Sarasota, FL (PRWEB) March 03, 2022 The Voice + Visibility Women’s Summit has announced they will be opening their doors for their month-long virtual event
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced the hiring of Neil Phillips as its first Chief Diversity Officer as an integral part of its continuing commitment to implementing reforms to promote greater diversity, equity, and inclusion both within the organization and within broader Hollywood and journalism communities.
One of Sarasota County’s and Manatee County’s most high-profile educators has broken his silence on why he stepped down from the charter school he founded.
Neil Phillips, one of the four co-founders of the Manatee charter school Visible Men Academy, had resigned with little public explanation in February. His unexplained departure was particularly mysterious because he gave no notice to the vast network of supporters who funded nearly $1 million of the school’s annual budget.
Following a story on his departure that ran in Monday’s Herald-Tribune, Phillips released a lengthy statement early Tuesday morning, saying that a broken relationship with the school’s other co-founders had led to his departure.
Visible Men Academy in Manatee County moves on from founder’s exit
Louis Parker didn’t have much in common with his classmates at Phillips Academy Andover in 1969.
The child of an uneducated facilities manager, Parker showed up at the nation’s most elite boarding school having grown up on a diet of government cheese and powdered milk.
His dad couldn’t read. His buddy Jeb, meanwhile, lived in the same dormitory and would become Florida’s governor, while Jeb’s father and brother would both go on become president of the United States.
Parker had gotten a scholarship to Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, and it was a gift that dramatically altered his life’s trajectory, opening doors unimaginable to him as a poor child growing up in Pittsburgh. Those doors would lead to the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and then the heights of corporate America.