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Kong continued:
Currently, Maria Kong holds the position of president of the National Association of Real
Estate Brokers (NAREB), the nation’s oldest minority trade organization. Maria is the
second female president in NAREB’s 60 year history, the first Floridian and person of
Caribbean descent to hold this position. Always an active NAREB member, Maria has
served on numerous occasions, as NAREB’s convention chair including the one
convened in Jamaica attended by more than 1,000 members, government ministers and
real estate leaders.
A recipient of many local and national awards, Maria has been featured in the News and
Sun-Sentinel as well as several Caribbean newspapers and in Black Diaspora Magazine.
Maria has been given proclamations from Broward County and the City of Lauderhill, as
well as Honorary Citizen of the City of Huntsville, Alabama. Born and raised in Jamaica,
Ms. Kong earned a Bachelor of Arts and MBA degrees from American Intercontinental
University.