Government & Public Affairs Executive | Supplier Diversity Strategist | Speaker
A little over a week ago, I learned that I have been selected as a 2019 Women Who Mean Business by the HBJ. It is such an honor to be among this year’s women. Congratulations to all the Women Who Mean Business! Please join me in celebrating on October 3.
In celebration of National Women’s History Month, She Said. She Led. She Is. will honor extraordinary women making history in the procurement and supplier diversity sector at their annual Extraordinary Women Making History Awards Reception.
I was honored to judge The Houston Business Journal’s 40 under 40 Class of 2019. The Class of 2019 includes several founders, CEOs and other leaders of both for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations and at least one author. Read the article and meet the honorees at HBJ’s site.
https://www.chron.com/business/bizfeed/article/AT-T-to-hire-500-tech-workers-from-Houston-job-13541004.php
AT&T is looking to fill 500 tech jobs at the Turnaround Houston Readiness Fair being held Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The job fair, held in the Moody Community Center at 3725 Fulton St., is part of a city initiative to address barriers to employment. Turnaround Houston offers access to job training, resume writing, tattoo removal, social service agencies, educational institutions, counseling and intervention to help hard-to-employ Houstonians.
The job fair is an opportunity to learn how the City of Houston is partnering with AT&T to bring well-paying tech jobs to Houstonians. Interview opportunities will be available in English and Spanish and City Councilwoman Karla Cisneros, Office of Business Opportunity Director Carlecia D. Wright, and representatives of Turnaround Houston partners and clients are scheduled to attend.
Recent article by Derek T. Dingle on Black Enterprise:
At a gathering of the nation’s leading black executives and entrepreneurs, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner characterized Carlecia Wright as a “financial maverick.”…
Read More at Black Enterprise.com
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