As the CEO of Kingdom Social Media, an agency specializing in helping influential leaders dominate their market online through social media marketing, Simons has helped more than 20 Fortune 500 companies establish digital marketing campaigns.
Ballin’s work led her to being named the 2017 National Black Journalists Association (NABJ) Journalist of the Year (online) and a Caribbean American Thirty Under 30 Emerging Leader. She netted the NABJ Award for Best Features Series in 2017 for her project exploring the importance of a comprehensive Black history education, through a collection of essays.
Instead of pursing the studentathlete path, she had grown to know throughout her younger life, Gibson continued her education without basketball to aid her studies in Business Informatics (Analytics) at Widener University in Chester, Pa. She was honored in two academic fraternities, Phi Eta Sigma and Beta Alpha Psi.
Blount is the founder of the “The Urban Thinker”, which symbolizes the connection between Black consciousness, Black philosophies and generating questions. He is the vice president of I.M.P.A.C.T (Intelligent Men of Color Purposefully Accomplishing College Together), a member of the Black Alumni Association of Arcadia University and the Association of Black Social Workers.
His parents, Oba and Idm Awan, also known as Robert and Beverly Lloyd, were pioneers of African consciousness in Cleveland, OH, where they chartered the Abundant Life Christian Academy, an African American-themed elementary school. Sankofa says he is fighting for the liberation of all people of the African Diaspora
Tempest Carter is passionate about eradicating poverty and improving the quality of life for comunities through education, community building, youth empowerment, economic development, and art. She is looking for positions that will use her skills to support the creation and maintaining of opportunity rich and culturally vibrant communities
MarjoLagah Bona is the founder and CEO of Cocorobics Workshop, an international traveling dance and fitness program which features a mixture of dance from different part of the world, mostly African, and is fused with Aerobics.
Hazim Hardeman made history as the first Rhodes scholar to graduate from Temple University. He was one of 32 students and recent graduates selected from more than 850 applicants to receive a 2018 Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and most prestigious international award available to Americans.
Norris currently serves as the CEO of Techbook Online Corporation, a news and event company that published original content across channels and platforms.
