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Every Gina Needs a Pam

The BFF Who Sees You For WHO You Are and Not WHAT You Are

ASUS BUTTERFLY

4 min readMay 9, 2026

Press enter or click to view image in full size Every Gina needs a Pam to be on the same foot along all paths of life. | Photo by Gustavo Fring

Before there were Joan Carol Clayton and Maya Wilkes, and before there were Regina Greer and LaVita Alize Jenkins, there were Gina Waters and Pam James.

Gina and Pam were examples of well-rounded Black women, showing how to be a corporate woman with a progressive career while still being that same round-the-way girl you grew up being. They showed us how to seamlessly go from a well-tailored skirt suit to a fly crop top and high-waist jeans. They rocked the bob and the pin-curl ponytail from the office to the club flawlessly.…