Obama Administration and Rutgers Business School to Host Urban Entrepreneurship Summit

Entrepreneurship plays a major role in creating jobs and economic opportunity for people in the United States.  The Obama Administration has and continues to be committed to creating public-private partnerships to support current entrepreneurs and spark a new generation of urban entrepreneurs.

In effort to support entrepreneurship and economic growth,  the White House Business Council, Office of Public Engagement and Domestic Policy Council are partnering with the Rutgers Business School’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED), Startup America Partnership, Mayor Cory Booker of Newark,  Russell Simmons, the Fund for Public Advocacy – Office of the New York City Public Advocate, Operation HOPE, the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), for a day-long summit on ways to strengthen urban entrepreneurship.

The event will take place 8:30 a.m., June 6 at Rutger’s Paul Robeson Campus Center. Speakers and panelist include, Mayor of Newark, Cory Booker, Marie Johns, Deputy Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration, White House Senior Advisor to the President for Urban Affairs, Derek Douglas, Founder of Rush Communications, Russell Simmons, and other representatives from the participating organizations.

This event is open to pre-credentialed media and is invitation only. However, there will be an online component for the public to view the events online.

Media interested in covering the event should email:  media_affairs@who.eop.gov

 For more information about CUEED visit http://www.business.rutgers.edu/cueed

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