As 600,000 Black Women Lose Jobs, Colorado Springs Entrepreneur Asks the Questions AI Policy Won't

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - EntSun -- Michelle Harris invites the community to a free AI Confidence Conversation on June 27 at Library 21c, built around the questions national AI policy has left unanswered.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An estimated 600,000 Black women were pushed out of the workforce in 2025, according to Brookings and Bureau of Labor Statistics data, many of them experienced, college-educated professionals displaced by federal layoffs and shifting hiring priorities. Colorado Springs entrepreneur Michelle Harris says the same AI tools reshaping the job market can also help redirect those skills — but the conversation has to start somewhere.

On Saturday, June 27, Harris is hosting AI Confidence: A Conversation, a free community event at Library 21c built around questions including:

1. If AI is shaping every major industry, what does it mean that entire communities were never invited into that conversation?

2. What is the cost of AI anxiety — and who is paying it most?

3. What does economic dignity look like when a Black woman becomes the AI expert in her own community?

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4. If the policy will not close the confidence gap — who will?

"These are skilled, experienced women," said Harris, founder of Bookshelf AI Publishing Solutions LLC and creator of the BLAQ Framework™. "What they need isn't another program telling them to start over. They need a space to ask these questions out loud — and the confidence to use AI to write their own next chapter."

Event Details

AI Confidence: A Conversation

Saturday, June 27, 2026, 10:30–11:30 AM

Library 21c, 1175 Chapel Hills Dr, Colorado Springs, CO

Free — registration: eventbrite.com/e/1985314514155

About Michelle Harris

Michelle Harris is the Founder and CEO of Bookshelf AI Publishing Solutions LLC, a Colorado Springs-based AI literacy and confidence company. A Certified AI Prompt Engineer, she helps women 45 and older build AI literacy, adoption, and confidence through the BLAQ Framework™.

Media Contact

Michelle Harris, Bookshelf AI Publishing Solutions LLC

michelleharris@bookshelfaipublishing.com

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