FREE Webinar: Too Black to Succeed - The FINSAC Experience by Valarie Dixon

FREE Webinar: Too Black to Succeed - The FINSAC Experience

Author, educator and entrepreneur, Mrs. Valerie Dixon has launched her thought-provoking book- “Too Black to Succeed - The FINSAC Experience”. She describes it as “a book exposing uncomfortable but necessary truths.” She aims to engage Jamaicans at home and across the global Diaspora, who she feels need to be more conscious of the important socio-economic factors of the past and present, which are determining the quality and standard of their lives and future. She hopes readers will understand why most black people are so earnest in their quest for equality, equal rights and justice.

The book gives a personal account of the author’s experience of the negative impact of the Financial Meltdown called ‘FINSAC’ on herself and many Jamaican entrepreneurs. She traces the historic, cultural and systemic marginalization, discrimination and struggles that have thwarted and frustrated the progress of black people since Slavery.

The book opens the way for healthy discussion and analysis, from the perspective of a committed citizen, educator and entrepreneur.

This book is a must-read for all who want black people world-wide to transcend the injustices of the past and present times.

About the speaker:

Mrs. Valerie Dixon is a trained Business Education teacher with many years experience, teaching CXC (O Level) and CAPE (A Level) pre-university subjects. She also teaches at the tertiary level and is certified by the University of Melbourne, in Australia, in the Use of the Language and Tools of Financial Analysis.

She is deeply involved in Community Development and Community Tourism. She is passionate about the Jamaican culture and its untold History. Mrs. Dixon is responsible for unearthing the legacy of Marcus Garvey in Resource, Manchester and has honed it into the Marcus Garvey Fair, which is now an annual event to commemorate Black History month in February. She is the first recipient of the UNIA’s Marcus Garvey Award for the Arts and is the elected Lady President of the UNIA-ACL Division 454/1.

She is currently a Director and Company Secretary of the family business for over thirty years and is a former Director on the National Board of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA). She is the Vice President for the Countrystyle Community Tourism Network/Villages as Businesses programme (CCTN/VAB). She is the Chairman of the Board for the Ward’s Park Early Childhood Institution. She is a former lecturer at Knox Community College in the Business Studies and Environmental Education Department. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Manchester Wellness Foundation (MANWELL), an NGO that raises funds for the hospitals and clinics in the parish of Manchester, Jamaica and also a Past President of the Manchester Chapter of the Jamaica Association of Guidance Counsellors in Education.

Mrs. Dixon holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Northern Caribbean University; a Bachelors Degree in Education from the University of the West Indies and a Diploma in Business Education from the College of Arts, Science and Technology, now the University of Technology.

She is a published author and also writes articles for local and international newspapers including SELF-HELP NEWS, a newspaper out of London. She represented Jamaica at the Regional Heritage Tourism Workshop at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination in Barbados and participated in the Women’s Resource and

Outreach Centre’s “Strengthening Women’s Leadership Initiative” Workshop. She is married to Alvin and they have a son and four grandchildren.

Her book 'Too Black to Succeed - The FINSAC Experience' will be available for purchase at the event.

THIS EVENT IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!

BRING YOUR CHILDREN TO LEARN ABOUT BLACK HISTORY NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS!!

This webinar will take place on Saturday 25 June 2022 from 19:00 to 21:00 GMT (14:00 EST, 13:00 CST, 11:00 PT)

Tickets for the webinar are FREE.

This is a WEBINAR via Zoom. The Zoom link will be provided upon registration.