[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 46 (Tuesday, April 9, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E384]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  RECOGNIZING DR. ANITA B. ENRIQUEZ ON RECEIVING THE 2013 U.S. SMALL 
  BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION'S WOMEN IN BUSINESS CHAMPION AWARD FOR GUAM

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                       HON. MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO

                                of guam

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, April 9, 2013

  Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commend and congratulate 
Dr. Anita Borja Enriquez on being awarded the 2013 U.S. Small Business 
Administration's Women in Business Champion Award for Guam. Dr. Anita 
Borja Enriquez is Dean of the School of Business and Public 
Administration at the University of Guam.
   Dr. Enriquez periodically serves as Acting Senior Vice President, 
Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Guam. In addition to 
this role, she is the Executive Director of the Pacific Center for 
Economic Initiatives and the principal owner of Strategic 
Organizational Solutions, a project consulting company, which provides 
research and strategic planning facilitation.
   Dr. Enriquez grew up in a large and modest family in the southern 
village of Agat. She helped support her family by assisting at her 
mother's small grocery store. Early in her life, she gained 
independence and worked hard to achieve success. At the young age of 
19, Dr. Enriquez established her own bookkeeping business, providing 
services to businesses on Guam; this was the first business she would 
establish on her own.
   A strong proponent of economic development, Dr. Enriquez established 
the UOG Pacific Center for Economic Initiatives in 2006, and has 
secured over $1 million in technical assistance grants from the U.S. 
Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration. These funds 
helped to establish the Guam Procurement Technical Assistance Center 
and the new Guam Veterans Business Outreach Center. In addition, funds 
from the Department of the Interior Office of Insular Affairs helped to 
support a community and economic development forum in 2009 and to 
launch the ``Buy Local Guam'' marketing educational campaign in 2011.
  Dr. Enriquez is also an active and passionate member in our island 
community. She believes that education is the key to sustainable 
economic success for Guam. She oversees the Women in Business program 
at the Guam SBDC, mentors the SIGMA Society Soroptimist college club 
that focuses on ``best for women'' and counsels up-and-coming female 
entrepreneurs. She is also a member of the International Economic 
Development Council, the California Association for Local Economic 
Development, the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce, the Guam Procurement 
Advisory Council, the Career and Technical Education Task Force 
Committee, and the Guampedia Board of Directors. She previously served 
as an appointed member of the Guam Education Board, is a founding 
member of the Guam Museum Foundation Board, and member of the Guam 
Chamber of Commerce Small Business Focus and Development Committee, 
Rotary Club of Tumon Bay Board of Directors (RI District 2750), the 
Economic Development Subcommittee of the Guam Civilian and Military 
Task Force, and the Junior Achievement Board of Directors. She was also 
founding Vice President of the Guam Marketing Association in 1997.
   In 2011, Dr. Enriquez won the ``2011 GCC Alumna of the Year Award,'' 
and the Academy of Economics and Economic Education ``Distinguished 
Research Award'' for her co-authored work on ``The Making of the 
Pacific Tiger: Lessons from the Celtic Tiger.'' In 2012, she was 
awarded the ``UOG Administrator of the Year Award'' and ``UOG Unit of 
the Year Award.''
   Ms. Enriquez is married to Noel Enriquez and she has one daughter, 
Vanessa and two stepsons, Nathan and Nicolas. She earned a B.S. in 
Management from University of Maryland, a certificate from the 
Institute for Management and Leadership in Education at Harvard 
Graduate School of Education, an M.B.A. from the University of Guam, 
and a Doctor of Business Administration degree in International 
Business and Marketing from Alliant International University.
   I congratulate Dr. Anita Borja Enriquez on receiving the 2013 U.S. 
Small Business Administration's Women in Business Champion Award for 
Guam. I join the people of Guam in commending her for her award and 
thanking her for her many contributions to our island community.

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