Rising to the Top
On the way from her sometimes tough childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her role as co-CEO of the first and largest Black-owned asset management firm in the country, Mellody Hobson has been clear about one thing. Her passions about financial literacy and leaving the world a better place have endured because of her Chicago roots and the many challenges she's overcome, not in spite of them. A childhood she has described as "youngest of six kids, single mom, evicted a lot, phone disconnected, cars repossessed, you name it" made her desperate to understand money. Today Hobson says that teaching financial literacy is as important as teaching reading and writing.
Along with her leadership at Ariel, where she has worked since graduating from Princeton in 1991, Hobson is also chair of the board of Starbucks and has served on many other corporate boards. She is the only Black woman currently serving as chair of a Fortune 500 board. In 2021 she co-founded Ariel Alternatives, a private investment initiative to help close the racial wealth gap and to support Fortune 500 supply chain diversity. She is also the chairman of After School Matters, a Chicago nonprofit annually providing 18,000 area teens with high-quality after school and summer programs. Hobson is married to Star Wars creator George Lucas.
Please join us when this remarkable woman, Mellody Hobson, addresses the First Friday Club on Friday, May 6th, 2022.
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