(BALTIMORE – March 20, 2023) – BMORENews.com presents Black Wall Street BALTIMORE COLLEGIATE on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, from 6 to 8 pm at Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, located at 2525 Kirk Ave., Baltimore, MD 21218.
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Honorees include Lisa Mitchell Sennaar.
Who is Lisa?
Lisa Mitchell Sennaar is an experienced manager, liaison, administrator, and communicator, having worked, served, and volunteered in the commercial, public, and non-governmental sectors. She is a former small business owner, whose career also includes a decade in television and radio broadcast and production. She is a Small Business Reserve (SBR) Program Manager in the Governor’s Office of Small, Minority & Women Business Affairs. This office has oversight of the state’s Small Business Reserve (SBR), Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), and Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprise (VSBE) procurement programs across 70 agencies. Lisa is passionate about making access to opportunities and competition in state contracting more equitable, working with small business owners daily to connect them to tools that can help improve how they navigate and compete in the state contracting arena.
Lisa’s family, the Jackson Mitchells of Maryland reared her to understand their unwavering commitment to human rights. The Jackson and Mitchell women and men founded and led organizations and were elected to political office during the American Civil Rights Revolution of the 20th Century. Lillie May Carroll Jackson; Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Esq.; Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Esq.; Senator Clarence M. Mitchell III, Congressman Parren J. Mitchell, and other family members and allies protested in the streets starting in the early 1900s and worked through the local, state, and national branches of government to end lynching and Jim Crow segregation in Maryland and the nation.
They fought for laws that made government and the private sector more inclusive, like the 1957, 1960, and 1964 Civil Rights Acts, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the 1968 Fair Housing Act, and the laws that created Maryland’s MBE Program in 1978 and the SBR Program in 2004.
Lisa is honored to continue their legacy of advocating for and implementing fair and inclusive policies, particularly the inclusion of Black businesses in state contracting opportunities.
She resides in Baltimore, Maryland, is married, and is the mother of two Maryland college students.