PATRICE PERRY
PATRICE PERRY, Ph.D. Candidate, M.B.A.
Objective:
To inspire students to become successful managers and socially
responsible business leaders; and to develop thorough, relevant
research on business strategy and entrepreneurship, including ethical business practices and CSR, the role of businesses in promoting diversity
and equality in society, social entrepreneurship and development-based
entrepreneurship that positively contributes to the field of
management.
Throughout her career, Patrice Perry-Rivers has consistently demonstrated a high level of dedication, innovation, excellence,
measurable success, and a keen sense of social responsibility. 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.
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’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—management, entrepreneurship and business development, marketing and sales, business communication, budget administration, and fiscal planning—that she was able to later use in her professional pursuits.
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.
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’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—management, entrepreneurship and business development, marketing and sales, business communication, budget administration, and fiscal planning—that she was able to later use in her professional pursuits.
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.
About Patrice
Copyright 2009 Patrice Perry
P.O. Box 5144, Portsmouth, VA 23703
or 100 Walton Heath, Williamsburg, VA 23188
P.O. Box 5144, Portsmouth, VA 23703
or 100 Walton Heath, Williamsburg, VA 23188