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She brings these valuable qualities and her past career successes to academia and is inevitably a positive contributor to every organization of which she is a part.<br> <br> Patrice began her business and leadership training in college at the University of Virginia, where by the beginning of her junior year, she had become a student leader. While attending U.Va., she served in numerous leadership positions, including associate editor for one of the school's two main daily newspapers, a writer for the college&#8217;s Career Planning and Placement Office, co-organizer for a campus-wide student leadership training conference, and ultimately founder and editor-in-chief of the University's first minority student newspaper. She was also awarded recognition and a literary and leadership scholarship by the school, and the newspaper she co-founded and edited is housed in the University archives. In her various student leadership roles, Patrice had the opportunity to manage up to 40 volunteer and paid staff and regularly engaged in business planning and organizational development, advertising sales pricing and strategy, fundraising via alumni donation solicitation, new product development, and the creation and administration of multi-thousand dollar budgets. These roles enabled her to initially develop core business skills&#8212;management, entrepreneurship and business development, marketing and sales, business communication, budget administration, and fiscal planning&#8212;that she was able to later use in her professional pursuits.<br> <br> Before pursuing a career in corporate America, Patrice felt compelled to help those less fortunate than herself. Thus, Patrice decided to postpone obtaining a Masters Degree and co-launch a community development and outreach program for urban residents in Richmond, Virginia's Churchhill community. It was during this period that Richmond had the #5 murder rate in the nation, uncharacteristically high for a southern MSA. Patrice strongly felt that this high crime level was due to a sense of hopelessness resulting from economic depression and a lack of opportunity for the minority residents of this region stemming from social stratification in the former capital of the Confederacy. For three years, she worked with drug addicted men and women, formerly incarcerated individuals, community youth, senior citizens, local churches and other organizations to provide mentorship, career training, referrals to social help services, and instruction on business and personal ethics.<br> <br> After this rewarding experience, Patrice began her career in business at the Virginian-Pilot, Virginia&#8217;s largest daily newspaper, where she was one of the most successful marketing and sales executives during her tenure with the organization. She served in several positions with the company, including Marketing Analyst, Account Executive, Major Special Sections Coordinator, Strategic Sales and Marketing Consultant, and Senior Sales Executive for Real Estate. All of these roles provided her with invaluable business, marketing, and fiscal management experience, and she managed revenues up to $1.6 million dollars annually. When she left the newspaper, Patrice became highly successful managing her own small business as a realtor and team leader in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk MSA. In this role, she was named Rookie of the Year by the Greater Hampton Roads Realtors Association during her first year in real estate and was in the top 10% of agents in the market after only having been an agent for a few years. In fact, in 2003, Patrice was ranked 77th out of 5000 realtors in all of South Hampton Roads, Virginia, the largest portion of the Virginia Beach-Norfolk MSA (#35 MSA in the nation), based on sales revenue, and was the youngest realtor in the market with this designation.<br> <br> Bringing a wealth of experience from her professional and entrepreneurial pursuits, Patrice launched her academic career in 2008 at a regionally accredited, for-profit college in Southern Virginia. In this role, she developed and taught business, advertising, management, business applications, and ecommerce courses, and sought to inspire students to achieve success in their career endeavors, always emphasizing the necessity of employing ethical business practice and concern for society. While serving as an instructor of business, she developed a love for teaching and researching, and decided to pursue an academic career. After being selected as a Ph.D. Project member, Patrice was accepted into Rutgers Business School's Ph.D. in Organization Management program where she received an academic fellowship, and has majored in Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Her research interests reflect her passions and previous experiences, and focus on ethical business practices--including diversity and mitigating workplace discrimination, the effect of stratification on entrepreneurial strategy, social entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility.<br> <br> Balanced as well as focused, Patrice is a wife and mother of two beautiful children, an avid songwriter, fiction writer, and vocal musician who has produced two professional albums, one recorded at Sony Studios in New York, and one book. She has also actively contributed to her community as a mentor of under-privileged youth, co-founder of an inner-city outreach program, board member for a non-profit educational organization, participant in her church&#8217;s music and outreach ministries, and a former member of and corporate ambassador for the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce. Patrice&#8217;s past experiences have positioned her to be a successful and committed academic, capable of bridging the divide between academic research and practice. As Patrice is intellectually, culturally, and emotionally competent, a skilled writer, highly technologically literate, and socially responsible, she has the potential to contribute to any academic department as an effective researcher and professor.<br> </span></div> <div class="Object642"><span class="textstyle2">About Patrice<br> </span></div> <div class="Object643"><span class="textstyle3">P</span><span class="textstyle4">ATRICE </span><span class="textstyle3">P</span><span class="textstyle4">ERRY<br> </span></div> <div class="Object644"><span class="textstyle5">P</span><span class="textstyle6">ATRICE </span><span class="textstyle5">P</span><span class="textstyle6">ERRY, </span><span class="textstyle7">Ph.D. Candidate, M.B.A.<br> </span></div> <div class="Object645"><span class="textstyle8">Copyright 2009 Patrice Perry<br> </span><span class="textstyle9">P.O. Box 5144, Portsmouth, VA 23703<br> or 100 Walton Heath, Williamsburg, VA 23188<br> </span></div> <div class="Object646"><span class="textstyle10"><a href="mailto:patperryrivers@yahoo.com">Email:</a></span><span class="textstyle11"><a href="mailto:patperryrivers@yahoo.com"> patperryrivers@yahoo.com<br> </a></span></div> </div> </body> </html>