Marsha
Reeves Jews has over 20 years of executive level work experience; while
simultaneously building her consultancy practice, The Bissell Street Group that
specializes in business and relationship development, event planning and
marketing.
Recent
winner of WEAA’s Talent Search, “Keep It Moving” with Marsha Jews can be heard
on Mondays at 7:00pm. WEAA 88.9FM is a National Public Radio Affiliate and can
be heard live streaming on WEAA.ORG or TUNEIN.COM.
Ms.
Jews has formerly held C-Level positions as President/COO/Associated Publisher
for Career Communications Group; Executive Director of Alvin Ailey Dance
Theater Foundation of Maryland; and Vice President of Operations for the Modern
Day Marine Force in Readiness Military Exposition, the Capital Marines/Marine
Corps League.
Ms.
Jews’ accomplishments include; co-founder of the Women of Color Technology
Awards Conference, Black Family
Technology Awareness Week and LaFamilia Technology Awareness Week; and former
radio talk show host, the Marsha Jews Show on WHCR 90.3 in New York.
Marsha
has won numerous awards including the Mercedes Benz’s Visionary Award; a member
of the inaugural edition of Who’s Who in Black Baltimore, Community Leader; and
a Co-Author in the book, Incredible Business;
Currently
on the Board of the Stone Soup Leadership Institute; former Mayoral Appointee
of Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke as a Commissioner for Tourism, Entertainment and
Culture; Former Gubernatorial Appointee of Governor Parris Glendening as
commissioner for the Maryland Public Television Commission; Trustee for the
College of Notre Dame and Maryland Institute College of Art; Trustee of the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; founding board member of the Maryland Association
of Nonprofit Organizations; Trustee of Enoch Pratt Library and State Resource Library;
Port Discovery Children’s Museum; Maryland YMCA Central Maryland; Executive
Council and Member of Women’s Leadership Forum/DNC; American Cancer Society
State Board; Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust; LIFESONGS for AIDS; FANS
Board of the Baltimore School for the Arts and the Maryland Citizens for the
Arts Advocacy Committee which was intricately involved in passing the arts and
education program in Maryland Schools under Governor William Donald Schaefer.
An
avid volunteer in the Baltimore community; past president for Network 2000;
Charter member and past vice president of the Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter of
the National Coalition of 100 Black Women and co-chair of Washington
Metropolitan Chapter of Digital Sistahs; 1999 Co-Chair of the Annual Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra’s Gala; Chaired the 1997 and 1998 BESTFest Gala Fundraiser
for the Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust; co-chaired numerous political
events including the Democratic National Committees, Women’s Leadership Forum’s
Fund Raiser honoring First Lady, Hillary Clinton; fundraiser for United States
Senator Barbara Mikulski, former Lt.
General Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and former Speaker of the House Cas Taylor.
A noted public speaker, Ms. Jews’ has spoken to audiences as key-note speaker,
moderator and/or panelist and presenter for local, regional, national and
international organizations. A sampling listed: a discussion participant on the
working paper for The Morino Institute’s – From Access to Outcomes: Raising
Aspirations for Technology Initiatives in Low Income Communities; and a
participant of the à la Société Africaine des Sciences et des Nouvelles
Technologies (SASNET) conference in Brazzaville, Congo and speaker at the
Martha’s Vineyard Youth Leadership Initiative’s Walter Cronkite Memorial
Celebration.
National
Black Programming Consortium 2006 Convention; Towson University’s Women in
Computing; Baltimore City College; NAACP/ACT-SO; Johns Hopkins Technology
Institute; The EEO conference on Race –England; The Digital Divide
Conference-hosted by the Jamaican Minister of Technology; International
Alliance of Women Annual conference; National Association of Broadcasters/HR
Conference; State of Maryland Legislature’s State of Technology Conference;
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers-Women in Action Conference; Women in
Technology International (WITI) Annual Conferences; Women International
Feminist EXPO 2000; University of Maryland Baltimore County-Women in
Technology; Black Data Processors Association annual convention; Annual Women
of Color Technology Awards Conference, Advancing Minorities in Engineering
(AMIE); and Harlem Business Alliance, Economic Development Summit : Moderator;
Technology Panels.
Greater Baltimore Leadership Class ‘94; Attended
Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
