- March 26, 2025
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Karen Mills is welcomed to the stage.
Karen Gordon Mills speaks to the importance of small businesses to the economy.
Karen Mills speaks about the problems she believes are affecting small businesses.
Manatee Chamber of Commerce president Jacki Dezelski interviews Karen Mills
Karen Mills fields questions from Sarasota Chamber of Commerce president Heather Kasten.
Lora Wey, Ron Koepsel, Linda Whitacre and Mitzie Henson
Manatee Chamber of Commerce president Jacki Dezelski, Miqui Lora, Larry Thompson and Sarasota Chamber of Commerce president Heather Kasten
Mitzie Henson and Chris Cremer
Town Hall Chair Ashley Brown welcomes Karen Mills to a VIP crowd.
Karen Mills talks with VIP members.
Chris Cremer, Sarasota Chamber of Commerce president Heather Kasten, Manatee Chamber of Commerce president Jacki Dezelski and Town Hall Chair Ashley Brown
Bev Fisher, Brinda Pola and Linda Whitacre
Business expert Karen Mills made her way to Sarasota for the latest in the Ringling College Library Association lecture series at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on March 15.
Mills, who served as administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013 and works as a senior fellow at the Harvard Business School, met hundreds of attendees at the Van Wezel for a morning and afternoon lecture presentations. Mills spoke to her time working with the Obama administration and gave her thoughts on what regulation measures work for small businesses.
Sarasota Chamber of Commerce President Heather Kasten and Manatee Chamber of Commerce President Jacki Dezelski then interviewed Mills to round out the presentation.
