MLK Breakfast Moves to New Location

 Keynote Speaker

Andrew McCaskill, Nielsen’s senior vice president of Communications and Multicultural Marketing, talks to Grace about the Nielsen report “Young, Connected and Black.” The Skanner Foundation has confirmed Cheryl Grace as its keynote speaker for the 32nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast.

Grace is the Senior Vice President of U.S. Strategic Community Alliances and Consumer Engagement for Nielsen. The Skanner spoke with Grace about the upcoming Breakfast. Read what she had to say.

Nielsen is the global company that measures what consumers watch and what consumers buy. Grace is a highly accomplished thought leader and the visionary behind Nielsen’s African-American Consumer Report. This award-winning report led to the company’s historic creation of Nielsen’s Diversity Insights Series. Each report focuses on the rapidly growing Hispanic, African-American or Asian consumer base. Grace is known for her engaging and refreshing perspective about why we buy what we buy.

New Location

The Skanner Foundation's MLK Breakfast will also be at a new location in 2018.

Red Lion Hotel on the River, Janzten Beach
January 15, 2018, 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
909 N. Hayden Island Dr., Portland OR

Please bring 2 cans of food per person to benefit local families in need.

(Sold Out! Thank you.)

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