We are proud to announce the support of MBP Gale A. Brewer, Manhattan Borough President for the 2nd African Union Business Expo to be held on 11/15/2016 MIST Harlem from 10am -7pm

We are proud to announce the support of MBP Gale A. Brewer, Manhattan Borough President for the 2nd African Union Business Expo to be held on 11/15/2016 MIST Harlem from 10am -7pm. Register to win up to 1,000.00! at

at http://africanunionexpo.org/events/african-union-expo-2016-nyc-harlem-on-11152016-from-10am-7pm/

or email info@africanunionexpo.com or phone 646-502-9778 Ext. 8002 to the attend or to request further  information

follow: #AfricanUnionExpo2016

This year will feature 2 new events:

• Go Africa Startup Contest (for entrepreneurs, startups and small companies)
  • General category
    • 10 min presentation of your business with 5 min Q&A from the Audience and Judges:
    • 1,000 cash (First Prize)
    • 250 Gift Card (Second Prize)
    • 150 Gift Card (Third Prize)
  • Innovation & idea Category
  • Contestant has an innovation or idea that is in the incubation, development stage
    • 10 min presentation of your business with 5 min Q&A from the Audience and Judges:
    • 150 Gift Card (First Prize)
    • 100 Gift Card (Second Prize)
    • 75 Gift Card (Third Prize)

Contestant, Individual or Business can only compete and/or win in one of the categories but not both.

• Business Review (business plan review and financing, planning assessment) Featuring the following:
  • Individual planning and assessment with Go Africa Capital LLC and a financial institution for your business or startup.
  • Individualized scoring and funding proposal created for your business

• If the funding proposal is accepted by all parties involved, funding will be provided within 60 – 120 days.

• See (business Review Section for more details on the criteria, and other parameters.

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• Gale A. Brewer is the 27th Manhattan Borough President, responsible for advising the Mayor and City Council on borough concerns, commenting on all land-use matters in the borough, advocating for the borough in the municipal budget process, and appointing members of Manhattan’s 12 Community Boards. 
• The Borough President also chairs the Borough Board, made up of City Council Members and Chairs from the Community Boards, and the Borough Services Cabinet, composed of senior officials from City agencies delivering services in the borough.

Ms. Brewer previously served on the City Council for 12 years, from 2002 through 2013, representing the 6th Council District which includes most of the Upper West Side and northern Clinton.

• As Councilmember, she successfully passed legislation guaranteeing paid sick leave for most hourly employees, compelling landlords to fix repeat violations, requiring all City data be published online, and the nation’s first law protecting domestic workers.
• She was the founding chair of the Council’s Technology Committee in 2002.
• Immediately prior to her election to the City Council, Brewer served as Project Manager for the NYC Nonprofits Project at CUNY’s Graduate Center, and before that worked for the Telesis Corporation, a private firm that builds affordable housing in New York City.

• Prior to that non-profit and private-sector experience, Brewer served in City government in various roles, including as…
• New York City Deputy Public Advocate for Intergovernmental Affairs under Mark Green (1994-1998).
• Director of Mayor Dinkins’ Federal Office in New York City, managing the administration’s legislative agenda in Washington and a technical assistance program to help community-based organizations obtain federal funds (1990 to 1994).
• Executive Director of the Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women (concurrent with the Federal Office, from 1993 to 1994).
• Chief of Staff to West Side Councilmember Ruth W. Messinger– before Messinger was, herself, elected Manhattan Borough President (1979-1989).
• Brewer also served on the staff of Lt. Governor Mary Anne Krupsak, the first women elected statewide in New York in 1974 (under Gov. Hugh Carey) and first served in government in the City Parks Department during the Lindsay administration.
• Brewer has an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and she did her undergraduate work at Columbia University and Bennington College.
• She co-teaches a class in urban policy each spring with former Borough President Messinger as part of Hunter College’s Public Service Scholar program, and has taught urban affairs at other area colleges, including Barnard, Baruch, Brooklyn and Queens Colleges.
• Brewer is married to Cal Snyder; they live on the Upper West Side. Together they have raised many foster children.