Maggie Anderson

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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.

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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

Links (7)

• The Empowerment Experiment
• APB Speakers Profile
• BookTV: After Words: Maggie Anderson, "Our Black Year"
• A Family's Year of Buying Black
• MotherJones: A Year of Shopping Only at Black Businesses
• PBS Newshour: One Family's Effort to Buy Black for a Year
• C-SPAN: After Words with Maggie Anderson