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College of Arts and Sciences senior Juliet Zawedde was one of 20 students invited to meet with entrepreneur and investor Warren Buffett at his Berkshire Hathaway corporate headquarters in Omaha, Neb., last month.
Zawedde joined undergraduates from Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia, Fordham, Dartmouth and University of Virginia in a two-hour Q&A session with Buffett, and later a three-hour dinner where the students were able to chat informally with Buffett.
The visit to Omaha — which also included tours of Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries and major corporations such as Union Pacific and TD Ameritrade, and a dinner with prominent business executives — was organized by Smart Woman Securities (SWS), a not-for-profit organization focused on investment education for undergraduate women. The Boston College SWS chapter was co-founded two years ago by Zawedde, who is the chapter’s chief development officer, “to generate a supportive and collaborative environment that will enable more women to become financially self-sufficient.”