Valerie D. White, Senior Executive Director of LISC-NY, reflects on her long career and taking on her current role just weeks after the COVID-19 shutdown began.

“As our communities are faced with the ever-growing issues of rising costs and falling sales, the impact on minority-owned businesses cannot be overstated”, said Valerie White, Senior Executive Director of LISC NY. White and others spoke with Queens business owners who gathered at a “Minority-Owned Small Business Listening Tour” event with local elected officials and …

Several minority small business owners in Jamaica met with elected officials on April 4 to address the economic challenges facing their businesses and discuss what can be done for future growth as they struggle to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and continued inflation. Valerie White, senior executive director of LISC NY, said that as communities …