College Students Discuss Economic Empowerment At 2018 A.G. Gaston Conference

By Ariel Worthy
The Birmingham Times

Events geared toward young entrepreneurs were a major part of the 14th annual A.G. Gaston Conference, held Tuesday and Wednesday in Birmingham.

The conference, named for the iconic Birmingham businessman, offered more than a dozen workshops, seminars and speeches on economic empowerment, with several that emphasized young businesspeople, such as a panel Wednesday titled “College Student Perspective on Entrepreneurship.”

“There are several concerns within business entrepreneurship and the development of young people that we need to talk about,” said Roland Adams, a 21-year-old public administration student at Samford University. “I’m glad they asked us as college students to speak on it, because we’re the ones dealing with it firsthand.”Adams was joined on the panel by Forrest Satterfield, founder of Satterfield Technologies and a biomedical engineering student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Marlow Rogers, a student at Lawson State Community College.

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