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Empowering Minority-Owned Businesses

October 16, 2024
In 2020, during the pandemic, alumna Ayanna Khan founded the Delaware Black Chamber of Commerce (DEBCC). Its goal is to provide a platform for Black entrepreneurs and professionals to connect, collaborate, and thrive.  Khan set up offices on Market Street in downtown Wilmington, and in just four years, the organization has burgeoned to 716 business members. In 2023, it was named the Black Chamber…
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Puppy Love

October 16, 2024
Puppies in classrooms: It was an alumna’s idea that went viral, captivating the international media while improving reading scores. If happiness is a warm puppy, as “Peanuts” cartoonist Charles Schultz opined, the first graders in Wilmington University alumna Brooke…
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From Aspiring Lawyer to Nursing Leader

October 16, 2024
ilmington University alumna Dr. Diane Juliano likes to say that her job is “to take care of the people who take care of the patients.” She was promoted to that job — regional chief nursing officer for Jefferson Health East — in January of last year. Her appointment…
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Community Intervention

October 16, 2024
In early 2022, Wilmington’s City Council and the City of Wilmington agreed to pay $38,000 to the Community Based Public Safety Collective to perform an analysis to help the city tackle and reduce community violence. The Collective interviewed over 58 stakeholders, surveyed 20 frontline intervention workers, and examined crime and hospital data to understand local violence. The City Council…
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Rodney Little: A Veteran Helping Veterans

October 16, 2024
Rodney Little Growing up in West Philadelphia in a family of seven, with a father who worked three jobs to pay the bills, Rodney Little was aware from an early age that college probably was not in his immediate future. That would come much later, at Wilmington University. …
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Joe Pro: This President’s Now a Hall of Famer

April 12, 2024
It seems that the title of “president” has followed Joe Pro around for most of his life. At Chichester High School, in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, he played football and was elected president of the senior class. Later, after he married and began raising a family, he was president of his children’s PTA.  In 1998, he earned a master’s in Business Administration from what was then…
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BFFs Lead Campus Wellness Center

April 10, 2024
Sometimes, the stars just align. That seems to be so in the case of Dr. Diane Mussoline and Dr. Kristen Wilson. The two mental health professionals arrived on the Rowan College of South Jersey (RCSJ) campus in Sewell about a year apart — Dr. Wilson in 2017 and Dr.
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Dr. Marietta Dantonio-Madsen: A Divine Calling

April 10, 2024
Wilmington University alumna and adjunct professor Dr. Marietta Dantonio-Madsen has dedicated her career to serving multicultural populations through art.  “Whenever I see a need, I have always felt that if I have a skill set that can help different people and…
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The Alums Who Started it All

April 10, 2024
From left: Gwen (Strauss) Stern (’74), Bonnie (Sager) Gurian (’73), Elin ( Juvelier) Fischer (’74), Dona (Leeds) Leibowitz (’73), Wendy (Rollins) Latham (’73) Judith Lemley (’72), is proud to say she was part of Wilmington College’s first graduating class. She remembers her 1972 ceremony vividly, from the inspirational speaker to the bleachers behind the “campus” where…
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