Kiesha Nix has been named Vice President of Charitable affairs for the Los Angeles Lakers, making her the first Black woman to ever serve as VP for the basketball organization

Kiesha Nix has made history after being named Vice President of Charitable affairs for the Los Angeles Lakers. The new role makes her the first Black woman to serve as VP for the basketball organization.

Magic Johnson, has worked with Nix on multiple community projects for over a decade, told her she got the job over the phone. The executive said she almost didn’t answer the phone, because she was in a middle of a Zoom call at that time. However, when she answered, she heard Johnson say, “Hello Miss VP.”

“I had to pinch myself,” she said according to Sports Illustrated.

Nix started her career 30 years ago as a project manager at Merill Lynch and became a contract negotiator for Bank of America when the companies merged. This is when she first met Johnson and started partnering with him on community events.

Nix would later enter a career as a financial adviser where she balances leveraging her wealthy clients’ net worth with maximizing social impact. She would volunteered on the bank’s charitable foundation to help organize events and fundraisings.

In 2015, Nix started to work as the executive director for the Community Lakers Youth Foundation wherein she initiated programs for the youth’s well-being. She said she always makes sure she personally reaches out to the kids they help.

“Because they get to see a lot of themselves in me, and I see myself in them. I let them know where I grew up and where I went to school because I wanted to give them some inspiration,” Nix told The Los Angeles Sentinel.

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