WBE Inductee

Alta Baker

Alta Baker, president and CEO, Safe Haven Enterprises LLC, receives the WBE Hall of Fame Advocate of the Year award, presented by Billie Bryant Schultz, president and CEO, CESCO
Alta Baker is president and CEO of Safe Haven Enterprises of Jennings, La., an internationally respected corporation that excels in the engineering, fabrication and installation of fire- and blast-resistant modular buildings, portable units, facilities, doors, windows and louvers. Often called upon for her expertise on women’s issues, Baker was the keynote speaker at Project Tsunami in Washington, D.C., and the Women Trading Globally conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she spent three days in training with the women who formed the first Iraqi governing council sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Andra Rush

Jackie Taylor, director, diversity supplier programs, Rush Group of Companies, accepts the WBE Hall of Fame Entrepreneur of the Year award on behalf of Andra Rush (not pictured), founder, president, and chief operating office of the Rush Group. The award was presented by Tom Trotter, vice chairman of the American Institute of Diversity and Commerce.
Rush Group of Companies. Native American Andra Rush is the founder, president and chief executive operating officer of the Rush Group, which includes Rush Trucking Corp. and Dakkota Integrated Systems LLC. This consortium of manufacturing, trucking, assembly and distribution is one of the largest Native American-owned businesses in the U.S. Rush serves on the boards and commissions of many organizations, including the Minority Business Roundtable, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Detroit Economic Club, Childhelp Michigan, Current Motor Co. and Michigan Women’s Foundation. In addition, she serves on the supplier advisory boards for Chrysler and General Motors.