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For Young Professionals, Leadership Is Balanced On 'Access, Opportunity And Information'

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Sharon Litwin
Published January 8, 2016 at 6:00 AM EST
Members of the Urban League of Greater New Orleans Young Professionals volunteer for STEM NOLA. President Jameeta Youngblood is on the far left.
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Members of the Urban League of Greater New Orleans Young Professionals volunteer for STEM NOLA. President Jameeta Youngblood is on the far left.

As demographics in New Orleans continue to shift, a pivotal issue among young African Americans is to find and develop leaders in the community. WWNO’s business manager Jameeta Youngblood and Brian Turner of Xavier University’s psychology department know this all too well: they’ve both spent years serving on different organizations around town and have experienced firsthand the challenges that need to be overcome.

Click here to listen to Brian Turner and Jameeta Youngblood's interview with Sharon Litwin.

Youngblood is the president of theUrban League of Greater New Orleans Young Professionals,and Turner serves on several boards, including theTremeImprovement Political Society.

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Sharon Litwin
Sharon Litwin is the founding president of NolaVie.com, the only daily cultural not-for-profit website of its kind in the United States devoted to exploring all aspects of the quirky, diverse culture of New Orleans. Sharon, along with Renee Peck, NolaVie Managing Editor, wrote, and NolaVie received, a grant from the J-Lab Project of American University, funded through the McCormick Foundation in Chicago, allowing NolaVie to launch in February, 2011. Since 2012, Sharon has produced Notes from New Orleans, a weekly on-air cultural news segment for WWNO that is complemented by her weekly âââ
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