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Maggie  Anderson - The Perseus Books Group. Oak Park, IL, US

Maggie Anderson

CEO and Cofounder | The Empowerment Experiment Foundation

Oak Park, IL, UNITED STATES

Sought-after speaker, who has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN, PBS Newshour, and CBS Morning News, among other tv and radio shows

Media

Publications:

Maggie  Anderson Publication

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Videos:

Maggie Anderson CEO of Empowerment Experiment CNN's Suzanne Malveaux Interviews Maggie Anderson, Author of Our Black Year, March 2012 Maggie Anderson - The Empowerment Experiment The Empowerment Experiment - Family's Pledge to Buy Black Becomes a Movement

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Social

Biography

As CEO and cofounder of The Empowerment Experiment Foundation, Maggie Anderson has become the leader of a self-help economics movement that supports quality black businesses and urges consumers, especially other middle and upper class African Americans, to proactively and publicly support them. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and CBS Morning News, among many other national television and radio shows. She received her BA from Emory University and
her JD and MBA from the University of Chicago. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois, with her husband, John, and their two daughters. Ted Gregory is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

Industry Expertise (3)

Education/Learning

Research

Writing and Editing

Areas of Expertise (7)

Race and the Economy

African-American Businesses

A Call to Women: Find Your Cause

The Empowerment Experiment

Conscious Consumerism

Starting A Business

Small Business Ownership

Education (3)

The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business: Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Economics, Strategy 2001

University of Chicago Law School: JD, Law 1998

Emory University: BA, Political Science 1993

Affiliations (1)

  • American Program Bureau