As founder and CEO of biotech firm SiNON Nano Sciences, Afreen Allam aims to revolutionize treatment for neurological conditions By Anna Rappel [caption id="attachment_13551" align="alignleft" width="450"] Courtesy of Durham Magazine[/caption] When Afreen Allam and her sisters were kids, they loved using their imaginations to concoct potions in the...
Fidelity Investments’ Pamela Everhart is on a mission to create economic mobility for all Pamela Everhart, a lawyer, never intended to work in finance. But when an attorney at Fidelity Investments reached out to recruit her, she agreed to meet. She loves connecting with people, after...
Next: Carolina Acosta took a trip to Latin America that changed the course of her life. “It’s where I first reconnected with my Latina roots, being half Colombian and half Dominican,” the 29-year-old New Yorker says. “I connected to the countries that I was visiting, particularly Colombia where...
As star employees fly the coop, managers have an opportunity to change course for the better By Katie Morell It was a little more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic—May 2021, to be exact—when then–Texas A&M associate professor of management Anthony Klotz coined the term “the great...
Intentionality Yields Results After starting out in marketing for financial services companies, Lourdes Diaz landed a role in supplier diversity. When she saw how her work helped women- and minority-owned businesses grow, she says, “it was an epiphany for me.” Today, Diaz is still passionate about creating diverse...
For as long as he can remember, Ryan Parker, VP of DEI at information technology company CGI, has been fighting for greater representation By Carlett Spike As a Black man and native of Huntsville, Alabama, Ryan Parker has been an advocate for diversity his entire life—he didn’t have...