Women with vision

Published: Monday | September 21, 2009



Elaine Bryan - Contributed

First Global Bank is moving ahead to conclude the final leg of this year's Vision programme. To that end, today it will host a special forum for Jamaica's next generation of women, giving young women from some of the Corporate Area schools the opportunity to interact with some well-known women over breakfast at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel.

Guest speaker at this event will be Elaine Bryan, Flair contributor and an empowerment speaker as well as Georgia Leadership Sandy Springs Graduate 2009. She is the recipient of Mayor Shirley Franklin Phoenix and Judge Glenda Hatchett awards for her devotion to service and education. She is also a real estate expert seen on HGTV and Fine Living channels. The breakfast will take place today at 8:30 a.m. at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel.

Among the women who have already confirmed attendance are Eleanor Jones, director of Environmental Solutions; Director of the University of Technology Centre for the Arts, Pat Ramsay; CEO of United Way, Winsome Wilkins; Roxann Linton, country operating officer of RBTT; Lorna Bell, executive director of Special Olympics Jamaica; and Maia Chung-Smith, winner of the First Global Vision Award 2009.