Pensacola Businesswoman Audra Carter Decides to Run for County Commissioner

Pensacola, FL, June 11, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Various communities and children in those communities are suffering and have been for decades. There is a gap between communities and the sweet taste of the good life, which is otherwise attainable. Audra Carter, a long time resident of Pensacola, FL for over 20 years, saw a dire need to bridge the gap that limit hundreds from taking a slice of the American promise of opportunity and access.

The lack of opportunity that the Northern Florida minority community faces cannot be easily pacified with a few thrown together programs. Bridging the gap requires heart, dedication, and passion that only a person like Audra Carter can bring to the table. With a Masters of Public Administration degree, Audra has learned how to lend her knowledge to her community and become a liaison between majority business owners and investors and aspiring entrepreneurs in minority communities also. Through her education, experience, and undying passion for fairness in all communities, Audra has risen as a leader in bringing forth diversity in various professional fields.

Audra Carter utilizes her Bridging the Gap (BTG) network for very important purposes. BTG was designed to assist, encourage, and educate anyone who is willing and desires the opportunity to grow in ways appropriate to their cultural origins. The focus of BTG was and is to impact community and business by focusing on two main goals. One, the community goal, which is to provide information on general education, personal development, and two, the business goal, which is to assist businesses with best practices, operations, contract procurement processes, marketing, and business management. Another goal of Bridging the Gap is to fine-tune its proprietary community-based methodology to allow participants to reach specific levels of opportunity based on character, integrity, and ability - not on race, creed, and color, social or economic status.

Much like many of her other ventures, Ms. Carter’s AC Advertising Agency was founded to help connect with mainstream businesses that want to market to minority consumers, but have no clue how to do so. Ms. Carter’s personal life experience in the community combined with her extensive education allows her to be both an amazing business woman while also holding on tightly to her integrity and drive to assist communities in her county and other communities in Pensacola.

Audra Carter, a mother of 2 beautiful daughters, understands her communities at large and the opportunities that are essential to their success. The truth is, programs, media, and advertising are merely conduits that are driven by someone who has his or her heart and soul vested in the people those programs seek to assist. Audra Carter wakes up every day ready to serve her communities. She has been praised, thanked, awarded, and showered with accolades including the Presidential Who's Who Among Business, BRACE Volunteer of the Year and Professional Achievers and Emerging Outstanding Business Women. Her commitment to her community and the people in it go far beyond awards and accolades, though. Ms. Carter’s commitment is derived from the promise of the pursuit of happiness that this country is founded on. Her commitment comes from the dedication to making sure that every person, minority or not, has the same opportunity to be successful in their professional fields and life.

Audra is also fueled by having to walk for years through fires, figuratively speaking, deliberately set by certain governmental agencies, businesses of the establishment, phony peer gatekeepers who are supposed to help, but instead they hinder or lockout, and by haters in general. The fires were often set with malice because Ms. Carter refused to go along with games and wrong deeds – to include settling for less or a token just because she’s a woman and/or an African-American. But Audra said, they won’t break my spirit – they won’t stop what God has promised for and to me – and I won’t give up.

Over the next decade, Audra Carter has committed to her vision of seeing her companies serve communities in Pensacola, Florida at large, and other communities through the United States and around the globe. She intends to accomplish this through public and private partnerships, global projects with multicultural and multi-countries reach – to include the United States, with Pensacola and Florida targets, authentic sponsorships, fundraisers – all with an aim to provide opportunities for long term employment, small business and entrepreneurial development and a life that the people in her communities can be proud of. Ms. Carter has also decided to run for an elected office to become the County Commissioner of District 1. She has a burning desire to help solve various issues that can be resolved or solved by the Commissioners doing the job that she or he was and is elected to do.