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Black Enterprise Holds Symposium on America’s Public Education Challenges
Black Enterprise, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, presented “Today’s Business Crisis: Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce”. The symposium and featured dinner was part of the Black Enterprise signature event, Women of Power, where more than a thousand leading African American women from across the nation met to rejuvenate and discuss their business, career, life and family challenges and solutions.
“This was the perfect venue,” says Sonia Alleyne, Black Enterprise Multimedia Editorial Director, Co-Editorial Director, Women of Power Summit. “We’re on the cutting edge and forefront for African Americans to meet today’s challenges and we must guarantee the next generation of powerful women is prepared academically for success.”
The Gates Foundation was a sponsor of the event, which was created by Black Enterprise to cultivate a conversation between top leaders in business, philanthropy and education about the critical challenges facing American education. The symposium analyzed and illustrated the role business leaders can play in education reform in Florida and in public schools across the nation. “By increasing the quality of education, we increase the quality of our workforce,” says Heather Hiles, Founder & CEO, Pathbrite, Inc.
Moderator: Sonia Alleyne, Black Enterprise Multimedia Editorial Dir./Co-Editorial Dir., Women of Power Summit
Speakers Included:
Tracye H. Brown, Director of Communications & Project Manager, Empowering Effective Teaching, Hillsborough County Public Schools/Tampa, Florida
Felecia Cummings Smith, Associate Commissioner of Education, State of Kentucky
Heather Hiles, Founder & CEO, Pathbrite, Inc.
