National Visionary Voice of Economic Inclusion / Integration
Award-winning journalist: 18 years experience. New York Times Leadership Academy Fellow. Social Media at CNN. Digital Media Innovations...view moreNational Visionary Voice of Economic Inclusion / Integration
Award-winning journalist: 18 years experience. New York Times Leadership Academy Fellow. Social Media at CNN. Digital Media Innovations Strategist at Dow Jones Local Media Group. Columnist: Oregon Business magazine, Governing Institute, Huffington Post.
National Commitment: As a member of the Clinton Global Initiative High-Growth Entrepreneurship Working Group successfully established ScaleUp America campaign.
National speaker / moderator / producer: SXSWedu Conference, SSTI Conference, SBIR/STTR Conference, ScaleUp Rally for Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, National Urban League's Urban Ideas Forum, Bill & Melinda Gates Symposium, Morehouse College Hopps Defense Research Scholars Symposium, HBCU Innovation Summit at Stanford University, Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference, Puget Sound Regional Economic Solutions Summit, DC STEM Summit (many more).
Catalytic Leader
Co-founder, ScaleUp Partners LLC: National consultancy focused on economic inclusion through vision, policy, strategy, implementation and measurable results. Architects of the nation's only Inclusive Competitiveness economic policy and strategy. Unanimously adopted as statewide policy by the Ohio Board of Regents in Oct. 2014.
Co-founder, Executive Director, ScaleUp America: a commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative High Growth Entrepreneurship Working Group. Dedicated to developing a framework and process for collaborating national leaders and channeling resources to the local level to scale up what's working in regional innovation, inclusion and impact.
Co-founder, The America21 Project: National nonprofit focused on changing the economic narrative in underrepresented populations and across underserved regions of urban and rural America, promoting "Inclusive Competitiveness" strategies and connecting economically disconnected communities to local innovation ecosystems.
Founder, Saving America's Black Boys Solutions Summits: Launched at SXSWedu Conference 2013 and invited back for a 2014 presentation, SABB is an unprecedented outreach to the leaders and influencers of the nation's black boys and young men to provide education on teaching youth how to compete in a new economic paradigm.
Writer / Producer
Media: Columnist -- Huffington Post, Oregon Business Magazine. Contributor -- Washington Post, NPR, PBS, Black Enterprise ...view less