Mississippi Business Journal » Mississippi First http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Rachel Canter on doing the right thing http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/01/rachel-canter-on-doing-the-right-thing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rachel-canter-on-doing-the-right-thing http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/01/rachel-canter-on-doing-the-right-thing/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:27:25 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=68975 Rachel Canter is executive director of Mississippi First. A Starkville native, she has a B.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Q —How did Mississippi First get its start? A —In 2002, Sanford Johnson, my co-founder, and I each had summer internships in Jackson. We would [...]

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