Hi everyone!
Next time you run into Walgreens for a snack or to pick up some medicine, think of Rosalind Brewer! She is celebrated for being Walgreens’ next CEO and the only Black woman to currently lead a Fortune 500 firm!
Check out CNBC’s “Make It” for Courtney Connley’s full profile on her! Here’s a bit:
“As a longtime executive in corporate America, Brewer has been transparent about the challenges she’s faced as one of very few Black women in the C-Suite.
‘When you’re a Black woman, you get mistaken a lot,’ she said during a 2018 speech at her alma mater, Spelman College. ‘You get mistaken as someone who could actually not have that top job. Sometimes you’re mistaken for kitchen help. Sometimes people assume you’re in the wrong place, and all I can think in the back of my head is, ‘No, you’re in the wrong place.’”
