The Greater Merrifield Business Association is hosting a networking luncheon on Tuesday, September 15 featuring a presentation by Doris E. McMillon, the president and chief strategic officer of McMillon Communications, which provides media training services, executive presentation, and image branding as well as voice and diction coaching.

Currently serving as a Prince George’s County Commissioner for the Cable Commission, McMillion was a top rated broadcast journalist for major radio and television stations in Detroit, New York and for WJLA-Channel 7 and Black Entertainment Television in Washington, D.C. She also served as the moderator for Education News, Parents Can Use, a production for the Department of Education and had roles, as herself, in “In the Line of Fire,” “Murder at 1600,” “Head of State,” “West Wing,” and “The Wire.” McMillion also co-authored The ABC’s of Media: Turning Negative News into Positive Press and the author of Mixed Blessing. The luncheon will start at 11:30 a.m. at Sea Pearl in Merrifield. For more information, visit www.greatermerrifield.org.