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ICABA® is the global brand of ICABA® Media Holdings, LLC, a South Florida based affinity marketing and media company dedicated to identifying and connecting accomplished black professionals and entrepreneurs. Activating productive and beneficial relationships among black professionals and entrepreneurs worldwide is ICABA’s ultimate goal.

ICABA® World.com is part of ICABA’s best-in-class affinity marketing vehicle available to companies desiring a profitable relationship with affluent black consumers.  ICABA also publishes full-color, coffee table quality directories profiling the world’s most accomplished blacks and produces signature events that brings them to together to network and develop relationships.

NABWIC Talks with Ann McNeill, Nabwic Founder and owner of MCO CONSTRUCTION, and Founder of International Mastermind Association.  Today's show is focused on the members and the Organagiztion.   The National Association of Black Women in Construction and its vision, mission and goals.  Looking out into the future for 1,5,10,20, 100 years for the organization.

Then finally the books we read as members, disussions with Revonna Mitchell and Deborah Thompson,

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Linda Porter is currently the Florida Diversity Manager for Skanska USA Building Inc. She received a B.S. degree in Interior Design from The Florida State University and has over 23 years of experience in the industry (10 of those have been with Skanska).  She brings field knowledge along with an energetic personality. Currently serving on the Hillsborough County (CAC) Community Advisory Committee and recently selected by the Tampa Chamber for the Leadership Tampa Class of 2014, Linda is a champion for her community.    Linda is responsible for implementation, promotion, management, coordination and evaluation of marketing and DBE outreach efforts in the Florida Region.  She also maintains a database of approved DBE companies for project utilization. A strong advocate for minority and small businesses, Linda embraces Skanska’s Core Value of ‘advancing a culture of inclusion in the Construction industry’.

Sandra is the Executive Director of WPEO DC, a regional affiliate of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s leading advocate of women-owned businesses and third party certification organization.  Certifying more than 475 businesses each year as 51% woman owned, operated, managed and independently run, Sandra supports an operation of women business enterprises that generate more than $3.1 billion dollars in revenue and employs more than 30,000 workers in the Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. territory.

Prior to joining WPEO-DC in March 2011 Sandra worked in Corporate America.  As the Asset Manager for a major healthcare’s northeast region she managed all leased/owned facilities and administrative sales shared service operations in the Northeast. 

Sandra’s formal education includes a BA from SUNY Potsdam as a licensed a Math Teacher; Project Manager Certification from Boston University Corporate training program; Quality I

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I am currently the Director for Social Security Administrationss (SSA) Division of Eastern Regional Contracts. I have almost 30 years working for the Federal Government. I started my Federal career as a Student Engineer working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington WV District, Construction Division. One of the requirements at the University of Cincinnati, was for Engineering and Construction Management students to participate in the co-op program were we worked alternating quarters with a company in a field related to our major. After graduating in the mid 1980s with my Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Management, I accepted a permanent position with the Huntington District where I was assigned as an Engineer/Inspector at the Yatesville Lake, KY dam site where we were building a new earth-filled dam and appurtenant bridges and roads. Other assignments in the early 1990s with the Corps of Engineers took me to Kuwait City Emergency Recovery Offices Construction Division to assist with the re-building of Kuwait City after the Gulf War and to our Miami Office after Hurricane Andrew hit southern Florida. I transferred to the Baltimore Districts Construction Division in 1995 where I remained as a contract administrator until January 2001. In January 2001, I switched careers to become a Contract Specialist with the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, DC. I transferred to SSA in August 2004. I have been in my current position since September 2009.

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As a marketing communications expert and entrepreneur, Stephanie possesses over 20 years of developing and executing effective marketing and public relations campaigns as well as producing small to large-scale special events. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Detroit-Mercy. She has worked as a Marketing Consultant for over 20 years and has serviced clients within the Construction, Education, Healthcare, Retail, and the Cultural Arts industries.

She currently resides in the Miami, FL area and is the President & CEO of Milestones Marketing, LLC, a Construction Marketing Agency providing strategic marketing solutions to construction companies, general contractors, construction-related suppliers, non-profit housing developers, and non-profit and government construction-related projects to help increase visibility of their brand, manage communications for construction projects, as well as position them to attract new business opportunities.

She has been featured in national media including The Talk, FOX News, The Steve Harvey Morning Show, The Michael Baisden Show, CNN’s Comcast Newsmakers, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg Urban Report, Fox TV’s The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet, NAACP’s Crisis magazine, Black Enterprise.com, NBC News’ (thegrio.com), Yahoo! News, The Atlantan magazine, The Atlanta Voice and several other local radio and television media outlets.

Currently, she volunteers as the Chair person for the Economic Community Partnership, a network of public/private microenterprise development service providers throughout Miami-Dade and Broward counties and she volunteers for Habitat Miami’s WomenBuild program. She is a member of the National Association of Black Women in Construction (NABWIC). 

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Sandra is the Executive Director of WPEO DC, a regional affiliate of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s leading advocate of women-owned businesses and third party certification organization.  Certifying more than 475 businesses each year as 51% woman owned, operated, managed and independently run, Sandra supports an operation of women business enterprises that generate more than $3.1 billion dollars in revenue and employs more than 30,000 workers in the Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. territory. 

Prior to joining WPEO-DC in March 2011 Sandra worked in Corporate America.  As the Asset Manager for a major healthcare’s northeast region she managed all leased/owned facilities and administrative sales shared service operations in the Northeast. She approved and arranged for financing of capital spending plans consistent with financial objectives as well as developing programs for efficiency gains and delivering them nationwide.

As a Director of Customer Service for a regional Healthcare company, Sandra directed the activities over 100 employees responsible for servicing over 200,000 insured lives and over 10,000 providers and hospitals.

As an advocate for women’s issues she has been a member of the New York Women’s Agenda, a coalition of women’s organizations, affiliated with over 100 organizations in New York City, dedicated to improving the lives of women and their families.  A member since 1998, she served as President 2006-2008 as an active advocate for women’s economic empowerment. 

Sandra’s formal education includes a BA from SUNY Potsdam as a licensed a Math Teacher; Project Manager Certification from Boston University Corporate training program; Quality Improvement and six sigma training and specialist in HR.

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