Her Story
About Felicia
Felicia L. Vereen is a business professional, entrepreneur, community advocate, and woman who believes that purpose is not simply something you discover—it is something you live.
With more than 20 years of experience in finance, business operations, financial analysis, and organizational strategy, Felicia has built a career around helping organizations understand the numbers behind their decisions and turn those numbers into meaningful action. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Norfolk State University and an MBA from Averett University. Her professional experience spans over 25 years working for Fortune 500 companies such as Phillip Morris USA, MeadWestVaco and Gulfstream Aerospace where she served in financial and business analyst roles, as well as her current accounting role with Benedictine Military School.
Felicia is also the founder of Windsong Financial Solutions LLC, where she brings her financial knowledge and business experience together to provide bookkeeping, financial support, and campaign finance services.
But numbers are only one part of Felicia's story. Her passion for service and community led her to co-found Savannah Black Women Win, an organization committed to educating, advocating, engaging, and creating meaningful impact in the community. Through civic education, voter engagement, community service, candidate forums, and programs designed to empower women, Felicia works to ensure that women understand the power of their voices and their ability to create change.
At the heart of everything she does is family, faith, service, and purpose. Felicia is a proud mother who understands that success is about far more than titles, degrees, or accomplishments. It is about the people you help, the doors you open, the lives you touch, and the legacy you leave behind.
Her personal philosophy is simple: you do not have to become someone else to make an impact. You simply have to have the courage to walk fully in who you were created to be.
Today, whether she is working with numbers, building a business, advocating for her community, encouraging another woman, or simply enjoying life with the people she loves, Felicia is doing exactly that—
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Felicia
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to watching my single mother who worked three jobs to provide for me and never quit, even when tired. She made sure I had family around me and wouldn't let me dwell on failures but taught me to pick myself back up. This built my drive to always strive to do my best and be a trustworthy person who does what they say.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I ever received was to find what you love and make a career out of it. I didn’t listen. I was good with numbers and chose accounting and finance because the money was good.
Years later, I realize my real passion is people—using my voice to inspire, advocate, and help others. My advice: Choose a career that fits who you are, not just what pays well.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Make sure accounting and finance is something you really want to do, not just something you choose because the money can be good. It’s definitely not all glitz and glam. 😂
While you’re studying, learn as much as you can and understand what you’re learning. This is not a field where you can fake your way through it. When you get into that room, people will know whether you understand the numbers or not.
Learn it. Understand it. Then trust what you know.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Challenges include that finance is an ever-changing world with shifting reporting and how people view finances, plus many people aren't honest. Opportunities are that if you prove yourself you can climb the ladder to CFO or even president of corporations, go out on your own to create your own business, and accounting serves as a springboard to many other jobs like analyst or campaign finance.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Family is everything to me. Honesty, being driven, standing by what I believe in, loving God as a Christian, hard work, and helping people up without looking down on them are key. I believe in doing what I say so people never doubt me, and I'd rather do too much for others than too little.
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