The Brains behind the Beauty........... LaShawnna Stanley, a teenage mom at
the age of 15 was determined not to become a statistic. Fresh out of high
school she started working an entry level position for a stock brokerage
firm. After 10 years in corporate America she decided to become an
entrepreneur, and opened her own clothing boutique. Originally from Kansas
City, Missouri, LaShawnna Stanley decided to leave the safe confines of her
hometown and gamble on making it big in a larger market.
She has pretty much monopolized the industry and along the way
worked diligently to clean up the negative image of women in music videos.
Stanley has built a mini empire of models and talent by defying
expectations because her models dimensions do not conform to the physical
stereotypes of the mainstream fashion industry.
ABOUT THE AGENCY
Ethnicity Model Management is a model management company representing male and female models between the ages of 17-25, with exotic ethnic looks. However we receive occasional request for all types of Ethnic people. Women, men, children and grandparents
for television commercials, print advertisement, movies and music videos.
ETHNICITY specializes in ethnic models of all nationalities for music
videos, films, commercials, urban clothing lines and an array of other
marketing campaigns that fill a significant void in the industry, thereby,
creating an outlet for young minority women.
The cultural diversity of our models ethnic background plants root in Haiti,
Jamaica, Panama, Brazil, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic. This is
one of the strong points of the company because we offer a "melting pot"
fusing different nationalities, ethnicities, and cultures providing the
world an exotic flavor that can't be manufactured.
Changing Perceptions
Although these models have faces and bodies to die for, there's more that
lies beneath the surface. These women are beauties with brains. They are
strong, educated, and ambitious women chasing big dreams in all areas of
their lives.
LaShawnna is out to kill the stereotypes on girls in music videos being
labeled as "video hoes", strippers or gold diggers. The Models of Ethnicity
do not have to take their clothes off or sleep with the directors or the
artist to get the jobs. Their beauty and talent, coupled with the ambition,
ethical conscience, and business savvy of the CEO/ Founder LaShawnna Stanley
is enough to get the deed done.
Music videos are extracurricular for most ETHNICITY models. For example
Angela Phyall is a NASD Series 7 & 63 licensed investment Specialist with an
I.Q. of 137 on a scale ranging 0-140, or Melyssa Ford who was a host for BET
and is a columnist for Smooth Magazine, or Kia Samuels who is not only
tri-lingual but holds down a nine-to-five as an AT&T consumer rep, holds a
corporal rank for the Army Reserve, and just returned from serving 13 months
in Iraq as a military police all while attending school at Nova University
where she intends to switch majors from Pharmacology to International
Diplomacy. Not your typical video girls by any stretch of the imagination.