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For the past several months, Roanoke Valley MBA graduate Jamil Srour has been on the road crisscrossing America as a participant in the 2008 presidential election campaign working for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. Jamil has known Romney more than six years when they were introduced at a Mormon Church Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has been in charge of Romney's campaign outreach efforts to minority communities with Middle Eastern backgrounds.
In speaking of his experience in a letter to Campus Director Lew Bishop, Jamil writes:
…I must say that the things I learned at National College, and the degree which I earned, have helped me in crafting and executing an ‘outreach’ strategy in our efforts in reaching out to the various minority ethnic groups in Iowa, Michigan, Florida and throughout the states during Super Tuesday week…I learned a lot from Mitt and the campaign team. I also have been in many newspapers and on many television stations here and abroad…How grateful I am to live in America, how proud I am to have earned a graduate degree from America, and how blessed I am to be part of this great process. Thank you again for all your help and support during the last three years in my life in America.
Jamil is pictured on stage to the right of Mitt Romney after the campaign’s primary win in Michigan.
