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Presorted Standard U.S. Postage Paid Austin, Texas Permit No. 01949 TPA TEXAS PUBLISHERS www.TheAustinVillager.com ASSOCIATION This paper can be recycled Vol. 45 No. 17 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected] September 15, 2017 Starbucks Names Forbes Magazine INSIDE AKA Soror is Calling Her Rosalind Brewer “The Next Steve Jobs” as Its New Chief RAPPIN’ Stephens dominates Tommy Wyatt Operating Officer Keys in the U.S. Open final. Move over Serena See SLAM and Venus! Here Page 2 comes Sloane and Madison! For the last decade and a half, Venus and Serena Williams have been the leading American women on the professional Tennis Tour. Global music icon They won more tennis rendered a profound championships around the performance. world than any other female See JACKSON players in history. Venus was Page 6 the first to master the tour. But Angel Rich her father said from the by: Businesswomen.org (Courtesy of Afro.com) beginning that Serena would Angel Rich, from Washington, DC, has be better. He turned out to be developed a very innovative app called Credit Stacker right. Serena remained the Rosalind Brewer that teaches students about personal finance, credit champion until she became management, and entrepreneurship in a fun and en- pregnant this year. She had the by: Watch the Yard (Courtesy of Afro.com) gaging way. The app is so popular that 200,000 people H-E-B Chairman baby this summer and is Starbucks just named Alpha Kappa Alpha downloaded it to their smart phones and tablets within contributes millions expected to return to the tour soror Rosalind Brewer, the former president and CEO just two weeks of it’s launch. Even more, Forbes has to Flood Relief Fund. next season. See WATT of Sam’s Club and one of the most prominent Black named her “The Next Steve Jobs”. Two more young Black Page 8 women business leaders in America, its new chief op- Remarkably, the app has been named the “best women joined the tour a erating officer and group president, giving her the sec- financial literacy product in the country” by the Office couple of years ago with ond highest position at the company. of Michelle Obama, the “best learning game in the Austin not much fanfare. Venus She is the first woman, and first African Ameri- country” by the Department of Education, and the “best and Serena became their Chamber can, to hold such a post at Starbucks. solution in the world for reducing poverty” by JP Mor- mentors and decided to Brewer is a proud graduate of Spelman College gan Chase. It has won first place in several business Honors teach them everything that and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., who competitions including the Industrial Bank Small Busi- they knew about how to be Capital Metro has been listed as the 64th most powerful woman in ness Regional Competition and the Black Enterprise successful on the tour. the world by Forbes and one of the 50 most Powerful Elevator Pitch Competition. All in all, Angel has won Wellness Sloane Stephens and Women by Fortune more than $50,000 in business grants. Madison Keys both had a Program Brewer left Sam’s Club and Walmart earlier this See $6 BILLION IN REVENUE, page 2 strong game. They were year and will begin her new position at Starbucks in very impressive and were October where she will report directly to new Starbucks FEMA Hiring Texas Residents for expected to go quickly up CEO Kevin Johnson. Hurricane Harvey Recovery Jobs the ranks. However, both “Roz is a world-class operator and executive who sustained injuries that kept embodies the values of Starbucks. She has been a AUSTIN, Texas – In partnership with the State of them on the sidelines for a Texas, FEMA is hiring workers across the state for ad- AUSTIN, Texas — The trusted strategic counselor to me ever since she joined Austin Chamber of Com- long period of time. our board of directors, and I deeply value her insight, ministrative, logistical and technical jobs related to hur- Both Sloan and Madison ricane recovery. merce last week honored business acumen, and leadership expertise,” Johnson Capital Metro with the Se- entered the U. S. Open this year said in a statement. “I am honored that Roz is joining Those hired will join the recovery team – local, with neither of them being state and federal workers, voluntary agencies and com- ton Healthcare Family Starbucks in this capacity and playing an important role Health & Wellness Award given much of a chance to go with an accomplished team of senior leaders that re- munity organizations – already in place. Through tem- very far in the tournament. porary local employees, FEMA gains valuable commu- at the 17th Annual Greater flects the strength and diversity of our organization.” Austin Business Awards. But, a couple of things “I am so honored to have the pleasure of working