Black Power Moves

In this episode of Black Power Moves, part of the Ebony Covering Black America Podcast Network, we're speaking to Rukayatu ("Ruky") Tijani, Founder of Firm for the Culture.

https://www.firmfortheculture.com/

Ruky founded the Firm for the Culture after years of serving as an intellectual property attorney in the Silicon Valley Office of the top litigation firm in the country. Firm for the Culture was borne out of Ruky’s passion for the law, social impact, social entrepreneurship, and strategically scaling to create sustainable change.

As a Social Entrepreneur herself, Ruky knows what it’s like to seek social change while learning to protect a business’s assets. And her mission is to help Social Entrepreneurs Trademark their Brands as they Scale their Impact™

Drawing on her extensive experience as an intellectual property attorney in the Silicon Valley office of the top litigation firm in the Country, Ruky provides extensive, detail-oriented and comprehensive trademark education, strategy, and application services to a host of social entrepreneurs and innovative founders at accessible flat-fee prices.

In addition to serving as Managing Attorney for Firm for the Culture, Ruky is also the Founder and Creator of the First Generation Purpose Project ®("FGPP"), an initiative designed to help First Generation Professionals and Entrepreneurs navigate life and career by utilizing the grit and tenacity that is already on the inside of them.

Ruky has provided workshops to students, young professionals, and creatives at New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and Berkeley Law School. Her workshops have been praised as candid, insightful, empowering, and practical. She has been recognized as a California Change Lawyer for Legal Diversity, been featured in XONecole and Above the Law, and taken part in several podcast interviews, including the Happy Lawyers Project and the First-Gen Lounge.

Ruky is a proud Nigerian-American first-generation professional from the projects of Brooklyn, New York; a graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law; and a member of the New York and California State Bars.

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In this episode of Black Power Moves, part of the Ebony Covering Black America Podcast Network, we're speaking to Tonya Carruthers Chief Human Resources Officer for PFF.

PFF is the essential partner to elite professional teams and fans alike, providing tools, analysis and content. PFF is transforming the sports performance analytics experience end-to-end, building products that help NFL & NCAA and soccer front offices, coaching staffs, media partners and digital subscribers evaluate player performance at an unmatched level.

She has also worked in Human Resources for huge organizations like JC Penney and Walmart, specializing in Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding, Talent Transformation, Marketing, College Recruiting, Compensation, Process Improvement, Diversity Recruiting, and much more.

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In this episode of Black Power Moves, part of the Ebony Covering Black America Podcast Network, we're speaking to Jordan Thierry, Founder and Creative Director of Dream Chase Media.

https://dreamchasemedia.com/

His latest movie project is Grandma’s Roses is the second feature documentary after previously directing The Black Fatherhood Project, an exploration of fatherhood in Black America.

For the new film, Jordan looked to his grandmother, who recently passed away, for inspiration, traveling across the country to conduct interviews exploring the concept of grandmothers as the centerpieces of family life.

https://grandmasfilm.com/

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In this episode of Black Power Moves, part of the Ebony Covering Black America Podcast Network, we're speaking to Dr. Shashu Taylor, President of M.E.N.D. Families Corp.

http://mendfamiliescorp.org/

M.E.N.D. Families Corp is dedicated to mending families and children of divorce, separation, and family hardships. Their mission is to provide support services and crisis prevention programs that help combat the effects of loss and support the healing process. As a result, families and children move forward to lead successful and healthy lives. 

The organization's current program is "Pain No More!" an outreach program that provides support services to adults and children of divorce, separation, and similar family hardships. Through hands-on workshops and counseling services, families are provided with support services and crisis prevention tools that lead to healthy and productive lives. Programs include: mental health, physical health and wellness, financial and legal counseling, employability services, co-parenting programs, youth services and mentorship.

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In this episode of Black Power Moves, part of the Ebony Covering Black America Podcast Network, we're speaking to Dr. Adrianne Jackson, Violence Prevention Program Manager for the United States Air Force.

As an experienced faculty practitioner, program manager and higher education administrator with a myriad of experience across several public and private sectors, she has over 15 years of experience in program management and policy development, higher education administration, community engagement, training and development and social services and research experience. 

