Martha Stansbury - Big Things, Small Packages

Small business is the revenue-generating, jobs-producing backbone of regional socioeconomics – and nobody knows this better than Martha Stansbury.

As director of the Small Business Development Center at Stony Brook, Martha has many oars in the water – overseeing instructional programs, preparing annual budgets, managing special projects, addressing the immediate and long-term needs of entrepreneurs, working alongside State University administrators, Long Island lawmakers and other influential stakeholders.

In today’s episode, Martha joins Spark host Gregory Zeller to discuss her long business-development career, her personal and professional ambitions and the Stony Brook SBDC’s Job No. 1: helping small businesses throughout Suffolk County survive and thrive, a critical mission that’s essential to the future of the Long Island Innovation Economy.