This is a roundup of current and upcoming virtual calendar events available in South Florida; includes family, community, entertainment, social and holiday activities.
Veteran-owned businesses in Florida
Eric “Doc” Wright Founder/CEO, Vets2PM, Indialantic
During his six years in the Navy, Wright learned how to weld, lead and follow commands but when he got out of the Navy in the 1990s, the Gulf War veteran struggled to find his way in the civilian world. “I could not speak the civilian language of management,” he says. “I didn’t know how to talk about jobs. I didn’t know how to talk about my ability to plan and organize and control things. I didn’t know how to talk about employees, other than ‘subordinates’ and they just don’t talk like that in the civilian workforce.”
Thirty-year-old medical student Emmanuel McNeely considers his life goal and God-given calling to work toward gender and racial diversity in medicine.
“That way we can help eliminate health disparities and really improve health outcomes for all races,” said McNeely, a 2012 graduate of Palm Beach Atlantic University currently pursuing his doctorate in medicine at the Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine.
As an African American med student planning to specialize in orthopedic surgery, McNeely believes his career ambitions are a direct result of a surgeon who took the time to mentor him. He has co-founded The Dr. M.D. Project to provide more minority students with guidance in the field. The project earned McNeely the 2021 Young Alumni Award from the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU).
Two Holocaust education centers at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton are hosting virtual programs this month and throughout the spring semester.