As CEO and co-owner of Shannon, Shannon & Associates, Inc., a family-owned and operated financial planning firm in Montgomery, Alabama, Nicovanna Shannon gives back to others using the power of numbers because, at an early age, her mother instilled the importance of community-building.

Connie Perry sits down with Kin + Dignity Magazine to share Her Story, 1968 from Wilmington, Delaware. She talks her experience in the civil rights movement and how her involvement led to working with the future 46th POTUS.