Eddwina Bright, MBA, Co-Founder & CPO

Eddwina Bright began her career at Citi where she focused on process improvement, best practices and current state/future state analysis for the Global Transaction Services business. After joining the Young Leadership Board of America Needs You, she eventually joined the organization as Chief of Staff and was instrumental in crafting their first career development curriculum for first generation college students. She was also responsible for all operations functions including marketing, executive communication, organizational events, recruitment, onboarding, and management of the organization’s volunteer pool of 400+ professionals. Eddwina has previously worked at Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, where she managed a career development program for high potential minority college students interested in building Corporate careers. She was responsible for initiatives related to assessing talent, providing professional development training and placing students in internships across 21 partner corporations including Goldman Sachs, American Express and IBM.

Through her dedication to academic and professional success, she graduated as Valedictorian of her class at Baltimore City Community College where she served as the Student Representative on the Board of Trustees and was a Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) fellow. Motivated to continue her advanced education; she enrolled at Morgan State University and graduated with honors, earning a bachelor’s degree in Finance. Eddwina also has an MBA from Columbia Business School. While there, she received the Student Service award from her peers, served as Academic Rep for her class and won several case competitions involving Blockchain, Diversity Hiring, Marketing and Business Development.  

In her time off, Eddwina enjoys travel (she has been to 40+ countries), consulting small businesses/entrepreneurs and spending time with her husband and two daughters.