Black is the New Green showcases amazing black entrepreneurs, investors, & more who share how they overcame challenges on their success.
Episodes
Kendra Bracken-Ferguson | Increasing Economic Opportunities For Black Founders
Duration: 38minMonique DeBose | An Award-Wining Jazz Singer, And Playwright
Duration: 43minAlicia Ivey | Provide High Quality Of Food in Airports Concessions
Duration: 36minDonald Hawkins | Financial Services Helping Black America Build Generational Wealth
Duration: 38minDr. Zwade Marshall | Award Wining Double-Board Certified Harvard Physician
Duration: 35minBam Sparks | Brand And Partnerships Specialist With Expertise
Duration: 27minKwame Anku | Experience In Business Development And Media Marketing
Duration: 35minShasha Jumbe | Groundbreaking Vibroacoustic Health Diagnostic Devices
Duration: 36minVernell Woods | The First Mobile Economy
Duration: 33minKange Kaneene | Providing Go-To-Go Market & Technical Resources to Startups
Duration: 37minAnthony Gee | Innovative Workspaces For Creative Entrepreneurs
Duration: 37minJacquelle Horton | Empowering Fans To Support Artists They Love
Duration: 32minZeeteah Massiah | Exceptional Career Chart-Topping Music And Touring
Duration: 38min
Founders
Kendra Bracken-Ferguson
Kendra Bracken-Ferguson, Founder of BrainTrust, is one of fashion and beauty’s most successful digital pioneers, not only for creating the social media footprint for Ralph Lauren’s fashion empire, but also as a co-founder of Digital Brand Architects, the first agency to manage “bloggers” as talent in 2009. Kendra is one of only 200 Black women ever to have received over $1M in investment for her first company. She has launched three companies herself; most recently her latest endeavor BrainTrust Founders Studio focuses on increasing inclusive economic opportunities for Black beauty and wellness founders providing mentorship, education, community and capital to help them accelerate their businesses and build sustainable growth. She is a long-standing business partner to Halle Berry and rē⋅spin by Halle Berry; a co-founder of BeautyUnited, a non-profit dedicated to driving DE&I in the beauty and wellness industry; and the host of Business of the Beat Beauty and Wellness Podcast. Kendra graduated from Purdue University with a BA in Communications and then received her MBA in Business Administration from Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University. She has an endowment at her alma mater for a Black female freshman student in the communications school to increase the number of Black students at the University.