Ambition in Black + White

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Melinda Marshall. Ambition in Black + White

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Melinda Marshall

Tai Wingfield

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“But I was sure I would prevail,” Drew Jarvis continues. “The way I thought of it was, if you set your sights on doing something—and I saw the end goal as really important—then you can succeed. Or as my mother often said, ‘Just put one foot in front of the other.’”

Four years before the end of her last term on the Council, Drew Jarvis set her sights on transforming Southeastern University, an institution founded by the YMCA that was in danger of losing its accreditation. Drew Jarvis saw it as a vital bridge for black businesspeople who knew all about the service they intended to provide, but not the art of doing business—and who lacked access to capital. She saw they might acquire the know-how and the connections they needed if, through Southeastern, they were matched with larger corporations. “So I took over the institution,” she says, “and did both jobs as legislator and president for four years.” She oversaw Southeastern for nine years before it merged with another institution.

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