Join us
for a Brown Bag Lunch
on
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
State
Library of Massachusetts
Room 341, State House
12 until
1:30 PM
Bring your
lunch and join us to hear Dr. Marcia Drew Hohn, Director of The Immigrant Learning Center’s
Public Education Institute, paint a compelling picture of these entrepreneurs
as job creators and engines for economic and social growth in Massachusetts. She will speak based on a
decade of research and eight reports by the Institute, which document
immigrants’ roles in neighborhood revitalization, biotechnology, hospitality
businesses as well as their work in the mid to high growth sectors of
transportation, food and manufacturing and building services.
Dr. Hohn
will interweave statistics and stories from the
reports to paint a vivid picture of the contributions
of these entrepreneurs to the economic vitality of the Commonwealth.
She will introduce you to some of the faces behind the stories including:
- Malee Thai, Pailin City, Lowell
- Julia Silverio, Silverio Insurance, Lawrence
- Larry Dossantos, 912 Auto, Dorchester
- Amar Sawheny, Ocular Therapeutix, Woburn and
- Klara Sotonova, Klara’s Gourmet Cookies, the Berkshires.
Print copies
of the reports will be available to attendees.
To register,
please go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GHQPVYX
You may also
register by calling the Reference Department at 617-727-2590 or by emailing to Reference.Department@state.ma.us
December’s
Brown Bag will be the following:
- Tuesday,
December 11th
Dr. Beryl Rosenthal, Executive Director, The Waterworks Museum, The History of Water in Massachusetts
