WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, Chair of Jobs for America’s Graduates, President of the Business Roundtable Governor John Engler and Executive Director of Gallup Education Brandon Busteed will deliver remarks at the 9th annual National Thought Leaders Event being hosted by Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) September 30th.
The event will feature a series of panels and working sessions with 100 plus leaders from the public and private sectors that will focus on the development of policies and programmatic strategies to combat the nation’s vast unemployment problems that exist for at-risk and disadvantaged youths. A partial list of panelists includes:
Congressman Don Beyer – U.S. Representative, Virginia
Commissioner Mark Butler – Georgia Commissioner of Labor
Louisiana Representative Chris Broadwater – Representative, Louisiana House of Representatives
Dr. Mona Mourshed – Head of McKinsey’s Global Education Practice
Scott Sanders – Executive Director of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies
Luis Felipe Rodriguez Vega – Head of Commercial Sales in U.S. of Western Union
Brandon Busteed – Executive Director of Gallup Education
Governor Bryant, the Chair of JAG’s Board of Directors, will be joined by four co-host organizations including Hal Smith, Senior Vice President of Education of the National Urban League; Antonio Tijerino, President & CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation; Neil Horikoshi, President & Executive Director of the Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund, and Lynn Shotwell, Executive Director of the Council of Global Immigration (an affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management) in hosting the event.
The roundtable is expected to produce a specific set of proven or promising policy and programmatic recommendations that Governor Bryant and the nine other Governors on the JAG National Board of Directors can take directly to state, federal and private sector leaders that have the power to implement them.
WHAT: JAG’s ninth annual National Thought Leader Event, Policies and Programmatic Solutions to Historic Levels of Youth Unemployment
WHEN: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Governor Bryant will deliver opening remarks at 8:10am.
WHERE: Gallup, Inc.
901 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20004
About JAG
Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) is a non-profit organization celebrating its 35th anniversary with a proven track record of helping at-risk young people graduate from high school and make successful transitions to postsecondary education or meaningful employment. JAG has served over 1 million youth. It is currently assisting approximately 50,000 young people in over 1,000 community high schools, middle schools, community colleges, and other learning locations in 32 states to achieve academic, career and life success. Some 90% of the youth in the JAG National Network have successfully graduated and over 80% are working, in college, or both a year after graduation. More information about JAG can be found at www.jag.org.
