Background
Anderson grew up in Liberty City, Miami, Florida and earned degrees at Emory University and University of Chicago.
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Maggie Anderson
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Education
Her husband, John Anderson, is from Detroit, went to Harvard, and earned his Master of Business Administration at Kellogg School of Management.
Career
They conceived the project after an expensive dinner at the posh Tru restaurant on Chicago"s Magnificent Mademoiselle (Miss) Anderson studied constitutional law under Barack Obama at Chicago Law School. She was an executive at McDonald"son
Anderson and her family spent a full year (2009) patronizing, as much as possible, only African-American owned businesses, eschewing all others
She wrote a book about the experience, reporting that in some fields, it was difficult to find black owned businesses, and that black people patronized businesses within their own ethnic group less than other ethnic groups. Anderson has participated in successful political campaigns for Republican
John Lewis, Mayor of Atlanta Bill Campbell, and Barack Obama"s campaign for United States. Senate. She has done work for the RainbowPUSH Coalition.
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