Tuesday, February 18, 2014

CEO Wanda Alexander: Self-empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and Life

Time: Thu, February 20, 6pm – 7pm
Location: 2407 Marie Mount Hall

Interested in innovation? In starting your own company or non-profit? In taking ownership of your life?  In how to support U.S. government agencies such as HUD? Come have supper and conversation with Wanda Alexander this Thursday!
(And if you need an event, you can report on this one for credit.)

Wanda Alexandre, a UMD alumna, is the President and CEO of her own company, Horizon Consulting Inc., a minority and woman-owned small business that supports the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and other organizations (including banks). She also creates scholarships for minority women, teaches investment and entrepreneurship to youth, and mentors young people before and after college. She has been named UMD’s 2013 Distinguished Alumna for Undergraduate Studies; a Loudon County 2012 Innovator of the Year; the Women Business Champion of the Year 2007, and one of the Washington Business Journal’s Outstanding Minority Business Leaders. She has also been inducted into the Smart CEO BRAVA Award Hall of Fame.

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