Sharon Bowen Breaks Barriers By Becoming The First Black Woman To Chair The NYSE Board Sharon Bowen, a Black woman, has been appointed as the next chair of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), according to MarketWatch. Bowen’s promotion marks the first Black woman positioned to the role and comes on the heels of leadership changes as the NYSE faces growing competition from other stock exchange companies. In 2021, one of the NYSE's competitors, Nasdaq, raised $191 billion through IPOs as opposed to NYSE which accumulated $109 billion, The Wall Street Journal  reports .  While Nasdaq used their IPOS to prioritize environmental, social and governance as their forward movement agenda, the NYSE stumbled due to the impact of COVID-19. Bowen was also the first Black person  appointed to the Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Her three-year servitude began in 2014 under the Obama Administration, V103 reports . She has since helped cultivate new conversations in...