Currently seeking volunteers for the "New" LRoom Board
Founder
E. Clement Swan, Owner & Founder
Founders Statement:
“Every woman deserves a peaceful break from work and family chores.”
TheLRoom is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Gloria C. Swan, who raised five children working as a nurse. My mom worked a minimum of eighteen hours a day, five to seven days a week. Like thousands of women with, and without partners, mom was totally exhausted but didn't have a women's space to go and relax, de-stress and re-juvenate.
TheLRoom is that place, a dedicated women's space for relaxation, de-stressing, and regeneration for a few hours, or
vacation/stay-cation for a few days. This is important for the well‑being and health of all women and their families.
Join me in making TheLRoom an international brand name for women. The vision is to create LRoom's in every city and nation.
Working together we can do this.
Thank you,
E. Clement Swan
FYI: There were 30.7 million women in the United States aged 25 and older with a bachelor's degree or more according to the 2010 census. 71.9 million women, were in the work force in 2010. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
E. Clement Swan currently lives in Durham, NC. Prior to relocating to North Carolina from New York City, Ms. Swan studied business at several New York colleges including Bernard Baruch College, Queens College, City College in NYC, and The Fashion Institute of Technology, earning a degree in Marketing and Fashion Buying. Ms. Swan has lectured at New York University, Columbia University Law School, Suffolk College, and scores of institutes of higher learning in the New York City area. Her passions are Social Justice, Women's Rights and Equality for People of African Descent.
As publisher of SheBiz Magazine (1980's publication), Ms. Swan organized the NYC SheBiz Women in Business Conference and The National Black Wall Street Conference in Durham, NC (2004) which brought together many of America's Women and African American Entrepreneurs for the purpose of sharing their knowledge with the general public and small businesses.
Ms. Swan's marketing client base spans from the small business owner to Who's Who in America and beyond. This extensive list includes President Barack Obama's Campaign, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis, FUBU, Warner Brothers, Jesse Jackson Campaign, African National Congress, Chase Bank, Pan Am Airways, Black Sororities and Fraternities, Eastern Stars, NAACP, NYC and NC LGBTQ Communities, Salsa Soul Sisters, NYC Board Of Education, NYC Library System and Muhammad Ali, who's marketing manager called her: “One of the best marketers ever.”
E. Clement Swan has been editorialized, participated on panels, and has consulted in almost every media outlet, including ABC News, NPR, Detroit News, Washington Times, NY Times, BET, Essence Magazine, Black Enterprise, Sisters Expo, Oprah Winfrey Show, Montel Williams Show, Tony Browns Journal, NC News & Observer, NC Herald Sun, among countless others. She has donated to endless causes, the most recent being George Floydd Memorial Foundation, Black Lives Matter, President Barack Obama Campaign, The Trayvon Martin Foundation, Hurricane Katrina and Haiti Flood Victims. She's also a proud member of Knarrative (Educates Black People on our history past & present) and the social justice org SONG (Southerner's On New Ground) in 2017 it launched "Black Mama Cash Bailouts" which is now a national movement.
Having done all this, she believes her greatest achievement is the raising of her two accomplished daughters; Ayo Sanderson Wilson, Esquire and Dara Ebun Sanderson.
