CakeLove: Find Your Passion, Follow Your Calling

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Date/Time:Monday, 18 Feb 2013 at 8:00 pm
Location:Great Hall, Memorial Union
Cost:Free
Contact:
Phone:515-294-9934
Channel:Lecture Series
Categories:Diversity Lectures
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Warren Brown, former host of the Food Network's Sugar Rush, is the owner of CakeLove and the Love Café and author of three cookbooks. Brown left his job as an attorney for the federal government to start his bakery in 2002. He speaks about business development and finding one's passion.

Warren Brown's organization now includes seven retail storefronts in the Washington, DC area. His cookbooks include "CakeLove: How to Bake Cakes from Scratch," "United Cakes of America" and his latest, "CakeLove in the Morning."

Brown graduated from Brown University with a BA in History and from the George Washington University with a Juris Doctor and a master's in Public Health. He has been recognized for his entrepreneurial spirit by local and national media including The Oprah Winfrey Show, TODAY, NPR, CNN, and Inc. magazine, and national advertisement campaigns for American Express and Dell computers. He is a member of the board of Kid Power-DC, a local non-profit organization that conducts after school arts programs for DC youth. By 2006, Warren Brown was named the Small Business Person of the Year by the Small Business Administration.