INDESTRUCTIBLE BEGINNINGS

Clarease Rankin Yates

Founder

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• Certified Etiquette Trainer for Teens

• Business Etiquette and International Protocol

• Consultant through Washington School of Protocol

• First African-American Woman Judge appointed to United States Immigration Bench

• Founder/Director of “Let the Fashions Begin-Men of Style” – nonprofit that raised funds for Sickle Cell Research

• Recognized as Woman of Distinction by several organizations

• Lifetime member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

• Served as Officer of the Houston Chapter of Links, Inc.

• Author, “ABCs of Common Courtesy”