Mother Love Featured Panelist To Speak On Your Employees' Health Matters - It Impacts Your Bottom Line! At the African American Business Summit 2005

Mother Love Featured Panelist To Speak On Your Employees' Health Matters - It Impacts Your Bottom Line! At the African American Business Summit 2005

Panelists Mother Love, Jerry Anderson - African American Diabetes Task Force, Asha Jayasinghe - American Heart Association and Josie Diaz - Desert AIDS Project and Moderator Dr. Joyce Richey - American Diabetes Association/Keck School of Medicine will speak on Health issues effecting employers today.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 18, 2005

Mother Love will be a featured panelist on Your Employees' Health Matters - It Impacts Your Bottom Line! which focuses on educating business owners on diseases and illness that significantly impact the African American community and providing concrete strategies for implementing preventive measures in the workplace, at the Wells Fargo sponsored African American Business Summit 2005. Themed BUSINESS REDEFINED: An Extraordinary Experience for Exceptional Business People, this four-day event is scheduled June 23rd - 26th at the Westin Mission Hills Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage (Palm Springs), California.

Featured panelists include: Moderator, Dr. Joyce Richey - American Diabetes Association/Keck School of Medicine, Jerry Anderson - African American Diabetes Task Force, Asha Jayasinghe - American Heart Association and Josie Diaz - Desert AIDS Project.

Mother Love is recognized internationally as an expert in affairs of the heart, family relationships and as a Diabetes Advocate and other issues affecting women and children's health. Since her career began in radio in 1989, she has been on a roll. She made many television appearances – from sitcoms to game shows and has appeared in 12 films.

Currently Mother Love is writing her third book about her quest for a healthier lifestyle, due in January 2006 from Atria Books (a division of Simon & Shuster). Her first two books, Listen Up Girlfriends (St. Martin's Press) and Forgive or Forget (HarperCollins), are still hits with her "Babies" as she affectionately calls her fans. She has received numerous honors and citations from her 1999 induction into The Women in Radio and Television Hall of Fame.

Mother Love is currently the Co-Host of the first television program, dLife TV, on CNBC dedicated to the 18 million people who are managing diabetes. She is a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., and is Co-Chair of the African American Task Force of the American Diabetes Association in LA.

For registration and more information regarding the African American Business Summit 2005, please visit www. aabs2005.com or call (323) 299-6000.

PRESS CREDENTIALS: Adrienne S. Lamm - PR, Media and Marketing Director for the African American Business Summit 2005 - (323)299-6000 ext. 107

About the African American Business Summit 2005

The African American Business Summit 2005 - BUSINESS REDEFINED: An Extraordinary Experience for Exceptional Business People - educates, motivates and empowers entrepreneurs through powerful general sessions, targeted workshops and ample opportunities for direct interaction with corporate partners.

The African American Business Summit 2005 will be held from Thursday, June 23 to Sunday June 26, 2005 at the Westin Mission Hills Resort and Spa, 71-333 Dinah Shore Drive, Rancho Mirage (Palm Springs), CA 92270.

The African American Business Summit 2005 Co-Chairs are Jaci and Morris L. Reid, a dynamic husband and wife team known for their successful fusion of the business, political and philanthropic worlds.

Attendees will have access to expert-led sessions, spectacular keynotes, solution workshops; a Business Exchange and Expo that will showcase and provide demonstrations from over 25 corporate partners and outstanding "indulgencies" - such as the TPC Foundation Golf Game, The Turning Point Magazine/Wells Fargo Living History Makers $5,000 Entrepreneur Award, the "Wave of Praise Gospel Brunch" featuring pop and gospel singing sensation, Howard Hewett...and more! More than 800 professionals from all over the United States are expected to attend the Summit. For AABS 2005 Registration: www. AABS2005.com

About Presenting Partner Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $436 billion in assets, providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance to more than 23 million customers from more than 6,000 stores and the internet (wellsfargo. com) across North America and elsewhere internationally. Wells Fargo Bank, N. A. is the only bank in the United States to receive the highest possible credit rating, "Aaa," from Moody's

Investors Service.

AABS 2005 Partners and Sponsors: (Partial Listings)

The African American Business Summit 2005, BUSINESS REDEFINED: An Extraordinary Experience for Exceptional Business People, Presenting Partner is Wells Fargo and is hosted by Turning Point Magazine, The African American Chamber of Commerce Palm Springs, and the TPC Foundation, Inc. Partners include: ampm Convenience Stores, Fox Entertainment Group, Union Bank, Focal Point Media, Nike, Accubuilt, Attain Design, Warm Spirit, Toyota, Curtis Moring Insurance, Areli Web Design, Boeing, Pepie Designs, The California

Endowment.

National Magazine of the African American Business Summit 2005

Rolling Out Magazine

Official Newspaper of the African American Business Summit 2005

The Los Angeles Sentinel

Palm Springs/Coachella Valley Newspaper of the African American Business Summit 2005

Press Enterprise

AABS 2005 Media Partners (Partial List) : KPSE - UPN 13 Palm Springs, African American Golfer's Digest, Save the Date Media Group, LLC, KURS 1040 AM "The Soul of San Diego" Gospel Music, BlackNews. com, BlackApolis Media Group, Urban Insider/UrbanInsider. com, Urban Leadership Magazine, News 23 - the - Edge Cable/Satellite Networks, BMORENEWS, Diversity City Media, InterServeNetworks - Jim Neusom, Ebony Cactus Magazine, iZania, The Network Journal, The Columbus Times Newspaper serving Georgia and Alabama, NCM - Promoting Ethnic Media Nationwide, Black Star News, Comcast Cable/CNN Local Edition, Soul of America, Women's Calendar/Women's Radio Networks, Talk Black Radio, Jericho Broadcasting, Emerging Minds/Emergingminds. org, Roland Holmes, Ph. D. - "The Voice of Jazz", The Houston Sun, Inland Empire Community Events, Connecting Bay Area Professionals - www. infoBayArea. com, Inglewood Today Magazine, The (Sacramento) Observer Media Group, SoulValues. com, Black Biz Wiz, The Valder BeeBe Show, The LA Watts Times, Black Voice News, Sisters In Business, Black Meetings & Tourism, Ask Deanna!, The Griot, Black Star News, Personal Wealth Journal, The Wright Place TV Show, Recycling Black Dollars, The LA Wave Newspapers, San Diego News Link Newspaper, Virtually Black. com, Onyx Woman Magazine, USC - Small Business Development Office, The Dr. Maxine Radio Show.

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