- Collection:
- Social Change Collection
- Title:
- Lisa Borders oral history interivew, 2012-02-10
- Creator:
- Borders, Lisa
- Contributor to Resource:
- Newman, Harvey K.
Young, Andrea, 1955- - Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2012-02-10
- Subject:
- City council members
City Planning
Civil rights movement
Business enterprises
Businesswomen
Campaign management
Political activists
Politics
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
Coca-Cola Company - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
digital audio formats - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Lisa Borders is the former president and CEO of Time's UP and former president of the Women's National Basketball Association. She is the granddaughter fo civil rights leader Reverend William Holmes Borders, and she herself has served as president of the Atlanta city council. She ran for mayor of Atlanta in 2009 and was the vice president of global community affairs at the Coca-Cola Company. In 2018, she was named one of the 25 Women Changing the World by People magazine.
In this interview, Lisa Borders discusses her grandfather's activism, her own work with public service, and the leadership of Atlanta. She talks about the world of marketing, finance, and city administration. She discusses the development of the Beltline, the impact of other cities on the growth of Atlanta, the Grady Hospital healthcare system, and the MARTA. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/schange/id/862
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/schange:862/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Borders, Lisa interviewed by Andrea Young and Harvey Newman, February 10, 2012, Harvey Newman Papers, Social Change Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Extent:
- 01:18:11
- Original Collection:
- Making of Modern Atlanta Interviews
Harvey Newman Papers
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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