nity insights, provides jobs and puts Texans to work happened that made the tennis helping Texans. The ceremony was held on with the Starbucks leadership team to realize our high- Wed., Aug. 29 at the Hilton world stand up and notice. est of aspirations for the company and I look forward Jobs posted recently pay between $14 and $34 per Both had made it to the hour. Some of the jobs include: administrative support Austin with an audience of to working closely with the astute and talented lead- about 1,000 chamber semifinals with the all U. S. A. ers across the enterprise,” Brewer said in a statement assistant, civil engineer, communications specialist, finals. Sloan had to play Venus construction cost estimator, courier, crisis counselor, members and government According to a press release, Brewer, who has officials. Williams and Madison had to been on Starbucks’ board of directors for a while al- customer service specialist, environmental specialist, play Coco Vandeweghe in floodplain management specialist, graphics specialist, The Greater Austin ready, will be in charge of the company’s coffee stores Business Awards cel- order to make it to the in the U.S., Latin America and Canada. Additionally, she hazard mitigation outreach specialist, historic preser- championship match. In the vation specialist, registered nurse and voluntary agency ebrate organizations for will be in charge of the Starbucks’ product develop- achievement in customer end, it was Sloane and ment, global supply chain and store innovation plans. liaison, among others. Madison playing for the The first step is to register at WorkinTexas.com, service, environmental Brewer was initiated into the Mu Pi Chapter of impact, as well as commu- championship. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, at Spelman the Texas Workforce Commission’s website, where ap- It was obvious that College where she was a class of 1984 graduate. plication instructions are posted. FEMA will announce See WELLNESS, pg 6 neither one had been in a more jobs soon. championship match before. But in the end, Sloane won in While DACA’s March 2018 Deadline Gets All the Attention, two sets. However, they are both big winners. We will be The Real Deadline for Many is October 5th, 2017 seeing a lot of these two women in the years to come. Washington, DC – President Trump’s cruel decision to end the Deferred And you can bet that the Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has also sparked rampant Williams sisters will be around misunderstanding about the deadlines and time pressures facing current DACA for a few more years too. recipients. Maybe next time, we will see While most observers are paying attention to the six month deadline on four Black women in the March 5, 2018, the most pressing deadline facing a quarter of the 800,000 DACA semifinals. beneficiaries is October 5, 2017, less than one month away. What’s more, ap- In the meantime, parents proximately 200,000 teenagers and pre-teens who were looking forward to put a tennis racket in your participating in DACA once they turned sixteen have absolutely no recourse. child’s hands. See “AGING IN” ELIMINATED ALREADY, page 7 Page 2 ~ THE VILLAGER/September 15, 2017 THE COMMUNIQUÉ www.theaustinvillager.com Stephens Tops Keys Rich helped Prudential in US Open Final for generate 1st Grand Slam Title more than by: Howard Fendrich | AP Tennis Writer $6 billion in revenue Continued from page 1 Angel was raised in Washington, DC, and Angel Rich, Founder, The Wealth Factory App graduated from Hampton University. She also stud- cessful at doing this! In on board as well. ied at the University of In- fact, her company has A major challenge for ternational Business and been so impressive that Angel has been that Economics in Beijing, the National Alliance of women are still heavily dis- China. Public Charter Schools criminated against in the After winning named it the ninth best ed- business and techhnology Prudential’s annual Na- tech company of 2015. sectors, and their compa- tional Case competition Her company’s Credit nies are not equally for her marketing plan to Stacker app is available in funded. In fact, less than reach millennials, she four languages and in 40 20% of venture capital dol- worked briefly as a global countries, and is quickly lars go to women-owned market research analyst approaching 1 million companies. And, for Black for Prudential, where she downloads. women, the numbers are conducted over 70 finan- Although the app is even lower. cial behavior modification free for users to down- According to a report Sloane Stephens, of the United States, reacts after scoring a point against studies. load, the revenue model by #ProjectDiane, Black Madison Keys, of the United States, during the women’s singles final of She says that during is to generate money on women represent only 4% the U.S.