UpwardAction Salutes Jason Hinton

UpwardAction Salutes Jason Hinton

Mr. Hinton is the founder and CEO of Concepts and Strategies.  Launched in 2005, Concepts and Strategies specializes in research and providing communications strategies and services to government agencies and non-government organizations worldwide. He is a lawyer by training, but left the practice of law to start his own business…
UpwardAction Salutes Isabel dos Santos

UpwardAction Salutes Isabel dos Santos

Isabel José dos Santos is an entrepreneur and investor who, in January 2013, was named by Forbes magazine as Africa’s first female billionaire with a net worth estimated at USD $1.9 billion.  Forbes also named her as one of Africa's richest people. 9 Facts about Angola's Isabel dos Santos 1.…

UpwardAction Salutes Fashion Icon Ann Lowe

Ann Lowe was a fashion icon and African American fashion designer who in 1953 designed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' wedding dress for her marriage to John F. Kennedy.  A trailblazer, Ms. Lowe opened “Ann Lowe Originals” inside the Saks Fifth Ave department store on Madison Avenue in New York in the…
UpwardAction Salutes Cathy Hughes

UpwardAction Salutes Cathy Hughes

Media Mogul, Cathy Hughes was born in 1947 to Helen Jones, a trombonist and her father Alfred Woods. She grew up with her family in the Logan Fontenelle Housing projects in Omaha, Nebraska - where her father worked while studying for an accounting degree at Creighton University. He proudly became…