We Are Your Partners
CUP not only introduces you to inspiring leaders but helps you to become one, offers you the opportunity to give back to your community, and connects you to like‐minded people so that we can all be more powerful.
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Encouraging Diversity
CUP secures strategic board and career placements for our highly motivated and qualified members.
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Empowering Leaders
CUP prepares talented, visionary minority and women professionals to become powerful civic and political leaders through our Fellows program.
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We Are Your Partners:
The Council of Urban Professionals (CUP) connects, empowers and mobilizes the next generation of diverse business and civic leaders. Founded in 2007, CUP is a 21st century leadership development organization with over 1,500 individual members, a national network of 20,000, and 65 corporate partners spanning the financial services, law, media & entertainment, digital & technology, non-profit and public sectors, healthcare, and consumer packaged goods. Through a series of forums, leadership development programs, and peer networks, CUP empowers aspiring diverse professionals to develop connections, opportunities, and expertise that best position them for top leadership positions, resulting in transformative impact on our communities.
Jason M. Clark – CUP Fellows Spotlight
What is your occupation and how did you come to work in this field? I am an Assistant Attorney General in the Litigation Bureau of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s Office. My job is to represent agents of the State of New York against constitutional claims in federal court. As an “AAG,” I have aread more
GEMS – Non Profit Partner Spotlight
GEMS is an acronym for Girls Educational and Mentoring Services. GEMS is the only organization in New York State specifically designed to serve girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking. GEMS was founded in 1998 by Rachel Lloyd, a young woman who had been commercially sexually exploited as aread more
Xerox – Corporate Partner Spotlight
What is Xerox’s approach to diversity? Xerox approaches diversity as not just a commitment, but a core company value, meaning our approach to inclusion goes beyond race and gender, and values differences in age, outlook, cultural background, lifestyle, physical ability, and sexual orientation. In a business like Xerox, whose lifeblood is fresh ideas, this variety ofread more
Fernando A. Bohorquez, Jr.
Fernando A. Bohorquez, Jr. is an equity litigation partner with Baker & Hostetler LLP's New York office. He is the youngest Latino equity partner in the nationwide 800 strong attorney law firm and the only minority equity partner in the New York office.read more
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Ernst & Young – Corporate Partner Spotlight