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President Barack OBAMA's

Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) and the ATLANTA 1996

Atlanta, USA (June 26, 2014)

The ATLANTA 1996 was invited to participate in President Barack OBAMA’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI).  YALI is a signature effort of the Obama administration to invest in the next generation of African leaders. Today, Dr. Marc-Daniel GUTEKUNST, ATLANTA 1996 Co-Chair and CEO, Richard BUTCHER, ATLANTA 1996 SVP Sports-International-Government Relations, and Herb EDWARDS, ATLANTA COO gave a very well received lecture to twenty five (25) 2014 YALI Washington Fellows in residency for 6 weeks at Clark Atlanta University (CAU).  The ATLANTA 1996 lecture to the YALI Washington Fellows was entitled: “The ATLANTA 1996 African Story Combined with 12 Years of American Entrepreneurship & Success.”