Frederick Hutson, co-founder and CEO at Pigeonly is on the main stage at AfroTech 2022 (Austin, TX) talking with Blavity Co-Founder and COO Jeff Nelson. Pigeonly is a simple, affordable way to stay in touch with loved ones who are behind bars nationwide.

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Kalah Haley is an NFT strategist, and founder at Saint Rock Media, which helps companies all over the world craft culture experiences and events. A frequent speaker on NFT related topics, Kalah is a prolific investor and trusted voice on blockchain technologies.

On this episode, Kalah speaks with AfroTechs Will Lucas about the current NFT bear market and investor outlook. Whats happening in the world of NFTs that gives investors like Kalah hope?

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Derrick 'Moe' Moore, Clint Gray, and Emmanuel ‘EJ’ Reed are the founders of Slim & Huskey's Pizza Beeria, a fast-casual artisan pizza shop with a love for Hip Hop and R&B culture. The Nashville Based company now boasts restaurants in Antioch, Chattanooga, Memphis, Murfreesboro, TN as well as Atlanta, GA and Sacramento. CA.

On this episode, Clint and Moe talk with AfroTech's Will Lucas about the Italian History of pizza places and how their take on a pizza restaurant instead amplifies Black culture, and how that takes each slice and topping  to another level.

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Telva McGruder is the Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at General Motors, and has spent more than 28 years at the company - starting as an engineer. Today, she’s focused on weaving DEI into the fabric of the company, working in partnership with internal and external leaders to champion the broad and diverse workforce.

On this episode recorded at the 2022 AfroTech Conference in Austin Texas, Telva speaks with Blavity Co-founder and COO Jeff Nelson about corporate commitments to DEI, electric vehicles, and why Black people should care about the future of EV.

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Everett Harper is the CEO and Co-Founder of Truss, a human-centered software development company. He is the author of the new leadership book Move to the Edge, Declare it Center, which was published by Wiley earlier this year. He was previously Director of Customer Acquisition and Community at Linden Lab (maker of Second Life). A CEO and technologist who also hits many stages around the world to talk about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

On this episode, Everette speaks with AfroTech's Will Lucas about corporate diversity responsibility, the 'Back To Office' trend, and finding startup ideas.

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Ursula Burns was CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016, the first among black women to be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and the first woman to succeed another as head of a Fortune 500 company.
 
Most pertinent to todays conversation is her board roles. Ms. Burns sat on the Boards of Directors for more than 15 companies, including Boston Scientific, the University of Rochester, the MIT Corporation, American Express, Exxon Mobile, Uber, Waystar and more.

During this conversation, which was held at AfroTech Executive Brooklyn, Ms. Burns talks with Heather Hiles, managing partner at Black Ops Ventures, and founder at Pathbrite about how corporate boards work, how to get one one, and determining if its the right fit for you in the first place.

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Collab Capital is an investment fund helping Black founders build sustainable, innovation-centered businesses. The partners, Barry Givens, Jewel Burks and Justin Dawkins are previously operators and engineers who've raised significant venture capital, and successfully sold their companies. The partners chat with Will Lucas about whats missing in venture capital to meet the needs of Black founders, how wealth generation impacts our community, and using contractors to build your startup.

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Jehron Petty is Founder and CEO at ColorStack, a non-profit collegiate organization that helps Black and Latinx Computer Science students get degreed and hired. When he was at Cornell, he worked as an intern at google, and later turned them down for a full-time role to start his own entrepreneurial journey.

On this episode, Jehron talks with AfroTech's Will Lucas about the pipeline for Black talent, personal branding while still in school, and overcoming barriers to Black students not graduating from college.

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Elliott Robinson is partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He’s focused on growth stage series C, D and E opportunities investing across the spectrum of Cloud Software, Consumer Internet, and Frontier Tech with check sizes between $20M and $150M. Elliott chat's with Will Lucas about how cloud computing accelerates innovation during the age of COVID in stubborn industries, how Black people can finally capitalize on the culture we lead, and how to get more Black-led startups past series A.

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Candice Matthews Brackeen is the Founder and CEO of Lightship Capital, the Cincinnati based portfolio service firm including accelerators Hillman and NewMe, and venture capital fund Lightship. Candice raised the most money ever for a first time fund ran by a Black woman, a $50 million fund. Candice chat's with Will Lucas about why she can't make early bets on startups, and how she impacted state and local policy to help make her Midwest community more startup friendly.

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