Meet Ursula Burns, the first Black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company, who built an empire beyond Xerox
Billionaires Africa | 11.04.2026 03:35
Ursula Burns grew up in a housing project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Her mother, Olga, ran a home daycare and took in ironing to pay for Catholic school tuition. She raised three children largely on her own, and she had a clear view of what education was worth. Burns absorbed that lesson early and never let it go.
