Archive for July, 2007

CulturalConnect founder, Sumaya Kazi, was recently featured on CNN’s Young People Who Rock (for video, click here). The program, anchored by Nicole Lapin (seated with Sumaya on Larry King’s set), highlights inspiring young professionals who are doing extraordinary things, and the CulturalConnect team is proud that Sumaya, 25, was recognized for her outstanding achievement at such a young age. The CulturalConnect’s Web sites have received more than 12 million hits in less than two years, and we are proud to have readers in over 100 countries.

Thank you, readers, for your support, and thanks to all the young professionals who have taken the time to interview with us and let us profile them.

Forbes magazine has compiled a list of the top 10 cities for young professionals. The magazine looked at which cities paid young professionals the best, which had the most young and unmarried people, which had the best business opportunities, and which were cities where graduates of elite universities ended up. For the complete article, click here. For a slide show of the top cities, click here. And the top 10 cities are:

1. New York City
2. San Francisco
3. Atlanta
4. Los Angeles
5. Washington, D.C.
6. Boston
7. Seattle
8. Minneapolis
9. Philadelphia
10. Denver