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"I was pleased to join the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey for the State of Black New Jersey 2020 Summit today. There is no path to the American Dream that doesn't include education and employment, and not just employment where you’re working for someone else, but the opportunity to build a business and hire employees of your own. But the government, especially in New Jersey, always gets in the way. We need to ease permitting and cut red tape everywhere so we can create opportunities everywhere. We must break down barriers to entrepreneurship instead of building them up. We must prioritize inclusion and opportunity in African American business communities so that qualified African American businesses aren't excluded. Until we do that, and become a state that embraces business instead of chasing it away, African American owned businesses will continue to be left behind. I look forward to working together so that, at a future "State of Black New Jersey Summit", we can sit in the audience and listen to new leaders in the African American business community talk about their successes and the vision for an even brighter and more economically inclusive tomorrow."
- NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt
- NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt
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TIMELINE- day 1
9:00 A.M. - 9:10 A.M. Opening Remarks
Stan Prater, External Affairs Consultant, First Energy, AACCNJ Chairman of the Board
John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM, Founder, President CEO, AACCNJ, Former Chairman, NBCC
9:10 A.M. - 10:20 A.M. Panel 1
Topic: Opportunities/Needs
Moderator: Daria S. Torres, Managing Partner, Walls Torres Group LLC
Panelists: Manuel M. DaSilva, Chief Executive Officer, New Jersey School Development Authority (SDA)
Zenobia L. Fields, Senior Policy & Program Advisor, New Jersey Dept. of Transportation (DOT)
Dr. Kimberly K. Holmes, Assistant Commissioner, NJ Department of Community Affairs (DCA)
Lamont Repollet, Ed.D., Commissioner of Education, NJ, President, Kean University
Leotis Sanders, Vice President, Office of Civil Rights & Diversity Programs, New Jersey Transit (NJT)
Keith D. Wright, Sr., Ph.D., Program Mgr. of Capacity Building, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ)
10:25 A.M. - 10:35 A.M. Remarks
Rev. Derrick Green, Senior Advisor to The Honorable Phil Murphy, Governor State of NJ
10:35 A.M. - 10:45 A.M. Remarks
Topic: Discrimination in Insurance Premiums
Eric Poe, Esq., CPA, COO, CURE Insurance
10:50 A.M. - 11:55 A.M. Panel 2
Topic – Public Sector Opportunities/Legislative Panel
Moderator: Lance Lopez, Former President, PBA Local 105, NJ
Panelists: Estina Baker, Staff Senior Campaign Lead for NJ, National CWA
Reverend Steffie Bartley, Northeast Regional Director, National Action Network
The Honorable Anthony M. Bucco, Senator, State of NJ
The Honorable Bette Lou DeCroce – Assemblywoman, State of NJ
The Honorable Antwan McClellan, Assemblyman, State of NJ
The Honorable Joe Pennacchio, Senator, State of NJ
12:05 P.M. - 12:30 P.M. Conference Speaker
Don Peebles, CEO, Peebles Corporation
12:35 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. Closing Remarks
John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM
Stan Prater, External Affairs Consultant, First Energy, AACCNJ Chairman of the Board
John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM, Founder, President CEO, AACCNJ, Former Chairman, NBCC
9:10 A.M. - 10:20 A.M. Panel 1
Topic: Opportunities/Needs
Moderator: Daria S. Torres, Managing Partner, Walls Torres Group LLC
Panelists: Manuel M. DaSilva, Chief Executive Officer, New Jersey School Development Authority (SDA)
Zenobia L. Fields, Senior Policy & Program Advisor, New Jersey Dept. of Transportation (DOT)
Dr. Kimberly K. Holmes, Assistant Commissioner, NJ Department of Community Affairs (DCA)
Lamont Repollet, Ed.D., Commissioner of Education, NJ, President, Kean University
