MISSION
Color of Fashion, a non-profit organization founded by visionary Black female entrepreneurs Samantha Joseph and Alicia Myers, is transforming the fashion industry by advancing inclusivity, diversity, and racial equality.
Our mission is to elevate all colors of fashion and beauty, emphasizing their crucial role in advancing racial equality. By shining a spotlight on underrepresented talents from diverse backgrounds, we challenge conventional norms and reshape perceptions of beauty and style. We create luxurious showcases that redefine standards and elevate innovation within the industry,
Together, We Are Stronger.
CONTACT US
Admin: coloroffshionadmin@gmail.com
Founders: coloroffashionco@gmail.com
OUR FOUNDERS
SAMANTHA JOSEPH and ALICIA MYERS
Founded by Samantha Joseph and Alicia Myers, Color of Fashion was built on the belief that fashion is a powerful tool for representation, community, and opportunity.
Samantha Joseph brings a visionary creative lens shaped by both education and lived industry experience. She holds a BA in Fashion Merchandising from Columbia College Chicago and a Culinary degree from Le Cordon Bleu Chicago. After exploring multiple career paths, her unwavering passion for fashion led her back to the industry with renewed purpose. In 2020, she founded NWἉ Magazine, where she serves as CEO, creating a safe and empowering platform dedicated to amplifying Black talent. As a professional model, Samantha has been featured in Forbes, Vogue, and Lady Gunn, and has walked runways including NYFW, DFW, and CFW. Her career began behind the scenes at Chicago Fashion Week in 2012, grounding her leadership in a deep understanding of both the creative and operational sides of fashion.
Alicia Myers anchors Color of Fashion with strong business leadership and creative direction. She earned her BA in Business Management from Metropolitan State University of Denver and brings over a decade of professional experience across banking, stocks, law enforcement, and fraud. A natural relationship builder and strategist, Alicia pairs discipline with creativity. While fashion was always part of her story, she also spent years competing in basketball through grade school and college—shaping the work ethic and resilience she brings to every project. Alicia later fully immersed herself in fashion as a model, stylist, and creative director, earning features in VOGUE, Westword, Sheen Magazine, and Cosmopolitan, and working with brands such as Popsockets and Artifact Uprising. She also serves as Creative Director of NWἉ Magazine, with a clear commitment to empowerment through inclusivity.
Together, Samantha and Alicia lead Color of Fashion with intention—bridging creativity, business, and community to create space, access, and visibility for emerging and established talent alike.
OUR TEAM
THE CURIO CABINET, PRESS DIRECTORS
Founded by Abby Schirmacher and Jordan McClendon Garcia, The Curio Cabinet is a female-owned digital magazine platform dedicated to providing genuine content to readers interested in fashion, beauty, music, lifestyle, culture and more. The Denver-based team is committed to truth, accuracy, high-quality prose and building relationships with local business owners and community members. A bit of playful tone and humor is sprinkled in along the way to make The Curio Cabinet the publication to bookmark for all things Denver and beyond. Stay curious. (Image: Roxanna Carrasco)
MAIA PARISH, F&B DIRECTOR
Maia Parish is a Denver-based sommelier, wine writer, educator, and events producer. She holds a BA in Journalism and Communications and a WSET Level 2 certification, and is the Founder of The Wine Suite LLC, a pairing-focused events company centering Black and Brown cultures, women, and LGBTQ+ communities. Her work has earned major recognition, including Event of the Year (2019) for Night in Wakanda and Sommelier of the Year (2024) from Wine and Culture Refined/Hue Society.
Maia is a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier Colorado and a mentor with Batonnage Forum. Her writing appears in Food & Wine, Wine Enthusiast, VinePair, Ebony, USA Today, Somm Journal, and 5280 Magazine, and explores race, community, and food-driven storytelling. She is a frequent speaker at leading industry events nationwide.
KEISHA SARPONG, DESIGNER COORDINATOR
Keisha Sarpong is a stylist and creative with experience across personal, bridal, editorial, and fashion styling. Through her styling work, she has developed a thoughtful approach to sourcing and curating garments, building relationships
with designers and brands, and bringing creative visions to life through clothing.
As the designer coordinator, she brings a stylist’s eye for storytelling, intentional curation, and the connection between clothing, culture, and identity to her work with the CoF team.
SPENCER GORDON, RECRUITER AND EVENT TEAM LEAD
Spencer Gordon is a trained designer and seamstress based in Denver, Colorado, with a deep passion for creating space for the next generation of fashion tastemakers and cultural curators in the Denver community. With a B.S. in Apparel
Design from Colorado State University and as the designer behind local label Rose Tint, Spencer embraces inclusive design philosophies and approaches garment-making from an experimental perspective. Spencer has been involved with
COF since Season II and has developed a deep appreciation for its founders and mission to create a space for high-end, inclusive runway shows. As the organization’s Event & Recruitment Lead, Spencer is committed to connecting
with Denver’s next generation of volunteers, creatives, and fashion enthusiasts who want to contribute to this growing community. With a mission that truly walks the talk: Stronger Together!
BELLA QUINTANA, SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Bella Quintana is a marketing professional with more than 7 years of experience managing social media and has spent her career creating content that brings brands to life. Her background includes leading social media strategy, managing
brand identity, and producing video content from the initial idea all the way through the final cut.
A UC Berkeley alum with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Bella combines a strategic mindset with a love for all things creative. Outside of marketing, she’s a dancer, fashion enthusiast, and big believer in the power of self-expression. At Color of Fashion, she brings her social media expertise and creative perspective to amplify diverse talent, celebrate individuality, and share the stories shaping Denver’s fashion community.
JASMINE ABENA COLGAN, ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER
Jasmine Abena Colgan is an interdisciplinary + conceptual artist, educator and scholar who is based in Colorado. Her visual artworks vary from photographic printing processes such as Platinum & Palladium, Chrysotype, as well
as cyanotype on sea shells to Artists’ Books, however, she finds a way to mix multiple mediums to address social, civil and criminal contemporary issues in her work.
Jasmine integrates her cultural upbringing as a Woman of Colors, living in America as a bi-racial woman of Irish American-Ghanaian roots who never really fit in in the world until she developed the skin condition vitiligo. From vitiligo, she developed
Toug h Skin, which is an empowerment movement that encourages others to celebrate the skin they live in. From this, she created a skincare company that sources raw ingredients from Northern Ghana, by abena, implements two cultures into one jar of magic.
Abena’s modeling work has been featured in campaigns for Crocs, Starbucks, Verizon, Tinder, Furniture Row, and is best known for her skin representation in Call of Duty as Nila ‘Nova’ Brown.
Colgan earned her BFA degree from the University of Colorado Denver studying photography and later earned her MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder.