JAHLEEKA MORRIS is a senior stock plans analyst with Yahoo!. She was born and raised in Boston Ma., where she grew up in an underserved neighborhood where poverty and crime consumed most of the people living in the area. She moved to Georgia when she was 13 years old with her grandmother and decided to attend college to gain higher education. She attended Georgia State University where she acquired a degree in finance, marketing and African American studies. She worked as a bank manager for five years and then got into the stock industry where she excelled her career as a stockbroker. In 2015, she decided to take her expertise in house for Yahoo as their compensation equity analyst. She was the first to graduate from college in her family and she hopes to inspire those who aspire to be great.

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