2025 Queens Charity Lunch PANEL
2025 QCL Panel Leader, Executive Director, Shemaine Pickens
2025 QCL Panel Leader, Executive Director, Shemaine Pickens
2025 QCL Panel Leader, Executive Director, Shemaine Pickens
At this years Queen‘s Charity Lunch, the Fertile Ground Foundation will host its first ever panel discussion. This years topic will be “The Importance of Self-care and Infertility”. This years panel will be led by Fertile Ground Founder and Executive Director, Shemaine Pickens and Co-Director, Courtney Dial-Thurman. It’s sure to be an excellent dialogue about how to care for yourself while dealing with infertility!
Co-FOUNDER & Panelist, HERBERT PICKENS iii
2025 QCL Panel Leader, Executive Director, Shemaine Pickens
2025 QCL Panel Leader, Executive Director, Shemaine Pickens
Co-Director, Courtney Dial-Thurman will join Executive Director, Shemaine Pickens on stage for this years discussion panel as Fertile Ground focuses on “Self-care and Infertility”!
2024 QCL PANEL GUESTS
Take a look at our panelists for qcl2024
It was an amazing experience hearing our panelists Nichelle Sublett and Chimere Neal speak about self-care and infertility!
Guest Panelist, Nichelle Sublett
Fertility Advocate. TEDx Speaker, Former Mrs. North Carolina!
Nichelle Sublett, Fertility Advocate, TEDx Speaker, and former Mrs. North Carolina 2018, lives by the quote “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” She is a Senior Immunology Specialist for Johnson & Johnson, and her passion is bringing awareness to infertility, which affects one in six couples nationwide.
Nichelle and her husband Harold welcomed their miracle son, Hudson Dean, in September 2019 after six, arduous years of fertility treatments and five miscarriages. Nichelle later gave birth to their daughter, Siena Wynn, in June 2022, also conceived through IVF.
Through her advocacy work and the #startasking movement, she aims to reduce the stigma associated with infertility, and spread hope to impacted couples by sharing her story of resilience and persistence.
Guest Panelist, Nichelle Sublett
Fertility Advocate, LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER AND PSYCHOTHERAPIST WITH ATRIUM HEALTH
Chimere Neal is a Charlotte native who currently works at Atrium Health as a Licensed Psychotherapist. She provides individual, family and couples counseling. Chimere believes in striving to help her client's reach their full potential and maintain their emotional well-being.
Join us at the QCL 2025!
Tickets go on sale 8/1 for the Queens Charity Lunch April 20, 2025!