| Other author/creator | Jones, Sandra Miller, 1946- interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Stearns, Scott, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title |
History Makers video oral history with Sandra Miller Jones |
| Portion of title |
Sandra Miller Jones |
| Abstract |
Marketing executive Sandra Miller Jones was born on August 6, 1946 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After graduating from Howard University, she became the first African American woman to graduate from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business upon receiving her M.B.A. degree in 1971. That same year, Jones was hired as the first African American woman manager at Quaker Oats Company. In 1978, she founded Segmented Marketing Services, Inc. (SMSi), a national marketing company that services Fortune 500 corporations. In 2013, Jones founded SMSi Health Insurance Solutions to provide affordable health insurance for underserved consumers. She served as an adjunct professor of marketing at Wake Forest University's Babcock School of Management. Jones helped establish the National Black MBA Association and the Chicago Minority Purchasing Council. She served as board chair of the Jack and Jill of America Foundation's WIN (We Invest Now) for Tomorrow. She was board chair of the Winston-Salem YMCA. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer |
Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Bermuda Run, North Carolina 2014 August 14. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2014.214 HistoryMakers |
