Asheville Chapter of the Links, Inc. Hosts Awards and Scholarship Gala
Each year the Asheville Chapter of the Links, Incorporated hosts the Linkage and Scholarship Award Gala at which the organization recognizes community members for their humanitarian contributions and students for their academic achievements, based on five distinguishing facets of the organization.
Viola Spells, Link Scholarship Chair; Tatiana Carter, mother of scholarship recipient Imani Mosley; Imani Mosley; Jermaine Mosley, and Diane Mance, president-elect of the Asheville Chapter of the Links, Inc.
This year’s Gala was held on Saturday, April 21, at the Renaissance Hotel in Asheville, and honored Mr. Keynon Lake for Services to Youth; Ms. LaKesha McDay for Health and Human Services; Dr. Dwight Mullen for National Trends and Services; Ms. Vandora Henderson for International Trends; and Ms. Cleaster Cotton for The Arts.
Ms. Imani Mosley, a senior at Asheville High School student and member of the National Honor Society, was the recipient of a $2,000 academic scholarship from the Links, Inc. She plans to attend North Carolina Central University as a Psychology major. Imani is the daughter of Tatiana Carter and Jermaine Mosley.
About the Links, Incorporated
The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation, established in 1946. The membership comprises nearly 15,000 professional women of color located in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. It is one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations committed to enriching, sustaining, and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry.
