Upcoming EventsApril 2024
Carrie Bernans
Thursday, April 25, 2024
University Club of Memphis, 1346 Central Ave. Memphis, TN 38104
Registration Deadline - Friday, April 19, 2024Register NowCarrie was in Marvel's phenomenal Black Panther, Wakanda Forever and Avengers End Game as a Dora Milijae warrior fighting for Wakanda alongside of the Black Panther. She appeared in NOPE, Emancipation, Marvel’s Avengers Infinity War, X-Men, The Dark Phoenix, SWAT, CBS Seal Team, one of the stars in Ultimate TAG on FOX and more. She also has received more than 20 awards for her 1st documentary, The Tale of Two Carrie’s based on her namesake grandma’s upbringing in the Mississippi Delta. Carrie, like the Black Panther, “…has a good heart, and gives us a real hero[ine] —strong and honorable and, when possible, even filled with grace.”
Carrie was born in Virginia and grew up with a single-parent teenage-mother and an early nomadic lifestyle living in Panama, the townships along the Eastern U.S. coast and settled down in her latter teenage years and attended college in Memphis, TN. She started her nonprofit CB Seed Foundation 6 years ago to address the needs of children living in poverty similar to her upbringings. Carrie calls Memphis home where she ran track at her Alma Mater, the University of Memphis, Carrie is the featured alumnae in the May 2018 University of Memphis Magazine and was awarded outstanding alumni in 2022.
May 2024
Economic Club of Memphis 50th Anniversary Wine Dinner featuring Rob McMillan Saturday, May 4, 2024 - Reception 6 pm, Dinner & Wine Tasting 7 pm Hilton Memphis, 939 Ridge Lake Blvd, Memphis, TN 38120 Registration Deadline - Friday, April 26, 2024 Register NowJoin the Economic Club of Memphis for a festive wine dinner honoring our founding members and celebrating our membership over the last five decades. Rob is EVP and Founder of Silicon Valley Bank's Wine Division. He is the only banker to be named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the US Wine Industry and has been authoring Silicon Valley Bank’s State of the Wine Industry Report for close on 20 years. He is the founder of the Bank’s wine division, which is now recognized as the leading provider of financial services to the US fine wine business. A frequent media commentator, lecturer at several West Coast universities and regular blogger, Rob’s informed opinions are trusted by wine producers, importers and financiers alike. He has served on a variety of boards over the course of his career in diverse industries and continues to do so today within the wine space. Registration is open, please register now! |