CHICAGO (WLS) — Several Chicagoans who aspire to have careers in the finance industry were invited to do the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
“To be standing there and to be able to experience this, it’s just amazing, to be honest,” said Greenwood Project CEO Kwesi Smith.
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It was an extraordinary start to the day.
“I don’t think it’s sunk in that I’m doing this interview now. It was a surreal experience, I will say,” said Greenwood Project Scholar Kyra French.
French was among the seven scholars and two alumni of the Greenwood Project to take part Tuesday morning.
The Greenwood Project is a Chicago-based organization that introduces Black and Brown college students to the possibility of working in the world of finance.
‘Walking out onto the New York Stock Exchange, we realized we were probably the most diversity the floor has had in a minute,” …