The Jamaican American award-winning fashion designer, Hope Wade, was honored by the East Ramapo Central School District in Rockland County, New York, with her featured selection for the fifth annual East Ramapo Central School District Regent Judith Johnson Sheroes Series, a video production that celebrates the role that women of the local community have had on society. The series was launched in 2022 and since then, a committee comprising community members has worked with the district to identify new “sheroes” and produce videos for students in the district. Honored to be a “Sheroe” Wade was selected for the 2024 video because of her strong support of her community, her belief in “giving back,” and her mentorship of high school students who have an interest in fashion.
Wade is the owner of Hope Wade Designs in Nyack, New York , and the creator and executive producer of Rockland Fashion Week. Responding to the honor, Wade said, “To be called a Sheroe in any capacity is humbling but to think that your name is esteemed in the same light as Regent Judith Johnson is daunting. And I think what really got to me was that the video would be shown to all the students in the E.
Ramapo School District. Wow! (I had the honor of meeting her once when I was invited by President Michael Baston of Rockland Community College to a breakfast at the college.)” A born designer Hope Blake Wade was born in Kingston to Mavis Blake and Eustance “Gussie” Blake, Superintendent of Pol.
