Ontresicia Averette
In a tenacious search of her purpose in life, Ontresicia discovered her passion: to promote tolerance, and cohesion among people of all races, ethnicities, and cultures. She has established forums to educate, and share life experiences, as a motivator to fully, live and celebrate the greatest gift of all: LIFE.
Ontresicia Averette is the Creator, Producer, and Host of a Pasadena Community Network talk show: The Color of Success. It was created to Showcase, Motivate, and Celebrate: Culture, Creativity and Success of ordinary people, and designed to inspire viewers to discover their passions and begin to accept and live a life of success.
She is an Author of her own Memoir: Broken Spirits, A letter to my Cousin Rodney G. King. Her journey exposes the injustices of America in the 1980’s and 1990’s endured by herself in corporate America, her cousin Rodney G. King in the judicial system, and the plight of African American Communities across the nation. Her memoir is a commemorative of the 20th year anniversary of the April 29, 1992 L.A. Civil Unrest, and every life lost due to the injustices, and intolerance of our society.
Ontresicia graduated from California Polytechnic University, at Pomona. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Operations Management, and a Masters degree in Business Administration. Her professional career as business woman has placed her at some of the most affluent and largest companies in the world: Altria Group, Citibank Private Investment Banking, and NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Currently she works as a System Application Project Manager in the Healthcare industry at Kaiser Permanente.
The greatest celebration of her life was the birth of her son…the love of her life – Jaydon Amaru Faal. He is an astonishing little boy, who is wise beyond his time, who has a spirit of an angel, and the intellect of a future President. Ontresicia’s greatest success, by far, is motherhood. She spends most of her free time at the park playing soccer or basketball, sliding down slides or swinging on the swings with her son Jaydon; that’s how she celebrates life.
Visit www.brokenspiritsbook.com for additional information on her new book, Broken Spirits.