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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Brian Sexton

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans Brian Sexton Brian Sexton is an Arts and Affordable Housing advocate, loving husband and proud father of two beautiful girls. As a Tennessee State University alum and co-owner of SpreadLuv.com, Brian enjoys empowering Creatives through the fusion of art, music and live events. His passion and love for Creatives propelled him along with fellow SpreadLuv co-owner Lonnell Matthews, to generate funds for local non-profits that assists youth in the area of Arts & Entertainment. Brian is also founder and chair of Creatives' Day, a local nonprofit organization that connects Creatives to Entrepreneurship tools, Financial Literacy tools and Affordable Housing resources. Their annual Creatives Day celebration [...]

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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Monchiere’ Holmes-Jones

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans Monchiere Holmes-Jones Monchiere’ Holmes-Jones is the Chief Brand Curator of MOJO Marketing + PR, a results-driven marketing professional seeking to energize brands of corporate marketing teams, small businesses, and women business owners across the South. Her dynamic 14 year career in marketing, pr, and brand campaigns consists of: innovative brand experiences, corporate marketing campaigns and campaign management, media planning, strategy, brand building and launches, event activation, community relations, strategic partnerships, and public relations experience. Specifically, in major industries like automotive, gaming, healthcare, higher education, tech, quick service restaurants. Her body of work and current clientele includes a range of big brands such as Hiller Plumbing [...]

By |January 15th, 2018|African Americans, Biography, Charity, Nashville Business, Nashville Leading 100, Politics|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Monchiere’ Holmes-Jones
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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Council Member Jacobia Dowell

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans Jacobia Dowell Jacobia Dowell is a second term elected Metro Councilmember representing District 32 of Metropolitan Nashville Davidson County. She represents the fastest growing area in Nashville. District 32 includes the former Hickory Hollow Mall business district and spans across both the suburban Antioch as well as the rural Cane Ridge community. As Councilmember, Jacobia has chaired and served on many committees including Codes, Fair and Farmer’s Market, Budget and Finance, Public Safety, Convention, Tourism and Public Entertainment Facilities and the Metro Nashville Audit Committee. Jacobia has advocated for improved education, safety, infrastructure and economic development in Nashville. She has championed the redevelopment of the [...]

By |January 13th, 2018|African Americans, Biography, Nashville Business, Nashville Leading 100, Women|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Council Member Jacobia Dowell
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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Kerry Schrader & Ashlee Ammons

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans Kerry Schrader Ashlee Ammons Kerry Schrader and Ashlee Ammons are a dynamic minority Mother/Daughter duo, who are in the new wave of entrepreneurs who are re-imagining daily life, creating services that make work and play simpler, better and more satisfying. Without formal tech backgrounds, they’ve been blazing trails in the male-dominated tech startup space with their company, Mixtroz which makes networking experiences more valuable. Following remarkable progress in 2017, Team Mixtroz kicks off 2018 with a bang joining the 2nd Cohort of Birmingham, Alabama’s prestigious Velocity Accelerator and starring on an episode of A&E’s New Investment Series “Rooster & Butch”. Kerry Schrader, Cofounder/CEO of Mixtroz, [...]

By |January 12th, 2018|Advertising, African Americans, Biography, Nashville Business, Nashville Leading 100, Parenting, Women|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Kerry Schrader & Ashlee Ammons
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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Dr. George C. Hill, Ph.D.

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans Dr George C Hill Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Past Vice Chancellor, Vanderbilt University In his last four decades in academia, George C. Hill, Ph.D. devoted his career to encouraging diversity, inclusion and equity in the biomedical workforce and beyond. For these efforts he received the Herbert Nickens Award from the American Association of Medical Colleges in November 2017 which is given annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions nationally to promoting justice in medical care. His career efforts made a demonstrable different at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Meharry Medical College from where he was recruited to serve as Vanderbilt’s first associate dean [...]

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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Adonis Lenzy

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans Adonis Lenzy Adonis Lenzy is a author, speaker, and minister who enjoys speaking to people from all walks and stages of life, inspiring them to live the life they have imagined by going after their dreams. He has served in the ministry for over 20 years as an associate pastor and has devoted his life to building and strengthening the local Church. He has developed a unique style of communicating in creative, illustrative and humorous ways to his audiences. With ingenuity he crosses all ethnic, denominational and cultural barriers. Whether speaking at conferences, organizations, churches, or to your staff, his message will no doubt inspire, [...]

By |January 12th, 2018|African Americans, Biography, Gospel, Nashville Business, Nashville Leading 100, Spirituality|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Adonis Lenzy
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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Reverend Dr. Renita J. Weems

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans Rev Dr Renita J Weems Reverend Dr. Renita J. Weems is a biblical scholar, a writer, an ordained minister, and a public intellectual whose scholarly insights into modern faith, biblical texts, and the role of spirituality in everyday lives make her a highly sought-after writer and speaker. She has numerous books, commentaries and articles on the Bible and prophetic religion to her credit. Among these are “Just A Sister Away” (1987 & 2005); “I Asked for Intimacy” (1993); “Song of Songs: A Commentary”, Interpreter’s Bible Series, Vol. 5 (Abingdon, 1997). Her 1999 book, “Listening for God: A Minister's Journey Through Silence and Doubt” (Simon & [...]

By |January 12th, 2018|African Americans, Biography, Nashville Business, Nashville Leading 100|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Reverend Dr. Renita J. Weems
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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Michelle Gaskin Brown

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans Michelle Gaskin Brown Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Michelle Gaskin Brown graduated from The Harpeth Hall School and earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science, cum laude, from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where she was a member of the Honorable Robert H. Staton Moot Court, the co-chair of Indiana University’s Council of Legal Diversity, IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law Pro Bono Award Recipient and a student attorney for the Wrongful Conviction Clinic. Michelle Gaskin Brown is the Vice President of Policy for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, focusing primarily on [...]

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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Joycelyn Stevenson

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans Joycelyn Stevenson A native of Macon, GA, Joycelyn graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Howard University and received her law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School. Joycelyn is the new Executive Director of the Tennessee Bar Association where she manages the affairs of the state bar under the direction of the 27-member board of directors. Most recently she was a shareholder at Littler Mendelson, P.C., where she practiced labor and employment law, specifically representing local and national corporate clients on workplace issues including allegations of wage and hour violations, race, religion, sex, disability and age discrimination, as well as in lawsuits and [...]

By |January 11th, 2018|African Americans, Biography, Law, Nashville Business, Nashville Leading 100|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Joycelyn Stevenson
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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Mariah L. Cole, J.D.

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans Mariah Cole Mariah L. Cole, J.D. is an advocate for social justice and cares deeply about equitable policies that address the underlying causes of racial and ethnic disparities in health and economic status. As the Director of Program Management in the RWJF Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College, she administers a Certificate in Health Policy academic program, which primarily focuses on health disparities and health equity. In her role, she manages the day-to-day activities of the grant-funded Center and holds an Instructor appointment in the School of Graduate Studies and Research where she has taught a course highlighting the role of social determinants [...]

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