UMB Staff
“It was a huge risk. It helped me grow. It helped me to be more successful, and it helped me to become a leader, because I knew that as a Black woman, I had to constantly prove myself.”
—Gloria L. Blackwell, MA, chief executive officer, American Association of University Women, talking about taking risks during her career at the UMBrella Women’s History Month Symposium on March 13
“Self-care is not a luxurious indulgence — it is a conduit to your performance.”
—Randi Braun, MA, founder/CEO, Something Major, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author of “Something Major: The New Playbook for Women at Work,” during the UMBrella Women’s History Month Symposium on March 6
“There is so much uncertainty and fear, and that is really hard to watch. You can forget that sitting under the headlines are real people with families and bills and anxieties and stresses and pressures. And all of us know some of those folks. One of the lovely things about UMB and being on this campus is we don’t forget about the people who sit under those stories.”
—Renée Hutchins Laurent, JD, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law dean and professor, when asked about the uncertainty surrounding federal employees on “Virtual Face to Face: The Limits of Presidential Power” on Feb. 25
“Now is always the time to build on the lessons of Dr. King and shift our prevailing paradigm toward a more inclusive and self-prosperous future with the strategic direction of our public resources toward people and a sustainable environment in both an industrial and economic sense. In the end, the optimistic message is that the power lies within us.”
—Darrick Hamilton, PhD, the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and founding director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School, during the UMB Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month event Feb. 6
