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Kirkwood Businesswoman Invited to Attend PhD Project Conference
Antona Brent Smith, a Kirkwood resident and president and chief creative officer of a Kirkwood-based communications and marketing group, attended the award-winning program that supports diversity in corporate America.
Antona Brent Smith, a Kirkwood businesswoman and Kirkwood School District parent, was invited to attend the PhD Project Conference Nov. 14-16 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare. The PhD Project is an an award-winning program to create diversity in management. The PhD Project was created in 1994 to address the severe under-representation of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans in management by diversifying the front of the classroom-the business school faculty. A diverse faculty encourages more minorities to pursue business degrees, thereby increasing the pool of minority applicants for positions in today’s multicultural corporate environment. Qualified candidates are invited to this two and a half-day annual conference where…
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