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Rising To The Top: Founder, CEO on Supporting All WOC To Succeed

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After two years she transferred to the University of Florida, graduating in 1999 with degrees in political science and business, and the intention of going to law school. She moved home to help out her mother for one year after her grandfather died, working at a law firm.

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Getting to Know Our Consultants: Christy Gilmour

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on Capitol Hill, and working for a law firm in their lobbying group. I decided to return home to Chicago, where I worked for a city/county health initiative promoting community health, worked with the YMCA Metro Chicago, where I oversaw strategic planning, and then worked in patient and orthopedic advocacy for a specialty medical association.

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

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All of our children are well fed, and everyone has dental, medical, and mental healthcare. Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. 11 A study by the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern Law School in Evanston, IL, found that ShotSpotter has a false alarm rate of 89 percent.

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All You Need: 7 Key Reasons To Attend Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert & Conference

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of law degrees, 47.5% of medical degrees, 38% of MBAs and account for 47% of the U.S. Yet very few women hold the highest positions of leadership in the academic, legal, corporate or political spheres.” politics, it’s that men are significantly overrepresented in U.S. politics. labor force.

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Get to Know Our New Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sherry Rout!

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Sherry has been a presenter at national and state conferences on a wide range of government relations topics, a guest lecturer on effective advocacy at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, and spent many years as a guest lecturer on animal law and lobbying at the University of Tennessee’s Schools of Law and Veterinary Medicine in Knoxville, TN.

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Get to Know Our New Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sherry Rout!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Sherry has been a presenter at national and state conferences on a wide range of government relations topics, a guest lecturer on effective advocacy at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, and spent many years as a guest lecturer on animal law and lobbying at the University of Tennessee’s Schools of Law and Veterinary Medicine in Knoxville, TN.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability. 11 Lindblom wrote this more than 30 years before the US Supreme Court’s decision of Citizens United , which removed many restrictions on corporate political spending.