Danielle Bayard Jackson is the founder of Friend Forward, and has dedicated her career to studying what the research has to say about women's connection, cooperation and communication. When she was a high school teacher and academic chair, she heard stories from young women hungry to be seen. When she left the classroom and began working with female entrepreneurs, those women privately shared the same desire. During a time when social media has become a replacement-- not a supplement-- for connection, Danielle knew she needed to create a space that goes back to basics. Before the pandemic, she led a book club for four years, but things fell apart when people began to quarantine. Now that many women have returned to the "real world", they are hungry for live, intimate spaces...

 ... and Tampa Women's Book Club was created to answer that call.