Russell A. Hicks is an active father, youth mentor and an award-winning social entrepreneur. He is a business owner and CEO of Ebony Suns Enterprises, LLC, a consulting company that provides business coaching, training and project management for schools, non-profit organizations and companies in the green economy that hire and invest in youth. He is originally from Chicago, and an alumni of Howard University School of Business in Washington DC, a U.S Professional Fellow and currently serves as a Board Chair of Partners of the Americas Pennsylvania Chapter that does international exchange with countries in Latin America. He is committed to economic development for people of color throughout the African Diaspora, and shows companies how to go green, make green and do good with their green.