Value Added HBCUs, Maker Spaces and Regional Manufacturing with Dr. Ronald C. Williams

Crystal Berger is the founder of EBO, an all-inclusive booking technology that uses automation, AI, and machine learning to discover, vet, and book on-air contributors, experts, and influencers for media appearances within minutes.

She is the author of "Be Extraordinary" on Amazon.  Additional accomplishments include:
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- tripled network bookings within the first two years
- increased diversity by 85% in my division for that reason alone
- managed 1300+ local stations
- booked over 140,000 experts during my time in news, featured panelist at the Congressional Black Caucus, Business Insider, featured in FORBES, Black Enterprise, MediaBistro, FOX News, the Dr. Oz Show and more!
 
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Dawn Myers is a Founder and CEO in the hardware, CPG, and retail space and a DC region ecosystem builder, having held several leadership positions in nonprofits in the tech and startup sphere.

She started her company, THE MOST, Inc. to make products to meet the nuanced needs of women of color through physical products, but engineering and manufacturing tech-enabled hardware takes an incredible amount of capital and training. Dawn had to get creative to raise funds to surmount the heightened barriers to entry for minorities in this space and quickly found herself entrenched in the product development, hardware, and manufacturing spaces and advising others on how to get the resources they need to grow.

Along the way, she acquired a passion for helping early stage founders learn and grow in entrepreneurship, particularly with respect to leveraging venture and non traditional funding pathways. A Howard Law JD, Techstars Alumna, and guest lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon, UMD, and Georgetown, she is committed to creating quality programming for founders striving to innovate for their communities.

Books mentioned in this episode include:

Forgiveness: 21 days to Forgive Everyone for Everything  by Iyanla Vanzant
Rejection to Reward by LaKisha Greenwade 
Who Offended You by Phillip G Goudeaux

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Dr. Sabrina M. Curtis is the founder and CTO of the company Khanjur R&D.

Sabrina earned her bi-national double doctorate degrees between the Faculty of Engineering at Kiel University (Germany) and the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland (USA). The primary focus of her doctoral research was to functionalize thin-film nickel titanium-based super elastic and shape memory alloy materials into novel applications including magnetoelectric sensors, stretchable electronics, and bi-stable actuators.

She started a material science Outreach and Education program through Khanjur, 
published numerous research papers and patents, won an NSF Fellowship to fund double doctorate degree, earned a Master's Degree at the Army Research Lab and 
invented a stretchable solar cell in undergraduate degree at University of Maryland.

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Amira Radovic CEO and Founder of TheraV

She raised about half a million dollars of non-dilutive funding to develop and launch her product into the market. Amira enjoys using her talents and skills to develop products that help people live better. During her downtime, Amira enjoys spending time with her husband, Dr. Matija Radovic, and her daughters Jasna and Ivana.

If you would like to purchase a TheraV ELIX device for a military Veteran who needs it, visit www.therav.me. When you checkout, add a note that you are gifting the device to a military veteran.

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Erin Perkins is a champion of disability rights and an inspiring entrepreneur who advocates for greater accessibility, inclusiveness, and understanding within the business world. As a deafblind woman herself – founder of small online business Mabely Q – as well as an experienced speaker/educator, Erin’s message has been heard by CEOs around the country. Her unique gifts are her life experiences which she compassionately shares with others through keynote speeches, private workshops or one-on-one consulting sessions to foster true inclusion at all levels -- allowing people with disabilities equal opportunities to succeed professionally.

Contact her for accessibility assessments at Successible, a platform that is designed to empower businesses through accessibility education, actionable tips and community.

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Kai Frazier is an educator turned EdTech entrepreneur passionate about using tech to provide opportunities for underestimated communities.

She is the founder & CEO of Kai XR, which uses Metaverse technologies to develop critical 21st century skills in students preparing them for a rapidly evolving future.

Before creating Kai XR, Kai worked with several museums such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as well as the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, specializing in digital strategy and educational content creation.

Her work has been featured with the US Department of Education, Forbes, NBC, NASDAQ, & more.

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LinkedIn

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Chief Haptic Officer and CoFounder at Wear Works

Keith Kirkland is a haptics enthusiast, accessories designer, engineer and impact-driven strategist that is deeply excited about reimagining the use of touch in design and digital communications.  His work has been recognized by the Pratt’s Rowena Reed-Kostellow Award, SXSW, The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, EY, TED, Dropbox, The Yokohama Government, Beyond Bauhaus, and the MET Museum. He is a serial entrepreneur inspired by the intersection of touch, equitable business model development and nuanced customer insights to create sustainable impact-driven technologies that deliver at scale. Keith is also cofounder of WearWorks, an award-winning haptic navigation company that help the first person who is blind run the NYC marathon without sighted assistance. HapticNav™ and Wayband®, is a haptic navigation app (and optional haptic wristband) that gently navigates a person to a destination using vibrations, without the need for any visual or audio feedback.

Download his new song Haptics, We Have a Vision. 
Download the HapticNav App.

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Season 2 closes with this important funding discussion. Listen and take notes as we discuss Non-Dilutive Funding for Health & Biotech Innovators. Learn how to maximize your chances of success in accessing millions of dollars in federal grants for the development of health and biotech innovations.

Dr. Idong Essiet-Gibson, PhD, MPH, PMP, is the Founding Principal of The Idyeas Group, a global health and scientific management consultancy in Silver Spring, Maryland. Before founding The Idyeas Group, she served 26 years on active duty in the US Army, the US Public Health Service, and the US Army Reserves. She spent over two decades managing multimillion-dollar programs for the predecessor of the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Biomedical Research Development Authority (BARDA), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to her time at HHS, she managed biomedical research programs at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and The George Washington University. She is married with one son.

 Follow her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/iegibson

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Phil Rogofsky, Founder and Executive Director of the Maryland STEM Festival
Join him for the festival this Fall,  October 13th through November 11th. Learn more at https://marylandstemfestival.org/

Phil created the Maryland STEM Festival in 2015 and was recently featured in an article in Voyage Baltimore, https://voyagebaltimore.com/interview/check-out-phil-rogofskys-story/

He believes the STEM World/Community should be all inclusive and has taken action to ensure it is for our future. Thanks for being a valued ecosystem partner, Phil. 

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Joseph Hamilton is a former army soldier with soldier of the year accolades, college graduate from Columbus State University, member of Kappa Alpha Psi, and collegiate athlete. Joseph's specialty is in digital marketing with a focus in SEO and Advertising. His background prior to running his startups was in Sales and Marketing. Now Joseph runs two tech startups, Bacchus and 4 Second Football.

Bacchus is your drinking buddy that will alert you in real time of your estimated BAC level, and 4 Second Football is the first smart football that comes with a built in timer.

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