Angel Winchester is majoring in business administration with a concentration in finance. The sophomore is from Brooklyn, New York. 
ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA A unique conference experience has inspired a Winthrop University
student to keep pursuing her dream of being a financial planner.
Sophomore Angel Winchester recently attended the Forte Foundation's first Women of Color Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference was geared toward encouraging minority groups,
specifically women, to consider a career in business.
At the conference, Winchester, a Brooklyn, New York, native, learned about work etiquette
and how to respond to failure from Cynthia Bowman, Bank of America's chief diversity
and inclusion officer. Another session was a panel featuring experts from Credit Suisse,
DaVita, PIMCO and Bloomberg. The panel focused on how to be "more than a quota in
a corporation," Winchester said.
Winchester, who's majoring in business administration with a concentration in finance,
said the overall experience was amazing.
"It was great to meet women who look like me and are able to manage having a career
and having a family," she said, "to meet women who are confident in being in their
natural skin and owning their natural beauty. I also appreciated the insight on the
importance of accepting feedback, asking questions, learning more than your career
and properly carrying yourself within a work setting."
At Winthrop, Winchester serves on the Student Culinary Council and is a member of
the honor society Gamma Beta Phi and the university's NAACP chapter. She hopes to
be a financial planner.
The Forte Foundation is a non-profit powered by an alliance of women, universities
and corporations. The foundation seeks to increase the number of minorities in the
workplace and provides networking, career exploration, leadership training, business
education and more.
For more information, contact Nicole Chisari, communications coordinator, at 803/323-2236 or chisarin@winthrop.edu.
