Building Bridges Summit Held March 20th

The Florence Chamber held its 2023 Building Bridges Summit on Monday, March 20th at The Florence Center. More than 100 local community participants were welcomed by Florence City Mayor Teresa Myers-Ervin, Les Echols from the Florence Chamber and representatives from Assurant.

Several speakers addressed the day-long gathering, including Dr. Louis Venters from Francis Marion University and keynote speaker Mike Young, Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the Center for Community Health Alignment and PASOs at the University of South Carolina.

Later, during the program’s women in leadership panel, Brenda Perez, Hannah Davis, Adrian Peguese Carter and Doris Lockhart also share best practices.

The mission of Building Bridges is to enable our community to address diverse issues through a process of changing attitudes & hearts through education and issue awareness.

The Florence Chamber program was sponsored by Assurant, HopeHealth, Spherion and iHeart Media.

To see more photos, from the day click here.