She Can Professional Development Fund offers hope for business owners affected by the COVID-19 pandemic Shall We Wine founder, author and wine educator Regine Rousseau is among the #SheCanThrive2020 grant recipients. (Courtesy of Shall We Wine) By Feb 2, 2021
McBride Sisters Collection, one of the largest Black-owned wine companies in the United States, created the She Can Professional Development Fund in 2019 to promote the professional advancement of women in the wine industry. That year, sisters
Andréa McBride John awarded nearly $40,000 in scholarships to help close the gender and race gap in wine.
Since then, the fund has grown by more than 600 percent, and will distribute $300,000 in grants to the She Can Thrive class of 2020 (the fund shares its name with McBride Sisters’