Leotis Sanders, Vice President, Office of Civil Rights & Diversity Programs, New Jersey Transit (NJT)
Keith D. Wright, Sr., Ph.D., Program Mgr. of Capacity Building, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ)
10:25 A.M. - 10:35 A.M. Remarks
Rev. Derrick Green, Senior Advisor to The Honorable Phil Murphy, Governor State of NJ
10:35 A.M. - 10:45 A.M. Remarks
Topic: Discrimination in Insurance Premiums
Eric Poe, Esq., CPA, COO, CURE Insurance
10:50 A.M. - 11:55 A.M. Panel 2
Topic – Public Sector Opportunities/Legislative Panel
Moderator: Lance Lopez, Former President, PBA Local 105, NJ
Panelists: Estina Baker, Staff Senior Campaign Lead for NJ, National CWA
Reverend Steffie Bartley, Northeast Regional Director, National Action Network
The Honorable Anthony M. Bucco, Senator, State of NJ
The Honorable Bette Lou DeCroce – Assemblywoman, State of NJ
The Honorable Antwan McClellan, Assemblyman, State of NJ
The Honorable Joe Pennacchio, Senator, State of NJ
12:05 P.M. - 12:30 P.M. Conference Speaker
Don Peebles, CEO, Peebles Corporation
12:35 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. Closing Remarks
John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM
timeline- day 2
9:00 A.M. - 9:10 A.M. Opening Remarks
John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM, Founder, President CEO, AACCNJ, Former Chairman, NBCC
Ralph Thomas,CPA (DC), CGMA, CEO and Executive Director, NJ Society of CPA’s (NJCPA)
9:15 A.M. - 10:10 A.M. Panel 1
Topic: Mission/Priorities
Moderator: Tracy M. Thompson, Esq.
Panelists: Bernel Hall, President & CEO, Invest Newark
Taneshia Nash Laird, President & CEO, Newark Symphony Hall
Reverend John Taylor, Pastor, Friendship Baptist Church, Trenton, NJ
10:30 A.M. - 11:35 A.M. Panel 2
Topic: Public/Private Sector Opportunities
Moderator: John Kahn, Associate, Duane Morris
Panelists: Dale G. Caldwell, Ed.D., Professor & Executive Director, Rothman Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Silberman College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University
DeAnna Minus-Vincent, Vice President, Social Impact & Community Investment, RWJBarnabas Health
Vivian Cox Fraser, President & CEO, Urban League of Essex County
Will Smith, Director of Procurement, South Jersey Industries
Tim Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer, NJ Economic Development Authority (NJEDA)
12:25 P.M. - 12:40 P.M. Keynote Speaker
Bishop David G. Evans, Senior Pastor, Bethany Baptist Church, Lindenwold, NJ
1:00 P.M. - 1:55 P.M. Panel 3
Topic: Impact on Main Street
Moderator: Vaughn L. McKoy, JD, MBA, Partner, Inglesino, Webster, Wyciskala & Taylor, LLC
Panelists: Racheal Fosu, President, The Galileo PreSchools, Busy Place Early Learning Center, KIDFIN
Barri Gibson, Owner, Lead Stylist, Ruby Red Roots Hair Salon
Corrine Bradley-Powers, Owner, Corrine’s Place
Bridgette Nzali, President, African & American Braiding
Vonda McPhearson, Owner, Vonda’s Kitchen
Donnell Williams, Owner of Destiny Realty, Morristown, New Jersey, President, National Association of Real Estate Brokers (N.A.R.E.B.)
2:15 P.M. - 3:15 P.M. Panel 4
Topic: Legislative Panel
Moderator: John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM
Panelists: The Honorable Ras Baraka, Mayor, Newark, NJ
The Honorable Jamel Holley, Assemblyman, State of NJ
The Honorable Verlinda Reynolds-Jackson, Assemblywoman, State of NJ
The Honorable Ronald Rice, Senator, State of NJ
The Honorable Marty Small, Sr., Mayor of Atlantic City, NJ
Collin Smith, Constituent Services Coordinator for the Honorable Troy Singleton, Senator, State of NJ
3:15 P.M. - 3:20 P.M. Closing Remarks
John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM
John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM, Founder, President CEO, AACCNJ, Former Chairman, NBCC
Ralph Thomas,CPA (DC), CGMA, CEO and Executive Director, NJ Society of CPA’s (NJCPA)
9:15 A.M. - 10:10 A.M. Panel 1
Topic: Mission/Priorities
Moderator: Tracy M. Thompson, Esq.
