After returning home full-time in 2017, I began to invest in local companies, where I got to know many of our city’s entrepreneurs.
I also started teaching finance at Birmingham-Southern College. At 53 years old, I realized that I was a little rusty. So I decided that it was time for me to learn to program in Python as well as learn actuarial math. In December 2018, I became the 16th president of Birmingham-Southern. Continue reading Birmingham secret weapon on west side hilltop→
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Who am I?
People ask themselves this vital question from childhood until old age. What does this question really mean, and why do we continue to ask ourselves this question?
Let us start with our childhood. As a child I was a little Indian girl with an American accent with a twinge of southern slang. I moved to Birmingham, AL at the young age of one and been in love with Birmingham ever since. I attended school with other children who were very similar to me in personality and age group but not so much in appearance. When I asked myself – who am I? Continue reading Birmingham represents family, love, strength, diversity→
