Carla Harris is not only the Vice Chairman of Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, she's also the former Chair of both the Morgan Stanley Foundation and President Obama's National Women’s Business Council as well as a celebrated author and gospel singer. Carla sits down for an intimate fireside chat to discuss her life, career, and the wisdom she's gathered along the way. Carla will be in conversation with The Washington Post's Tracy Jan.
Panel Discussion
Carla's Pearls: How To Rise And Stay There From Wall Street's Leading Woman
Meet The Speakers

Carla Harris is a Vice Chairman, Managing Director and Senior Client
Advisor at Morgan Stanley. She is responsible for increasing client
connectivity and penetration to enhance revenue generation across the
firm. She formerly headed the Emerging Manager Platform, the equity
capital markets effort for the consumer and retail industries and was
responsible for Equity Private Placements. In her 30 year career, Ms.
Harris has had extensive industry experiences in the technology, media,
retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare
sectors. In August 2013, Carla Harris was appointed by President Barack
Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council. For more than a
decade, Ms. Harris was a senior member of the equity syndicate desk and
executed such transactions as initial public offerings for UPS, Martha
Stewart Living Omnimedia, Ariba, Redback, the General Motors sub-IPO of
Delphi Automotive, and the $3.2 Billion common stock transaction for
Immunex Corporation, one of the largest biotechnology common stock
transactions in U.S. history. Ms. Harris was named to Fortune
Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate
America”, Fortune’s Most Influential List, U. S. Bankers Top 25 Most
Powerful Women in Finance (2009, 2010, 2011), Black Enterprise’s Top 75
Most Powerful Women in Business (2017), and “Top 75 African Americans
on Wall Street”, and to Essence Magazine’s list of “The 50 Women Who are
Shaping the World”.

Tracy Jan covers the intersection of race and the economy for The Washington Post, a beat she launched in December 2016 that encompasses racial economic disparities, immigration, housing policy and other stories that hold businesses and politicians accountable for their decisions and promises. She previously was a Washington-based national political reporter for the Boston Globe, where she covered the 2016 and 2012 presidential campaigns. During her 12 years at the Globe, Jan had also written about health and science policy, higher education, and Boston Public Schools. She started her career as a crime and courts reporter at the Oregonian and was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, as well as a Fulbright Fellow in Taiwan. She has reported from Taipei, Beijing, Tibet and along the Yangtze River.