetically Black 365!
Adonnica Toler
Museum Director
Eartha M. M. White Historical Museum, Inc.
President and CEO
Toler-Vision Creative Consulting
Adonnica Toler is the President and CEO of Toler-Vision Creative Consulting, Where History, Art and Culture connect. Toler is an experienced internationally acclaimed art curator, exhibit designer and installer, historian, researcher, and tour guide. Toler has curated over 70 art and history exhibits and was awarded two Jacksonville Historic Preservation Awards from the City of Jacksonville for exhibits that celebrated little
known local history.
For 22 years, she was the museum assistant, then the MuseumAdministrator for the Ritz Theatre and Museum, an African American theatre andmuseum in the historic La Villa neighborhood in Jacksonville, FL.Presently Toler is the Museum Director of the Eartha M. M. White Historical Museum,Inc. located in the Clara White Mission at 613 W. Ashley Street.
Ju'Coby Pittman
CEO & President
The Clara White Mission
Ju'Coby Pittman continues the legacy of Eartha White by being a nonprofit leader in Jacksonville and innovator in human services and anti-poverty advocacy. Community engagement has kept her at the forefront of Jacksonville’s progress to develop programs that promote economic growth and neighborhood revitalization.
She is the visionary behind the Clara White Mission's veteran services, vocational training program, job placement, programs and affordable housing programs.
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Pittman has been working to improve Jacksonville for over 30 years. She was featured on the “Today Show” for developing innovative training programs like the CWM Culinary Arts, Janitorial-Construction Clean-Up, Electrical and Environmental Safety & Agriculture Safety Training through NCCER.
Pittman and her team have developed the White Harvest Farms an initiative of the Clara White Mission, to serve families living in food desert communities.