Elayne DeLeo, founding partner of MA! Design Is Human and co-founder and director of the Atlanta Design Festival, which this year will be held virtually Sept. 12-30. To face down the coronavirus, Georgia has formed a variety of task forces on shoring up the economy, primary health care, emergency preparedness, homelessness and more. These groups all contain influential […]
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Atlanta Seeks Multilingual Volunteers for Census Texting Campaign
The City of Atlanta’s census committee is seeking volunteers fluent in languages including Spanish, French, Chinese and Korean for a texting campaign aimed at ensuring Atlantans fill out their full census forms. The message was circulated via Twitter and beyond by the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs. The acute effort complements Welcoming Atlanta’s ongoing iSpeakATL initiative, […]
Virtual Vitality: International Business Research Center Sees Opportunity in Online Shift
Editor’s note: This sponsored post was written by Tamer Cavusgil, Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Chair at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business, and Executive Director of Georgia State CIBER, a national resource center in international business. During the global pandemic, flexibility has become a byword for those in the business community, particularly for firms managing […]
Hartsfield-Jackson Named Most Efficient Airport for 17th Straight Year
Atlanta’s marketers try to ensure everyone knows the city’s airport is the busiest on the planet, but far fewer know that it’s also the world’s most efficient. The Air Transport Research Society determined at a virtual award ceremony in early July that Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport can wear that mantle for the 17th straight year. The […]
Birds: The Original Globalists, Through the Eyes of a Naturalist
For 30 years Stan Tekiela has been studying the flight patterns of birds around the world. Inspired by the work of living English naturalists Jane Goodall, the anthropologist, and Sir David Attenborough, the broadcaster, as well as their forebear John James Audubon, Mr. Tekiela told Global Atlanta, “I haven’t met a bird that I didn’t think […]
Metro Atlanta Chamber Promotes CEO From Within
Katie Kirkpatrick has been tapped to succeed Hala Moddelmog as president and CEO at the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Ms. Kirkpatrick, the chamber’s longtime chief policy officer, will begin in the new role June 15, building on her work advocating to shore up the region’s business environment. Her appointment comes as the chamber is helping galvanize […]
Georgia Tech President: Early Adoption of Online Programs Aids COVID-19 Transition
Ángel Cabrera, Georgia’s Tech’s new president, revealed the university’s updated mission statement and contents of its new strategic plan to the attendees of the May 19 virtual session of the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta while acknowledging that the COVID-19 outbreak had underscored the university’s adaptability. Georgia Tech is to be committed “to developing leaders who advance […]
Robinson Prof: Globalization to Return in ‘New Phase and a New Form’
With globalization increasingly under attack, Robinson College of Business Professor S. Tamer Cavusgil thinks that the future of the world’s economies will depend on individual and national character traits to rebuild whatever inter-connectivity is lost. In an online video addressing global crises exacerbated by COVID-19, Dr. Cavusgil said that he considers the trauma testing the […]
Habitat for Humanity International Cutting 10 Percent of Staff as COVID-19 Hits Global Donations
Habitat for Humanity International, the Atlanta-based umbrella federation over 300-plus global affiliates of the housing nonprofit, is laying off about 10 percent of its staff as its finances take a hit from the coronavirus pandemic. The layoffs and additional work hour reductions will take effect in the U.S. immediately and will ripple out to its […]
The CDC Is the Latest Focus of a Wright Family Home-Produced Video
As the coronavirus was being recognized for the global scourge that already had resulted in the deaths in China and elsewhere including the United States, home-schooled, 12-year-old Samuel Wright approached Nathan Crawford, a lead public health adviser at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for an interview. Samuel had won in February a regional […]
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