L.Ahzjah Simons is a 2022 CCMA Cooperative Service Award Recipient and known for her work in organizational leadership, management and communications for the past 20 years, in the areas of marketing, multimedia, in the co-op and wellness industry. She is Founder of Digico Global Business Solutions LLC/NCMG, currently working to guide and educate multi-sector cooperatives, bipoc and womxn-owned small businesses, and non-profits, into the digital age, offering eduction, tools, assessments, planning, and agency services in digital transformation, digital media, digital marketing, and digital inclusion as a practice.
Ahzjah currently serves as interim Co-Executive Director for the Georgia Cooperative Development Center and is also Founder, Conscious Living OmniMedia Group, & The Children’s Wellness Network. She currently serves on the Board of Georgia Organics and was the first black woman to be elected to the National Cooperative Grocers Board of Directors. She also served as their DEI committee’s Co-Chair to help usher in a more equitable representation of BIPOC within the retail co-op space at co-op, leadership, and NCG board levels. At the 2022 CCMA conference, Ahzjah was honored with a CCMA Cooperative Service Award by the Consumer Co-op Management association, for her innovative and transformational service in the cooperative industry and leading one of the largest retail food co-ops in the southeast.