Documenting the Experiences of the Underserved

By Mike Switzer

Published November 11, 2020 at 5:30 AM EST

The community and workplace experiences of minorities, both sex and race-based, as collected and displayed in libraries and museums are often under-represented. But new grant money is now available to these institutions to help alleviate this situation.

Mike Switzer interviews Kerri Forrest, director of Lowcountry programs at the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation in Charleston, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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