The joy of brown eyes | Lemar Brown | TEDxThird Ward Salon

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Minority adoption in the USA now Lemar Marie Brown is a corporate board director and retired a career with Shell plc and Goldman Sachs. She is a former Executive Professor at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, where she continues to guest lecture. Lemar earned an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University. Most audiences know Lemar for her expertise in win-win negotiations. This TEDx Talk, however, reflects a deeply personal mission. Her first board was with CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), advocating for children navigating the foster care system. Through that experience, she learned that African American children are disproportionately represented in foster care and are adopted at lower rates than children of other racial backgrounds. When she and her husband decided to start a family, that knowledge led them to pursue adoption. In this TEDx Talk,

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