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MBDA National Director to receive National Urban League Women of Power Award


Alejandra Y. CastilloMBDA National Director Alejandra Y. Castillo will receive the National Urban League’s “Women of Power Award” at the Women of Power & Business Leaders Awards Luncheon on Aug. 4 at the Baltimore Convention Center.

The luncheon is part of the 2016 National Urban League Conference:  Save our Cities: Education, Jobs and Justice. The award is presented to influential women in the civil rights, government, entertainment, journalism, sports, and corporate sectors.

Past winners include MSNBC/NBC Anchor Tamron Hall, Professional Boxer Laila Ali, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan E. Rice, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, President, Morehouse School of Medicine and hip-hop legend, entrepreneur and philanthropist, MC Lyte.