The Executive Leadership Council Recognizes
First Ann Fudge Scholars

Two students from University of Michigan
and Howard University receive scholarships

Sheila Collins, a native of Brooklyn, NY, and Lenora Robinson of Richmond, VA., are the graduate and undergraduate, respectively, student winners of The Executive Leadership Council's newly endowed Ann Fudge Scholarships for women studying business. The scholarships, which award each of the women $5,000, were launched at The Executive Leadership Council's Black Women Economic Summit held in June. Both women are to be recognized at The Council's 17th Annual Recognition Awards black tie gala, October 27, 2005, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC attended by more than 2,000 leaders of business, higher education, and public policy.

Sheila Collins, a native of Brooklyn, NY, is a second year MBA student at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Her area of concentration is corporate strategy and marketing. She earned a BS in marketing, with honors, from Long Island University, has studied in Mexico and is proficient in Spanish.

Ms. Collins was team captain of the first place team that won The Executive Leadership Council's 2005 Business Case Competition focusing on The Coca-Cola Company in South Africa: The Case for Black Economic Empowerment. Other awards she has earned include the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management Fellowship, the Dare to Dream Business Plan Competition, and the BCG 2005 Black Business Student Association Case Competition.

Prior to attending graduate school, Ms. Collins has held a series of progressively responsible marketing and research positions with companies such as Chase Manhattan Bank, Metropolitan Insurance Company, a company she co-founded, Creative Training Dept., Inc., and the Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies.

Lenora Robinson, a native of Richmond, VA., is a senior at Howard University studying international business and finance. A recognized leader, Ms. Robinson is vice-president of the Howard University School of Business Student Council, a member of Alpha Kappa

Alpha Sorority, Inc., a member of the international business society, and former president of the Howard University School of Business Executive Leadership Honors Program.

Ms. Robinson has competed on two winning school teams in the Abbott Laboratories Case Competition, held an internship in the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and served as a student ambassador for her school.

She is fluent in German and has studied abroad at the University of Salzburg, focusing on intermediate German and courses on the formation of the European Union.

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