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Anguillian In Palm Beach Excels
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An Anguillian young lady, Gracelyn Hodge, has excelled in the United States where she is a partner of Ernst & Young, LLP. She was promoted as a partner of the company with effect from July 2006.
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Gracelyn Hodge
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Ernst & Young LLP (EY), voted as one of the USA’s best 100 companies to work for every year for the past eight years by Forbes Magazine, is primarily an accounting, auditing and tax service provider with annual revenues of approximately $18 billion per year. It has 114,000 employees in 140 countries.
Gracelyn is one of a few black women partners in the firm. Ernst & Young has over 2,000 partners in the USA and less than 1% of them are women of colour.
Gracelyn started with Ernst & Young as a staff member in the Los Angeles Office after she graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelors degree in Accounting in 1991. Gracelyn obtained her Masters in Global Management in 2004 from the University of Phoenix. She is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the States of California and Florida. She now resides in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Gracelyn Hodge made the following comments:
“Achieving this career milestone is energising and rewarding. It has been like a gust of wind under my wings! I plan to keep soaring to the new heights with God’s grace and direction.
“But it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge that this was only possible first because of God’s grace, second because of the strong values and work ethic obtained from my mother, Lenora Hodge, third because of the love and support I get unwaveringly from my husband, John Reece and, lastly, the inspiration I get from my two wonderful children.
“I am honoured and humbled to be admitted as a partner in this great firm; but I am cognizant that this personal accomplishment brings lots of public responsibility to work in unison with my fellow partners in striving to increase the number of women and diverse people of all ethnicities, nationalities and religion so that we can continue to be the employer of choice in the USA and around the world.”
Gracelyn, using the motto of the National Association of Black Accountants, added: I intend to Lift as I Climb.