Her primary research area is interpersonal and self directed violence prevention and her dissertation focused on campus sexual assault seeks to broaden the scope of campus assault literature by centralizing barriers to application such as a limited understanding of consent by university stakeholders as well as ambiguity in federal enforcement and regulation of policies.

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In this episode of Black Power Moves, part of the Ebony Covering Black America Podcast Network, we're speaking to Liku Amadi, Founder of Anasa Law Firm.

https://www.anasalawfirm.com/

Her zone of genius is teaching and education is a staple of my law firm. She believes black business owners would do better in business if they had access to an attorney and understood the legal parts of their business. 

She makes it a point to educate business owners so they know the what, why and value behind their investment for legal services and so they are empowered to make legally informed business decisions to grow and scale.

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In this episode of Black Power Moves, part of the Ebony Covering Black America Podcast Network, we're speaking to Tomika Anderson, Public Relations & Branding Expert.

Tomika is a Business development oriented project manager, communications expert and certified change management practitioner working in both the commercial and federal government consulting space. 

As a PR and branding expert, she has landed clients features in outlets from USA Today to The Guardian. Award-winning multimedia journalist, editor, producer and writer who has created cross-platform content for FOX, CNN, MTV, BET, the Fuse, People, Essence, The Atlantic, The Washington Post and scores of other A-list outlets for more than two decades.

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In this episode of Black Power Moves, part of the Ebony Covering Black America Podcast Network, we're speaking to Marcus Knight, Founder of Cultured Perspective.

https://culturedperspective.com/

Cultured Perspective is a revenue growth consultancy at the intersection of revenue and equity growth – proving that the underestimated talent is out there if you search with intention. 

Marcus’ mission is to help founders lead with empathy and equity from the start, while generating a scalable revenue process. He assists start-up founders and rising revenue leaders with implementing the proper sales processes to plan, execute and scale their unique go-to-market strategy.

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In this episode of Black Power Moves, part of the Ebony Covering Black America Podcast Network, we're speaking to Queenie Donaldson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Queens Entertainment Group.

https://queensentertainmentgroup.com/

As the industry’s go-to woman for Hollywood’s most elite and luxury live events, global music festivals, celebrity private events, broadcast award shows, blockbuster movie premieres and national broadcast events, she is known as the “Celebrity Talent Strategist, an expert in securing high profile celebrity talent for various networks, digital platforms, productions, agencies, live events and special projects (on trend + pop culture).

Queenie has quietly worked behind the scenes as one of the most sought-after celebrity talent producers for various networks and production companies, such as BET, TV-One, VH-1, Showtime, A&E, We TV (owned by AMC Networks), Viceland as well as Telepictures – just to name a few.

Known as a fierce negotiator with managers, publicists ,label reps, etc. for “landing bookings” with “difficult to book” celebrities.

She has successfully booked, produced and consulted for esteemed clients and noteworthy projects for award-winning talent and industry heavyweights like Jennifer Lopez, Robert DeNiro, Michelle Obama, Kim Kardashian, Zendaya, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jamie Foxx, Gabrielle Union, Justin Timberlake, LL Cool J, Tyra Banks, Drake, Lil Wayne, Serena Williams, Snoop Dogg, Queen Latifah, Bozoma Saint John, Nicki Minaj, Dwayne Johnson, Halle Berry, Kevin Hart, Shaquille O’Neal, Beyoncé, Prince, Justin Bieber, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Michael Jackson and many more.

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In this episode of Black Power Moves, part of the Ebony Covering Black America Podcast Network, we're speaking to Ray Leonard Jr., CEO of Ovationz.com.

Ovationz.com is the premier talent marketplace allowing SMEs, Artists, Speakers, Athletes and more to monetize their time and skills effortlessly. They level the playing field for organizations, corporations and individuals to have the same booking power as the big agencies.

Ray is also Chief Brand Strategist for Blackowned.com, Co-founder and COO of Launch Team Consulting and also CEO of Leonard Sports & Entertainment, a full service sports and entertainment management company specializing in pairing celebrities with corporations. 

He is currently on the board of directors for Walking Miracles, HBCU Heroes, and has been a mentor for the Magic Johnson foundation and The Walking Miracles Foundation.

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