Kimberly Selden didn’t grow up playing tennis. While living in Brooklyn as a 20-something working in production, she would walk past her local courts wanting to play, but having no idea where to start. After moving back to her hometown of Virginia Beach, she decided to do something about it: Enter Black Girls Tennis Club , her nonprofit encouraging Black women and girls to get into the sport. The group now operates in Virginia, New York, and Washington, D.C., providing programming, partnering with city governments to fix courts, archiving Black tennis history, and creating a pipeline for young Black women to become tennis coaches.

Selden, whose résumé boasts stints at MTV and with the Clinton, Biden, and Harris presidential campaigns, still does some social-impact consulting

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