Officers

President

Shawna Mays-Archie

Shawna is one of the founders of Women of Color Book Club along with her mother Carolyn and a native of La Marque, Texas. She is a proud La Marque Alumni graduate class of 89 and proud mother of gorgeous daughter Brooklyn C. Archie who is the love of life.

She is currently employed at University of Texas Medical Branch in the Cardiology Department. She is a member of Greater Barbour's Chapel Baptist Church in Texas City where she sings in Mass Choir and Praise Team.

She has always had a passion for reading because it is very relaxing. Several years ago she decided to get a group of ladies together that also shared that same passion for reading and formed a book club. It has been 22 years strong and we are steady building our book club family. Her favorite bible verse is Philippians 4:13, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

Vice President

CarolynMays

Carolyn resides in Texas City, TX and recently retired from NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston as a Personnel Security Specialist since 1973. She will now spend more time doing what she loves most family, reading and traveling more. She is the mother of two beautiful daughters Tracy and Shawna and the very proud grandmother of 6 grand-daughters and one grandson. She along with her daughter Shawna, started the Women of Color Book Club in 1997. She developed a love for reading at a very young age and the passion is even stronger now. She loves her WOC Book Club Sisters and the relationship they have all developed. Carolyn is a member of Greater Barbour’s Chapel Baptist Church in Texas City where she sings in the choir. Her favorite scripture is , “Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

Secretary

Joyce Bell

Joyce was born to Elmo Bell Jr. & Ursula Abercrombie Bell on October 5, 1952. In grade six, her mother moved to Galveston and she attended Ursuline Academy, an all girls’ Catholic school. Approaching her eleventh grade year, three Galveston Catholic High Schools consolidated to form O’Connell High School. Joyce was a 1970 graduate of O’Connell High School. She attended University of Houston and graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Elementary Education; then she later attended University of Houston at Clear Lake where she majored in Educational Administration. She is the mother of one daughter, Ursula Katrease Nance-Hare, and the grandmother of Kierra (“K.K”) Nance and Kendrè Nance. The glow in her smile is because she is also the great grandmother of Reign Currie. After teaching for 36 years, in the city of La Marque, TX, where she resides, she is very well known in the community. She is also the author of four fiction novels, entitled, BAGGAGE, STAY IN YOUR LANE, THREE LITTLE WORDS, and DRAMA KING.