SALISBURY, MD—Dr. Sarah Guy, associate director of the Business, Economic and Community Outreach Network (BEACON) in Salisbury University’s Franklin P. Perdue School of Business, has been named among Maryland’s Top 100 Women for 2020 by The Daily Record, a Baltimore-based business newspaper.
With BEACON, Guy helps provide decision makers in public and private sectors on Delmarva and throughout Maryland with the business and economic development data and information they need to make informed decisions. The network uses targeted outreach programs, applied research, trend and scenario analyses, demand forecasting, strategic planning, and feasibility and economic impact studies, among other tools.
While providing these services, BEACON also offers a wide range of experiential learning opportunities for Perdue School students, many of whom are overseen by Guy. She also serves on the school’s Career Advisory Board. In addition, she is a graduate of Leadership Maryland, a competitive program dedicated to building a stronger state by cultivating, educating and connecting leaders with a focus on vital social, economic and environmental issues, as well as Shore Leadership, a similar regional program.
In the community, Guy is an active member of organizations including Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore and the Salisbury Sunrise Rotary Club. With Junior Achievement, she took the lead in maintaining and managing a Rotary district grant to launch a virtual financial literacy program for youth.
Through Rotary, she coordinated a literacy program, incentivizing children in local non-profit after-school programs to read during the winter holidays. She was named the organization’s Rotarian of the Year in 2016.
This is Guy’s second Daily Record honor. The publication named her among Maryland’s Leading Women in 2018.
For more information call 410-543-6030 or visit the SU website at www.salisbury.edu.
