Flossmoor Resident Dominica McBride and her organization, BECOME, will host a book signing March 7 for their book, “Becoming Change Makers: The Exquisite Path to Leadership for Women of Color,” at the Beyond the Book bookstore, 18063 Dixie Highway, from noon to 2 p.m. 

The event will also double as a Women’s History Month celebration, with their book highlighting local women of color leaders in Chicago’s South Suburbs and their journeys and struggles they have overcome to become the leaders they are today. 

The event will also be co-sponsored through McBride’s other organization Becoming with Dr. Dominica. 

Members of BECOME will be in attendance. McBride hopes several leaders mentioned in the book will also be in attendance. 

“We’re just going to be doing some connection (and) sharing stories,” McBride said. “We’re also going to be doing a very brief book talk, fireside chat-type of discussion around the book.” 

The book was originally published in 2023. In the 2025 edition, McBride added questions that could be asked in a book club setting and she updated the prologue. 

The book focuses on change makers and the path to effective transformative change within leadership, McBride said.  

One of the questions the book wants readers to think about is how one makes real change in their community and what kind of leadership is needed for it. 

“It’s also basically a guide in our leadership development,” McBride said. “The kind of leadership we need now, like desperately need now, especially with what’s happening in our country and in the world.” 

The creation of the book came about during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the BECOME team’s plans for next moves to stay active.  

McBride said they looked back at their work and lessons they have learned, and found there were powerful lessons around the power of women of color leadership and what was needed to continue to develop authentic and transformative leaders. 

“In order to get that kind of leadership, there are certain practices that we need to do because we’ve been trained in a certain way,” McBride said. “We need to unlearn some really harmful patterns … and step into more nourishing, restorative, and yet collective, powerful patterns and ways of leading.” 

McBride also provides a text program through her Becoming with Dr. Dominica organization, open to everyone. It’s a weekly consisting of affirmations and uplifting messages for and people who wish to be more involved with her organization.

People can RSVP for the event through Eventbrite.