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The mission of the Consortium is to enhance diversity in business education and leadership by helping to reduce the serious underrepresentation of African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in both our member schools’ enrollments and the

br PERSONAL EXPERIENCE I am a counselor for the Residential Living Program for Homeless Youth where I help teens have a better life . These teens are primarily African Americans who have parents in jail , and as a result receive little adult guidance and supervision . I work directly under the Life Skills coordinator /GED instructor , and in this capacity I help them meet their basic needs , such as food , clothing , shelter , and also see to it that they receive moral and emotional support through counseling , life skills training , workshop and recreational activities , and

GED and secondary education support to make sure that these kids will be equipped with the necessary skills to attain an effective and constructive matriculation to independent living . As a counselor and mentor , I conduct life skills counseling sessions to find out their hopes and dreams , and to help them fulfill these to a certain extent . Our team help them apply for work helping them with job applications and interviews . I help kids get their GED , and talk to them to help them figure out what they want to do . I take them out to the movies , ball games , and to college campuses so they will have an idea what people their age are doing . Through this exposure they see that one can be anything one wants to be , that they can be just like these other kids , and even better if they work on it . I am proud and happy with what I do , especially when I see some of these kids go from being homeless , with both parents in jail , to having jobs and living responsibly and independently . If I go to school away from Atlanta , I will keep in touch with these kids to make sure that they stay on track , and to make them know that somebody cares for them

Aside from this , I am also happy that I have been able to somehow influence the diversity of employees in the Atlanta area where I work . I contacted the Latin American Association to establish ties between them and the company to promote Latin population within Eworks . After a year of actively pursuing and promoting diversity , I have half of my staff consist of African Americans and Latin Americans . we are starting to see other city managers in my company do the same thing after seeing the positive impact it has had in my territory . After all , our main goal is to reduce the serious under-representation of ethnic minorities , and by taking these simple steps we are able to effect some change...

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