Jennifer Litwak Jennifer Litwak

Diversity is coming to commercial real estate. While more and more women are entering the industry, a lot say that they “fell into the business.” CREW San Diego wants to change that. The organization has launched a new program called Bring a Girl to CRE Day program, which will introduce girls to the industry at a young age. The goal is to give girls the option of choosing and preparing for the industry to ultimately promote diversity.

Commercial real estate is not something that young women learn about in school. In addition, there are so few women in high-profile, leadership roles in this industry,” Jennifer Litwak, CREW San Diego foundation delegate and executive director of Housing On Merit, tells GlobeSt.com. “Only 35% of CRE professionals are female and of that, only 9% hold C-suite positions. Women cannot aspire to something if they don’t know that it exists. CREW Network is at the forefront of achieving gender equity and greater diversity in the commercial real estate industry by transforming the industry by advancing women globally.”

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.

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