Leadership

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April N. Richardson Esq. is a single mother to her awesome son, an Attorney and an Entrepreneur. Ms. Richardson is the President of Food Opportunity LLC, a company that promotes the ownership of manufacturing food companies for woman and minority businesses. Under the company, she owns the DC Sweet Potato Cake brand and Baked In Baltimore retail manufacturing bakery. In less than a year of owning the company, she and her team turned the struggling bakery into one of the fastest-growing commercial bakeries in the DC region. She has attracted national contracts such as Starbucks, Safeway, Wegmans, Nordstrom, and QVC. She has appeared in the Washington Post, Forbes, Baltimore Sun, Bloomberg, Fox 5, CNN, BBC, and BET/Centric and debuted on QVC selling over 1,400 cakes in 8 minutes