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- Member of the Daughters of the American Revolution
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- INDUCTS FIRST BLACK OFFICER
- NAMES FIRST BLACK OFFICER
The Maryland State Society Daughters of the American Revolution elected its first black officer on Tuesday, the predominantly white organization announced.
Maryland's first black officer of the Daughters of the American Revolution was inducted Tuesday in Baltimore.
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- Founder
- Owner
- President
- Entrepreneur in Ft
- Member of the Daughters of the American Revolution
- Research Fellow at Harvard
Prior to forming Encyde, Ms. Raney was Director of Internet Protocol (IP) Solutions for Concert (AT&T/BT Joint Venture). She worked in New York and London, defining new eBusiness models and developing an IP launch process. Ms. Raney also worked in Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, where she developed Concert's first formal Asia Pacific IP strategy. She joined Concert from AT&T, where she was a Data Networking Account Executive ranked in the top two of salespersons nationwide for three consecutive years. Prior to AT&T, Ms. Raney was an Estimating Engineer at Lucent Technologies.
Ms. Raney has a B.S. in Mathematics from Spelman College and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech. She is currently a Harvard University Non-Resident Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University under Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. host of PBS Special "Finding Your Roots". She is the founder of DaughterDialogues.com and the host of the Daughter Dialogues podcast.
As a descendant of President Thomas Jefferson's grandfather, Ms. Raney is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the past Organizing Secretary of the Maryland State Society. She also sits on the Living Classrooms of the National Capital Region Board of Directors.
Reisha Raney had never listened to a podcast when she decided to start one last year. A mathematician who runs a systems-engineering company in Fort Washington, Raney has, as a side project, spent years researching women of color who have joined the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was drawn to this topic for one obvious reason: Raney herself is a Black member of the DAR.
Reisha Raney. President & Founder, Encyde Corporation; B.S. in Mathematics, Spelman College; Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ranked top 4% of all women owned businesses by the National Association of Women Business Owners; Descendant of Thomas Jefferson's Grandfather; Has a boating license; Traveled to over 40 countries; Speaks Portuguese.
Reisha Raney is an entrepreneur in Ft. Washington, Maryland. Her systems engineering company is in the top four percent of women-owned businesses in the country. Raney has traveled the world, but nothing prepared her for the results of a deep dive into her family history.