Meet Stacey Ferguson, (aka Justice Fergie), the founder of Blogalicious, a boutique convention aimed at bringing a little color and flavor to the mostly vanilla world of blog conventions. Gatherings such as these are good business for companies looking to expand their brand with their target audience, using specialty blogs as a conduit. As a seasoned blogger, Fergie attended some of the biggest blog conventions around but noticed a big part of the diversity conversation muted. Bloggers of color weren’t populating these events in wide proportions so she took what she learned and capitalized that knowledge to create her own convention, and that’s how Blogalicious was born. That was five years ago.

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