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D CEO’s May Digital Edition
This issue features a report on how Ann and David Sutherland transformed the luxury home goods industry and a look back at some of our top stories of the past 15 years.
By Kelsey Vanderschoot
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Business & Economy
May 11, 2021
11:00 am
D CEO’s 92-page May 2021 edition is now available online. Find out how Ann and David Sutherland transformed the outdoor furniture space and read some of D CEO’s memorable stories over the past 15 years as we celebrate our anniversary this month.
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The two University of Pennsylvania seniors met during their first week on campus freshman year, both living in the Quad’s Ware College House, both planning to major in neuroscience and minor in chemistry, and both on their way to hoped-for careers in medicine.
“I started seeing Amanda in all my classes, in fact in every single one, from the big lectures to the small writing seminar. And I was thinking, ‘Are you following me?’ Everyone is looking for a friend, and I was lucky to have found Amanda,” says Christina Miranda, from Milford, New Jersey.
“We have been a dynamic duo ever since,” says Amanda Moreno, from Miami, who has a second minor in French and Francophone studies.
Cuba has Santeria.
Jamaica still practices Obeah.
All are African religions brought by the more than 4 million people stolen from their homes to be slaves in the Caribbean during the 15th and 16th centuries.
University of Miami senior Kay-Ann Henry, who was born in Jamaica, decided to explore the ways that those enslaved people used the Obeah practices to try to liberate themselves.
One of six scholars who presented their research as part of the Library Research Scholars Program one that allows undergraduates a deep dive into the University Libraries research collections and service programs Henry presented her project, “How to Get Free, How the African Diaspora Used the Afro Caribbean Traditions for Liberation,” on Monday in an online presentation.