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Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) is an American businesswoman. Burns is known for her tenure as the CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016. In this role, Burns was the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.
This list of famous African American women to know in 2024 includes singers, actors, athletes, entrepreneurs, politicians and more inspiring modern Black women.
In 2017, she became the first African-American woman to head The Economic Club of Chicago. [6] On December 26, 2020 it was announced she would become chair of Starbucks in 2021, thus becoming the first black woman to chair a S&P 500 company, [ 7 ] making her one of the highest profile corporate directors in the United States. [ 8 ]
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Good afternoon. Corporate America's 2020 rallying cries for racial equity and social justice have since turned into a bleating whimper. Netflix, Disney, and Warner Bros. Discovery are among the ...
She told Business Insider that she was also finding work itself more stressful, which came as a surprise to her being 10 years into her career in corporate America. "I was crying a lot," she said.
Sara Treleaven Blakely [1] (born February 27, 1971) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the founder of Spanx, an American intimate apparel company with pants and leggings, founded in Atlanta, Georgia. [2]
As a nice transition from Black History Month into Women's History Month, NASA named its D.C. headquarters after its first Black female engineer. Mary W. Jackson became NASA's first Black female ...