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Marie Johns is the former
President and CEO of Verizon in Washington, DC. During her
career at Verizon Johns worked to enhance and improve the
District's viability on several fronts, including co-chairing
Verizon's effort to obtain a $10 million grant for the DC
Public Schools to implement a school to careers reform
initiative and spearheading SEEDS (Students Educated for
Economic Development Success), a Verizon-sponsored program
that trains out-of-school youth for jobs in information
technology. In addition, Johns served as a director of a
non-profit organization that provided funding for cable
installations and high-speed internet connections along with
teacher and library personnel training for every public school
and library in DC. Johns is the Washington DC Technology
Council's Founding Chair, the co-chair of the Steering
Committee for the $35 million New East Capitol Hope VI
initiative, a mayoral appointee to the Health Services Reform
Commission, and an appointed member of the US Department of
Energy's Electricity Advisory Board (EAB). Johns is a Trustee
of Howard University, a Director of the DC Chamber of
Commerce, the Federal City Council, the Washington Performing
Arts Society and the Economic Club of Washington. She was
presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters from
Trinity College in May 1999 and was named as on of the
Twenty-Five Most Influential Black Women in Business by the
Network Journal in April 2003. Jones received her Masters in
Public Affairs from Indiana University. Source: http://dc.gov/mayor/bios/johns.shtm
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