Celebrating Monticello’s African American Past & Present: E-Commerce Strategist & Marketing Innovator Tomara Watkins

Frequita Barrington Contributor Monticello native Tomara Watkins grew up along the Florida-Georgia line in Jefferson County, surrounded by generations of women whose strength, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit shaped her life. Raised in a family where innovation was rooted in community and legacy, Tomara learned early what it meant to build something. The daughter of Barbara Watkins, and the granddaughter of Nellie Mae Mitchell and Rachel Watkins, Tomara spent her childhood watching the w