Global Give Back Girls Come Full Circle
Inspired by Bill Clinton’s call to service in a 2005 speech, Linda Latsko Lockhart, MBA ’85, founded the Global Give Back Circle (GGBC), a nonprofit that enables high school girls in Kenya to make the leap to higher education. So she was thrilled when GGBC was selected and highlighted as a great success story at the opening session of the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative in September 2009. Lockhart, who is global director of the Cohen Brown Management Group, a management consulting firm, is featured in a Forbes.com “Forbes Women” article, “Helping Kenyan Girls Into College” (9/24/09). Lockhart and several GGBC members, teenage girls from Kenya, are also featured in videos of the opening and closing ceremonies at this year’s CGI meeting, posted on the CGI Web site. “It truly was a Cinderella story,” says Lockhart. “I owe so much to Cornell for giving me the ‘commercial skills’ to take on a social intervention like this with confidence.”
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