Converse College Honors Elisabeth Marchant with the Career Achievement Award

SPARTANBURG, SC (06/14/2013)(readMedia)-- Converse College honored alumna Elisabeth Marchant, a native of Greenville, SC and current resident of Atlanta, GA, with the 2013 Career Achievement Award. The award was presented by Converse President Betsy Fleming and Converse Alumnae Association President Elisabeth Kinney McNeil during the college's reunion weekend.

Elisabeth graduated from Ashley Hall before attending Converse. Since graduating from college, Elisabeth has worked to advance herself professionally and has reinvented herself many times over the years, performing in such roles as the Owner and President of her family's manufacturing business, Marchant's Inc., the publisher of Business to Business and b³ magazines, the founder of Atlanta Woman magazine, the Vice President of the Leadership Publishing Group Inc., and as an Executive Director at Multicast Media Networks.

In 2009, Elisabeth launched Womenetics as an outgrowth of her lifelong passion to see women advance in the workplace, a passion stemmed directly from the education she received at Converse.

About Converse College

Founded in 1889 and located in Spartanburg, S.C., Converse College is a master's university dedicated to developing adaptable leaders equipped with the creativity, character, knowledge and perspective to effect positive change in the world. Converse was ranked 3rd in the nation for research, service and social mobility by Washington Monthy and is a Best Value in the South by U.S.News & World Report.

Converse offers a wide range of academic programs for undergraduate women and coed graduate students through the School of Humanities and Sciences, School of Education and Graduate Studies, and School of the Arts. The Converse learning community is differentiated by the Nisbet Honors Program, Petrie School of Music, award-winning independent and collaborative research, leading national debate teams, study abroad and internship programs, and a 10:1 student/faculty ratio.