Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans LaTanya Wright Channel
LaTanya Channel represents SBA as the State Director of U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) Tennessee District Office. With a staff based in Nashville and Memphis, the Tennessee District facilitates loans to small businesses through lending institutions; advocates federal government contracting for all small businesses; and works with local communities in all 95 Tennessee counties on entrepreneurial development and growth opportunities.
LaTanya came to the SBA in 2005, after having served at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington DC in management advisory roles on human resources, large scale agency reorganizations, and department-wide civil rights and EEO matters. Prior to joining the Tennessee District Office, LaTanya served as the Senior Advisor in SBA’s Office of Government Contracting and 8(a) Business Development and also as the Chief of Certification for the HUBZone and Small Disadvantage Business (SDB) certification programs – all at SBA’s Washington DC headquarters office.
LaTanya is a “Native Washingtonian” – she was born and raised in Washington, DC and has family roots in the South – Southern Maryland – where her family served as farmers for over 6 generations and many still live on the family farm today. After graduating from Rutgers-Newark School of Law, LaTanya passed both the Maryland and New Jersey bar exams and then began providing legal representation and counsel to small business owners.
LaTanya earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont California and her law degree from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark.
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