Entrepreneurship and Black Economics
Wed, Oct 19
|Online Event
Entrepreneurship and collective economics are key to building strong, self-sustaining communities. For ideas, inspiration, and strategies, join our panel discussion on Black entrepreneurship, leveling up your business, and the concept of cooperative economics.
Time & Location
Oct 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:45 PM EDT
Online Event
About the Event
Laura Bacon, the founder of The 3rd, is a lifelong community organizer, educator, and activist. She grew up in Columbia, MD and returned there to teach high school languages and Alternative Education. She also served as the Resource Teacher for World Languages and a Mentor Teacher for the Board of Education. Her community leadership in Howard County has earned her recognition as Howard County’s World Language Teacher of the Year in 2016. Through teaching, she saw firsthand how community and support structures for women of color could be determining factors in changing trajectories in a dominant culture where destinies are often fixed.. Throughout her life and career, she has actively worked to combat inequity where she saw it. After 15 years of teaching, she decided she wanted to build an organization that filled a critical need in her local community: The 3rd. She also consults and coaches on Vision and…