(BALTIMORE – May 12, 2024) – Dewalt’s Karen Price-Ward will be a special guest on the Emmy-nominated Doni Glover Show on Monday, May 13, 2024. The Doni Glover Show, hosted by the award-winning BMORENews.com publisher, streams LIVE Monday through Friday at 9 a.m. EST on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter.
Who is Karen?
Karen Price-Ward is the Director of Social Impact and leads the $30 million DEWALT Grow the Trades Grant at Stanley Black & Decker. She advances global corporate citizenship across the enterprise by partnering with business units to support strategic objectives and ensure strong relationships with key stakeholders, employees, customers, investors, and community partners.
Price-Ward’s community network includes nearly 100 non-profit organizations and civic influencers worldwide. She has actively served on 8 national and 8 local non-profit boards and the University of Maryland Medical System Board, where she advises the Corporate Social Responsibility and Development Committee and chairs the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee. Moreover, she serves on the Maryland Aviation Commission and is Co-Chair of The Washington Center Alumni Advisory Council.
For 25 years, she worked at Southwest Airlines and became the first African American Mid-Atlantic District Marketing Manager overseeing the northeast marketing department in Baltimore. She created Continuing the Legacy in Aviation, the company’s 12-year sustainable workforce development, STEM, and youth mentoring program in partnership with Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. Transitioning Southwest to a diversified community contributor, she developed a multicultural marketing plan focused on the African American and Hispanic communities. She reached over 18 million people through blogs, national TV community campaigns, radio shows, and magazine-authored articles. Price-Ward is an advocate who promotes economic empowerment for underserved and underrepresented communities.
She earned her MBA from Johns Hopkins University and her BS in Marketing from Southeast Missouri State University, where she was recognized as the first African American Woman of the Year. Price-Ward enjoys supporting community-based initiatives that impact others, a lifestyle value she learned from her parents and continues with her husband and children.
