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����Ӱҵ University’s Supplier Diversity Program Manager Veronica Cook-Euell has received the 2012 Minority Business Enterprise Advocacy award from Black Pages Ohio. Cook-Euell was awarded for helping to build business-to-business relationships throughout Ohio, and for her encouragement of multicultural partnerships and commitment to growing emerging and small businesses.

Black Pages Ohio, established in 1991 as ����ӰҵCleveland Black Pages, is a minority-business listing and resource guide for Ohio communities. It was the first African-American minority business directory ever published in Northeast Ohio.

Cook-Euell received the award on May 10 during a gala introducing  ����ӰҵSummit magazine, a publication of Black Pages Ohio that is sponsored by the City of Akron.

“It is truly an honor to be recognized for one’s passion,” says Cook-Euell. “At ����Ӱҵ, we continue to work toward achieving our goal to promote an inclusive supplier environment, and I am very happy with the achievements we have recorded. To be recognized by industry members is a testament to the comprehensive and strong supplier diversity program that we have at ����Ӱҵ.”

Cook-Euell is responsible for developing strategies to increase minority business representation in securing contracts at ����Ӱҵ. She assists ����Ӱҵ in diverse spending with minority and women-owned businesses and serves as the university’s equal employment opportunity (EEO) officer monitoring minority business enterprise/encouraging diversity, growth and equity (MBE/EDGE) spending.

For more information about ����Ӱҵ’s Supplier Diversity program, contact Cook-Euell at vcook3@kent.edu or 330-672-9195, or visit the Supplier Diversity website.