After the Dust Settled
Author Bio(s)
After surviving the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York City, Jareau Almeyda went on to become an enterprise level online-business professional with focus on business-to-business digital marketing. He has helped numerous global billion dollar organizations strategize, implement, and manage online business and online marketing efforts. He completed his BA in information systems at Pace University in New York City, an Executive MBA with postgraduate work in international business at Florida International University, and is currently working on his 3rd year of doctoral studies in information systems at Nova Southeastern University. His research interest is in gender diversity in the computer science talent pipeline.
Talk Description
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, Jareau Almeyda was sitting at his desk on the 85th floor of the World Trade Center in New York City when the first plane crashed just a few floors above him. In this firsthand account, Almeyda recounts how the lessons learned during an hour-long decent through the exit stairwell helped him survive, and how those lessons led to his years-long pursuit of higher education.
Recommended Citation
Almeyda, Jareau, "After the Dust Settled" (2018). TEDxNSU. 35.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tedxnsu/35
