Welcome to season 2, episode 31 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast.
This week my guest is Melissa Prashad, Community Manager, Community & Business Development for JP Morgan Chase & Co.
In her role she builds and nurtures relationships with key community leaders, nonprofit partners and small businesses at the neighborhood level.
She is working to help advance racial equity by supporting Black and Latinx communities with tools and resources to help them improve their financial well-being.
Melissa shares that she was in a challenging marriage and is now a single parent to a young son. She is parenting, while going back to school for her master's degree and working part-time.
Many times, on this podcast we discuss mentorship. Here, Melissa talks about the mentors she has had along the way and also the importance of nurturing your leadership garden. She names some of the people that are in hers and she hopes that as she grows in her career if not already, that she is someone that is in other people's garden's as well. She really wants to help make a difference in her corner of the world and beyond.
Listen in to hear the footprint that Melissa is creating now that she wants to leave behind.
Next week my guest is Heather Mistretta. Heather is Founder & President, Pressing Releases & President, WAGE (Women & Girls' Education) International. We talk about her passion for sharing other people's stories and about the work she is doing through WAGE to help empower woman and girls through education overcome violence both here in the U.S. and in other countries.
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