Deryl mckissack biography
Meet The Black Woman Behind The One Of The Country’s Few ....
Deryl mckissack biography
CEO of McKissack & McKissack, Deryl McKissack, 62-year-old started her business with $1,000 now it brings in over $25 million a year. She said: ‘I just had to do this’. Deryl McKissack’s career is a culmination of effort from five generations.
Deryl McKissack is the president and CEO of McKissack & McKissack, the Washington, D.C.-based construction management and design firm behind some of today’s most recognizable buildings from building the Smithsonian African American Museum of History and Culture to repairing the Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson memorials.
McKissack & McKissack legacy
The McKissack’s firm legacy dates back to her great-great grandfather Moses a skilled brick maker originally coming as slave in 1790 to U.S.
His brick-making skills were passed down and cultivated from generation to generation. This prompted two of his grandsons to create a construction company in Tennessee, also called McKissack & McKissack.
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