Damita Salters is a Vice President and Consumer Market Manager for Bank of America. In this role, she leads 14 banking center teams in providing innovative products and services to meet the financial needs of over 113,000 households in the Broward County community. Through In addition to her current role, Ms. Salters serves as chair of the South Florida Chapter of the Black Professional Group. BPG is one of the leading Employee Network Groups within Bank of America whose focus is to maximize the contributions and enhance the professional development of its members across lines of businesses and the franchise. Salters earned a Bachelor Degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Finance from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia and a Master of Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is a native of Orangeburg, South Carolina and resides in Weston, Florida.
Sandy A. Sears has served Jackson Health System for 38 years in several capacities. Currently, she is chief administrative officer at Jackson North Medical Center, acquired by JHS in 2006. Under her leadership, Jackson North has been recognized for excellence in oncology services, maternity services, surgical services, cardiovascular, stroke, bariatrics, and other growth initiatives. Sears joined Jackson in 1975 as an assistant administrator. Sears rose steadily through the Jackson ranks to senior vice president of ambulatory and community health services, providing leadership for a network of primary care centers, school based health centers, hospital based specialty and subspecialty clinics, and other community health programs.
Trabian Shorters has a long history of creating and running innovative networks for the public good. As Vice President of Communities for Knight Foundation he is responsible for making informed and engaged communities in 26 large and small cities across the US. He is responsible for the Knight Community Information Challenge (KCIC), a field-leading initiative to get hundreds of foundations to support local news and information. He is the principal behind Knight’s ground-breaking Black Male Engagement (BMe) work which focuses on thousands of black men as catalysts for positive local action. The Communities Program portfolio includes over $300M in active grants and endowments.
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