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Tampan Is Only Floridian To Represent Her Sorority With Google Partnership
BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor
Created by Black Women for Black Women, Program Aims to Equip Group Dispro- portionately Impacted by Unemployment with Critical Digital Skills Needed for Today’s In-Demand Jobs
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, joins “Grow with Google: Black Women Lead,” a new initiative to pro- vide 100,000 Black women with career development and digital skills training by spring 2022. Over the course of the next year, “Grow with Google” will work with the partner organizations to offer leadership development and digital skills training to sup- port Black women nation- wide.
A Tampa native will be the only Floridian to repre- sent the sorority for this ini- tiative.
Myeesha Harris, a member of Beta Sigma Zeta Tampa Chapter, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., was selected along with 14 other sorority members to serve as part of the sorority's partnership with the Grow with Google program.
Harris is “excited about the opportunity that partner-
ship will bring to our commu- nities. The workshops are for anyone 16 years of age and older. We encourage our vet- erans, military, elderly, high school students, jobseekers, small business owners, or anyone who just wants to learn more about Google to complete the form. We are ready to work with our com- munities and any community organization in the US and abroad,” she said.
“Zeta Phi Beta Sorority,
MYEESHA HARRIS Grow with Google Trainer ZOL Train-the-Trainer Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated
Incorporated, is truly excited about partnering with Google and its Grow with Google ini- tiative. Through this work our sorority will elevate the digi- tal and leadership skill set of at least 20,000 predomi-
nately Black women in the more than 950 communities where we serve stateside and abroad. This partnership aligns with Zeta's founding principles of scholarship and service,” said Valerie Hollingsworth Baker, In- ternational President of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorpo- rated.
Among the trainings to be offered are:
Digital Skills for Every- day Tasks * Improve Your Resume With Practical Strategies * Power Your Job Search with Google Tools * Design Thinking for Entre- preneurs * Collaborate, Meet and Work Remotely * and Enhance Your Leadership Skills With Women Will.
To sign up for the initia- tive go to https://forms.gle/3cGD9Xk6 FvgDeDyd8.
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