How to Take Back Our Community And Create Person-Centered Community Centers

Yvonne D. Nelson, Ph.D  was raised into entrepreneurship.  Her uncle was one of Milwaukee's first black businessman in the 1940's.  She moved to the south from Milwaukee, WI to work in the family business which had relocated to central Mississippi.  She returned to school got her Batchelor's Degree in Business Administration & Finance from LeMoyne-Owen College in 2003.  She then enrolled and received a Masters Degree in Business Administration from AIU in 2004.  She then enrolled in the institutions dual degree program and received a second Masters in Marketing in 2006.  Yvonne then enrolled in Capella University's online doctorate program and received her doctorate in "Organization and Management" with a specialization in Leadership.  She then started the DIMANS program which focuses on youth intervention and development programs.