My GRCC Story: Phalesha Kyes worked to be successful, and now empowers other BIPOC, female businesses
June 29, 2023, GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- It’s an hour before Book.ish, a book fair for adults at the Center for Community Transformation in Grand Rapids, and Phalesha Kyes is on the phone.
“We’re having to make a little pivot,” she says. “But, yeah, it’s going well. We are getting it done.”
Those last five words could be on the business card for her eponymous company, By Phalesha Events. No matter the event she’s planning, she brings a getting-it-done attitude to the job.