OCTC Hosting Women's History Event

by Bernie Hale

Owensboro, KY (03/18/2021) — Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) WISE (Women in Support of Education) group is hosting Olga McKissic for a virtual event in honor of Women's History month. The presentation "Celebrating Black Women Pioneers" will take place on Thursday, March 25 at 1 p.m. via zoom https://zoom.us/j/94540037383?pwd=Nnhwa3BhVm9vVXhLemU5WUp0akR2UT09.

Olga McKissic was born and raised in Owensboro, KY. She is a graduate of Owensboro High School and earned a bachelor's degree from Spaulding University in and a Master of Theology degree from Campbellsville University. She worked for BellSouth for thirty years and retired as a Corporate Trainer and Sales Team Manager in Business Marketing in Louisville, Kentucky. She then moved into the financial sector and was name the Operations Manager at Marshall Capital Management Group. In 2015, McKissic moved back to Owensboro and is currently an associate minister at Fourth Street Baptist Church, serves as the Executive Director of the H.L. Neblett Community Center and is Director of Western Academy at The Neblett Center.

OCTC's WISE group is an organization within the college, that raises funds and awareness for women's issues. They award scholarships annually through the OCTC Scholarship Committee. For more information about WISE or the event please contact Julie.Embry@kctcs.edu.

Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.

The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.

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