Panelists: Bernel Hall, President & CEO, Invest Newark
Taneshia Nash Laird, President & CEO, Newark Symphony Hall
Reverend John Taylor, Pastor, Friendship Baptist Church, Trenton, NJ
10:30 A.M. - 11:35 A.M. Panel 2
Topic: Public/Private Sector Opportunities
Moderator: John Kahn, Associate, Duane Morris
Panelists: Dale G. Caldwell, Ed.D., Professor & Executive Director, Rothman Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Silberman College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University
DeAnna Minus-Vincent, Vice President, Social Impact & Community Investment, RWJBarnabas Health
Vivian Cox Fraser, President & CEO, Urban League of Essex County
Will Smith, Director of Procurement, South Jersey Industries
Tim Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer, NJ Economic Development Authority (NJEDA)
12:25 P.M. - 12:40 P.M. Keynote Speaker
Bishop David G. Evans, Senior Pastor, Bethany Baptist Church, Lindenwold, NJ
1:00 P.M. - 1:55 P.M. Panel 3
Topic: Impact on Main Street
Moderator: Vaughn L. McKoy, JD, MBA, Partner, Inglesino, Webster, Wyciskala & Taylor, LLC
Panelists: Racheal Fosu, President, The Galileo PreSchools, Busy Place Early Learning Center, KIDFIN
Barri Gibson, Owner, Lead Stylist, Ruby Red Roots Hair Salon
Corrine Bradley-Powers, Owner, Corrine’s Place
Bridgette Nzali, President, African & American Braiding
Vonda McPhearson, Owner, Vonda’s Kitchen
Donnell Williams, Owner of Destiny Realty, Morristown, New Jersey, President, National Association of Real Estate Brokers (N.A.R.E.B.)
2:15 P.M. - 3:15 P.M. Panel 4
Topic: Legislative Panel
Moderator: John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM
Panelists: The Honorable Ras Baraka, Mayor, Newark, NJ
The Honorable Jamel Holley, Assemblyman, State of NJ
The Honorable Verlinda Reynolds-Jackson, Assemblywoman, State of NJ
The Honorable Ronald Rice, Senator, State of NJ
The Honorable Marty Small, Sr., Mayor of Atlantic City, NJ
Collin Smith, Constituent Services Coordinator for the Honorable Troy Singleton, Senator, State of NJ
3:15 P.M. - 3:20 P.M. Closing Remarks
John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM
ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
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remarks by:
John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM
Founder, Pres. & CEO African American Chamber of Commerce of NJ Day 1 & 2 Bio |
About our moderators
ABOUT OUR Panelists - Day 1
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Keith D. Wright, Sr., Ph.D. Program Mgr. of Capacity Building, Office of
Diversity & Inclusion, Port Authority of NY & NJ Panel 1 Bio |
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ABOUT OUR PANELISTS - DAY 2
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DeAnna Minus-Vincent, MPA
Corporate Vice President Social Impact & Community Investment RWJBarnabas Health Panel 2 Bio |
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THE STATE OF BLACK NJ STATISTICS & INFORMATION
state of black nj 2020 economic virtual summit program book
Reforming policing in america 2020 |
THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS: EVIDENCE OF EARLY-STAGE LOSSES FROM THE APRIL 2020 CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY |
Race & ethnicity in nj |
THE MCKINSEY REPORT: COVID-19: Investing in black lives and livelihoods |
Harmon challenges public, private sectors: Are you ready to make A difference in black business community? |
Nielsen report 2019: IT’S IN THE BAG: BLACK CONSUMERS’ PATH TO PURCHASE |
