James Johnson-Piett is the principal and CEO of New York-based Urbane Development, a community development venture that utilizes a community's greatest resource to build dynamic neighborhoods in underserved areas: the community itself.
Steve Barlow is a partner in Brewer & Barlow PLC, a civil justice law firm based in Memphis, and co-founder of Neighborhood Preservation, Inc., a nonprofit established to resolve vacant property and abandonment challenges in the city.
Gabriel Mandujano is the founder and CEO of Philadelphia-based Wash Cycle Laundry, a triple-bottom-line social enterprise that provides much-needed corporate laundry services while also providing green economy jobs to folks returning to the workforce.
Adele London is the Director of Business Development of the Good Work Network in New Orleans, a small business resource center that works to provide economic opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses.
Isis Ferguson is the Associate Director of City + Community Strategy for Place Lab, a catalyst for mindful urban transformation and creative redevelopment overseen by renowned social practice artist Theaster Gates.
Pashon Murray is the co-founder of Detroit Dirt and a lifelong champion of waste reduction, sustainable practices, and circular economies. She has become a spokesperson for these movements, and even more so, a representative of the real working American public.
Eric Avner is Vice President and Senior Manager of community development programs for the Cincinnati-based Haile Foundation, and is CEO of People's Liberty, a "philanthropic lab" that invests directly in individuals through funding and mentorship.
Carlo "Khali" Sweeney is the founder of Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program, a boxing gym on Detroit's east side that develops good citizenship in urban youth through a wide variety of educational and fitness programs and voluntary service.
Tommy Pacello is President of the Memphis Medical District Collaborative (MMDC), a community development organization supported by eight major anchor institutions operating in a two square mile area between Downtown and Midtown Memphis.
The entrepreneurial landscape of Memphis is expanding in rich and exciting ways, and Leslie Lynn Smith is helping to foster that growth. As President of the EPIcenter, she is catalyzing and connecting the entrepreneurship movement with a focus on tinclusive economic expansion.
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