Ama Yawson is a co-founder of loveessence.com, a romantic networking site for black women who are ready for love and men of all races who are ready to love them in return. Loveessence.com inspires its members to get to love’s essence by focusing on the kind and quality of romantic love they want in their lives, and encourages its members to be open to a potential mate who can fulfill their love vision regardless of that potential mate’s ethnicity, occupation or other demographic characteristics.

A former banking regulator, telecom investment banking analyst and movie business-manager, Ms. Yawson was inspired to create loveessence.com because of her own experiences in discovering romantic love. Ms. Yawson earned a BA from Harvard University, an MBA from the Wharton School and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Brooklyn , NY with her husband and son.