Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell, Esq., CPA, CCLC, is a LEADERSHIP CHAMPION! As the CEO of the Leading Through Living Community, Lynita manages a multi-faceted enterprise that includes an award winning media group, book and magazine publishing, television and radio production, public relations, and training. All of these components are focused to empower people to be Certified 3PA Leaders: people of purpose, passion, and power ready to take BOLD and decisive action!

She is also the founder and CEO of BOLD Favor Media Group which publishes the PassKey Choice 2016 “ATL’s Hottest Entertainment Magazine” BOLD Favor Magazine and producer of several local television and radio shows. With the assistance of its advertising and community partners, BOLD Favor established three libraries on the African continent - two in rural Kenya and one in Swaziland – through the African Library Project since 2016.

Based on her work and service professionally and in the community, Lynita has been honored with the 2017 Georgia Citizen Award by the Georgia Secretary of State, 2017 Yellow Rose Community Service Award presented by the Georgia Women’s Legislative Caucus, to be invited into the 2016 National Black Lawyers Top 100, serve as a delegate to the 2014 Art of Living Foundation's International Women's Conference in Bangalore, India, be recognized as a 2015 Successful Entrepreneur and 2014 Outstanding Counselor At Law by Who's Who in Black Atlanta, receive the 2012 President’s Call to Service Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation under the Obama Administration, and be a 2011 Black Enterprise Magazine Young & Bold Business Leader "BE Next 35".

Lynita's community work has been recognized with the following honors: in 2011, the My Sister's Keeper Foundation for Women awarded its Community Empowerment Award to the non-profit organization that Lynita co-founded in 2007, served as its first President, and currently serves a member of the Board of Directors - the Jewell Jackson McCabe Emerging Leaders Institute, Inc. (ELI); and in 2008, the National Association of Women Bar Associations awarded its Community Project of the Year award to the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys' Civil Pro Bono Wills Project that Lynita designed and implemented in 2007, and also served as its first chair.

Lynita currently serves as the National Chair of the Board of Directors of the Leadership Innovation Transformation (LIT) College Tour, Counsel for NurseHer, Inc., and is a member of the founding board of the Universal Womanhood Collective. She has served as President of the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Attorney-CPA's, President of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys Foundation, and President of the Stone Mountain-Lithonia Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. Lynita particularly credits the mentorship of the latter organization's national founder, Ms. Jewell Jackson McCabe, as a driving force in her career path. Lynita has also served in several political leadership positions, such as a two year appointment to the Douglas County Board of Elections & Registration and President of the Democratic Women's Council of Douglas County.

Lynita earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Florida A&M University School of Business & Industry, Juris Doctor degree from the Georgia State University College of Law, Certificate in International Comparative Law/Commercial Arbitration from Johannes Kepler Universitat of Linz, Austria, and is a Certified Christian Life Coach under the International Coaching Science Research Foundation. Lynita is licensed to practice law in Georgia, and is a CPA licensed in Florida (currently inactive).

Lynita is married to Rev. Brian K. Blackwell and they are the proud parents of one daughter.