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DCA Live Friday Hangouts
Join DCA Live for our weekly Friday Hangout virtual networking series. Each week, we’ll invite a prominent DC-area CEO, founder, investor, real estate developer or general business sage to join us and share some thoughts on hot topics in local business. Join us by Zoom to meet our guests, ask questions, and join the discussion. Friday Hangouts are open to DCA Live members, partner companies, or you can purchase a day pass for the session. As our virtual business world continues for at least another several months, don’t miss these opportunities to meet local leaders and network with other DCA Live friends and partners.
Friday, May 14, 2021 10-11am
Special Guest: Joy Newton-Small, Founder, MemoryWell
Jay Newton-Small, National Fellow, is CEO and founder of MemoryWell, a national network of more than 700 writers who tell the life stories of seniors to help improve their care.
Previously, Newton-Small was Washington correspondent for TIMEMagazine, where she remains a contributor. At TIME, she covered politics as well as stories on five continents from conflicts in the Middle East to the earthquake in Haiti and the November 2015 Paris terror attacks. She has written nearly a dozen TIME cover stories and interviewed numerous heads of state, including Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
She authored the 2016 best-selling book, Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works.
Before TIME, Newton-Small was a reporter for Bloomberg News where she covered the White House and politics.
She received an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and undergraduate degrees in International Relations and Art History from Tufts University. She is a 2017 Halcyon Incubator fellow, a 2016-2017 New America National Fellow and a 2015 Harvard Institute of Politics fellow. She is the 2016 winner of the prestigious Dirksen Award for congressional reporting and the 2016 Deadline Club award for community service reporting.
