Genma Stringer Holmes is a highly-recognized, award-winning Serial Entrepreneur, Media Influencer, and Editor-in-Chief. She is the owner of Holmes Pest Control, Executive Producer and host of Living Your Best Life Radio, and the Editor at GSH Media and Consulting.

With a heart for nonprofits and civic organizations, combined with ever growing communications skills, Genma has won numerous awards from the International Association of Business Communicators, for projects as diverse as editorial work for print publications, digital communications, online branding, and social media management.

Genma is the creator and manager behind many social media campaigns for several prestigious organizations such as The Ohio State University; MD Anderson Cancer Center; University of Houston; Intercultural Cancer Council; the University of Tennessee at Memphis; Meharry Medical College; The Links, Incorporated; Black Ownership Matters; Rotary International; and the National Day of the American Cowboy, to name a few.

Genma has also been recognized for her various philanthropic endeavors. In 2015, Genma was honored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals as a Difference Maker Honoree on National Philanthropy Day for her work with military families. In 2017, she was a Nashville Business Journal Women of Influence Honoree, and she was chosen as the Brentwood Woman’s Club Member of the Year. In 2018, she was named one of The 25 Most Influential Black Women in America by The Network Business Journal in New York, and she received the President’s Choice Award from the Brentwood-Franklin Women’s Service Club for her work with the General Federation of Women’s Club of Washington, D.C.

The mother of a Marine, Genma has received numerous accolades for her advocacy work for military families and the veteran community. She is the founding organizer of the Military Fund at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. She has helped raise over $600K for military families during her annual Christmas #livingtogivenow social media campaign, and with her fundraisers that benefit veteran service organizations. For several years, Genma has proudly served in the Rotary Club of Nashville, the third largest Rotary Club in the world. She helped spearhead the club's annual Veteran’s Day Program and helped secure notable speakers who made the Veteran's Day program one of the club’s most attended events through 2019. In 2020, she became the publisher and founder of the award winning Rotary's District 6760 Magazine. In 2021, she received Rotarian of the Year for her award winning communications implemented during COVID. In 2022, she received awards of Excellence and Merit from IABC for her work in communications that included her work with Rotary International, The Ohio State University, Black Ownership Matters, and Cerese D Magazine in Atlanta. She was the Inaugural Hall of Fame Inductee for IABC Nashville.

Also in 2022, she received the Inaugural Woman of Impact Award from the National Pest Management Association for helping shatter glass ceilings in the male dominated pest control industry. One of her major contributions to the industry was being the founder of Minorities in Pest Management (MPM) in 2006. MPM helped open doors for minorities who work in the pest control field. During the height of the pandemic, she became a board member for Black Ownership Matters (BOM), an organization that mentors pest control operators and individuals wanting to become pest management professionals who are seeking to become part of the 20 billion dollar industry. She advises Black owned companies on how to navigate contracts and accessresources to help diversify their companies to keep their family owned businesses in the family.

For ten years, Genma was heard in December on the Tom Joyner Morning Show where she talked passionately about serving nonprofits locally, nationally, and internationally as Ms. Santa, a role she has loved being for over 20 years. She was featured on News Channel 5's Urban Outlook with the April Eaton annual holiday segment for eight seasons. In the Nashville market, she can be heard each weekend on the award winning program Living Your Best Life Radio on WENO 760 The Gospel. Genma has been featured in numerous publications like The New York Times, Pest Control Technology, Pest Management Magazine, Nashville Business Journal, The Tennessean, Style Blueprint, Essence, Black Enterprise, The Network Journal, Speakers Magazine, Family Business Magazine, Worthwhile Magazine, First Woman, and Huffington Post. Genma is a contributing writer to newspapers and publications throughout the U.S. In 2023, she will debut three books, the first one is titled African Americans Entrepreneurs Who Made Nashville the 'It City.'