Ms. Rice is Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) and Fashion Fair Cosmetics, a global prestige cosmetics brand for women of color. She is also Chairman Emeritus of Ebony Media Operations and EBONY Media Holdings, the parent company for EBONY and Jet brands.

Rice has extensive corporate board service experience having served on Bausch & Lomb, Continental Bank, Quaker Oats, Dial Corporation, MoneyGram and Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Ms. Rice currently serves on the board of directors of Omnicom Group, GrubHub and Tesla.

Ms. Rice’s leadership with not for profit organizations is extensive as well. She is a Trustee at the Art Institute of Chicago, President of the Chicago Public Library Board of Directors, Council Member of The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and Northwestern Memorial Corporation.

In recognition of her leadership and achievements, the Chicago Sun-Times named Rice among Chicago’s “100 Most Powerful Women” and one of the “Top 10 Women in Media.” Crain’s Chicago Business named her one of “The 20 Most Powerful Women in Chicago Business.” She also received the Women of Power Award from the National Urban League, the Trumpet Award from Turner Broadcasting, the Alumni Merit Award from the University of Southern California, and the Alumni of the Year Award from the Black Management Association at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Rice holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and a Master of Management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.