Hours after President Joe Biden stepped aside and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the top of the Democratic ticket, political advocacy group Win With Black Women organized a Zoom call to begin strategizing support for Harris.

The grassroots' call quickly took off.

“Forty-four thousand Black women attended all across [the] nation raised $1.5 million,” community organizer Nia Alvarez Mapp said.

With a growing list of high-profile endorsements, Harris is building momentum to become the first Black woman and first Asian American to secure a major political party’s presidential nomination.

During the three-hour call with Win With Black Women, Reps. Maxine Waters and Jasmine Crockett encouraged tens of thousands of listeners to tap into their networks in support of Harris.

“It seems as though many are ready and willing to support the vice president in her bid to become the presidential nominee in the next few weeks,” Dr. Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University, told NY1.

For some local Black women voters, there is both strong enthusiasm for Harris and concern over how she will be perceived.

“The racism, sexism, that’s going to come to this not only just for Kamala but for regular Black women, and all across the United States might be a little bit more heightened up,” Mapp said.

“I was scared at first. I think that just being a Black woman, you’re naturally kind of skeptical of something like this,” local voter Mariya Moseley told NY1.

Moseley said she now feels more optimistic after watching the Harris campaign raise tens of millions of dollars in 24 hours.

“I’m hopeful. I think that Gen Z can help us. I’m positive and even about just the endorsements that are coming in. I think the energy is shifting,” she said.

Greer said she believes Harris can consolidate support by pointing out former President Donald Trump’s track record and reminding voters of her own.

“I think it has been helpful that the vice president has been out across the country, talking about abortion and reproductive justice, something that is an issue an economic issue, that is of great importance to a lot of families, and not just women. And so that issue is a winning issue for Democrats,” Greer said.