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Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta Air Lines; Mary The ELC’s Ann Fudge Scholarship received a ELC Board Chair Tonie Leatherberry with
Winston, ELC member and former interim CEO of $130,000 contribution from The ELC at its 2019 Rep. Joyce Beatty (OH), chair of the House
Bed Bath & Beyond; and David M. Ratcliffe, lead Women’s Leadership Forum (WLF): Kimberly A. Financial Services Subcommittee on Diversity
board director of SunTrust Banks (retired CEO Blackwell, WLF chair and ELC member, founder and Inclusion, at the 2019 Black Economic
of Southern Company) address the 2019 ELC/ and CEO of PMM Agency; former ELC CEO Skip Forum on Martha’s Vineyard.
African American Directors Forum Atlanta. Spriggs; ELC Board Chair Tonie Leatherberry; ELC
Interim President and CEO Crystal E. Ashby, former the racial wealth gap could increase
executive vice president, Government and Public
a valid explanation for the absence of Affairs, BP America; ELC Board Secretary Leilani M. the nation’s per capita gross domestic
diversity on corporate boards. Brown, senior vice president, Strategic Partnerships product (GDP) by 4%-6%. Narrowing
A s T h e E LC m e m b e rs h i p h a s and External Engagement for K12, Inc.; and ELC Vice that gap could put the United States

expanded to include entrepreneurs 3UHVLGHQW DQG &KLHI 3KLODQWKURS\ 2IżFHU 6DWRQ\D )DLU on a dramatic growth streak.
and thought leaders, The ELC as an For over three decades, The ELC has
organization is also embracing broader black/white wealth gap. The second advocated for more blacks on boards
leadership responsibility for its black Black Economic Forum, a partner- and in the C-suite, including the CEO

community. ELC Board Chair Tonie ship between The ELC and Sigma Pi RIŻFH DQG GHVLJQHG UHŻQHG DQG SUH
Leatherberry, a principal at Deloitte & Phi Fraternity, Beta Iota Boulé, a local sented unique leadership development
Touche LLP and president of the Deloitte chapter of the national organization programs. The ELC is now leading with
Foundation, has begun her Chair’s that sponsors social action and pub- a broader purpose, with depth and
Initiative in partnership with selected lic policy initiatives, met on Martha’s breadth, to embrace black entrepre-
Historically Black Colleges and Univer- Vineyard in August 2019. Black lead- neurs and thought leaders – stars in the
sities (HBCUs) to increase the number of ers in finance discussed addressing new business landscape – and take on

black males who earn college degrees. that gap, based on the ELC/McKin- LQVWLWXWLRQDO EDUULHUV WKDW KDYH GHŻHG WKH
The ELC has been supportive of HBCUs sey & Company report “The Economic stability and wealth aspirations of so
since its founding in 1986. Impact of Closing the Racial Wealth many black professionals. Learn more
The ELC is also poised to tackle the Gap,” which concludes that narrowing about The ELC at www.elcinfo.com.

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