Fireside Chat: Entrepreneurship & Economic Justice

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Black BRAND

520 E. Main Street, Suite 4
Norfolk, VA 23510

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Organizer: Black BRAND

Phone: +1 7572887400

Contact Person: Courtney Sessoms

Email: courtney.sessoms@blackbrand.biz

Event Details

Everyone should have access to the resources to build a business that provides a means to support their family. Victor Hwang has written a powerful manifesto, that if implemented globally, would have an immediate and untold economic impact.

Please take a look at this essay and read it prior to coming to the event.

Breakfast served.

Documents

We+Are+All+Starters+Manifesto.pdf

Speakers

Blair Durham

President & Co-Founder of Black BRAND

Blair Durham

President & Co-Founder of Black BRAND

https://www.blackbrand.biz

Blair Durham is Co-Founder/President and current B-Force Program Director at Black BRAND.

Blair Durham is Co-Founder and President of Black BRAND, a 501c3 organization founded in 2016, whose acronym encompasses business, research and analytics, networking, and the development of black commerce. Beginning in Hampton Roads and now also operating in the Dan River Region, Black BRAND serves as a regional black chamber of commerce organizing programming to support emerging and existing black business owners. Blair is a Hampton Roads native, a graduate of Virginia Tech, the host of Black Wall Street Today, and a proud board member of The Virginia Zoological Park and Volunteer Hampton Roads. Most proudly, Blair resides in Portsmouth with her husband and three children.

Victor W. Hwang

CEO of Right to Start

Victor W. Hwang

CEO of Right to Start

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e9e0656b3d1de64a274167f/t/5ed9489713ecb34b7f4705d5/1591298210626/We+Are+All+Starters+Manifesto.pdf

Victor W. Hwang is an economic growth expert. His ideas have shaped the economic lives of millions of people worldwide. His work has helped over 300 communities, cities, states, companies, and entire countries create greater prosperity.

Victor’s path was inspired by his parents, as educators who had to start a business to afford sending him to Harvard. But after the first day of Economics at Harvard, Victor left the class and never returned. He realized that Economics – the way it was taught at elite institutions – was flawed. It didn’t account for his parents, and all the ordinary people like them trying to make their way. Victor’s life’s journey followed from that day. He searched for answers to the questions, “How can we create prosperity by taking into account everyday people? How do we make a world that doesn’t stand in their way?”

Victor became an entrepreneur and started several companies, organizations, and initiatives fighting to remove barriers holding people back. Previously, he was Vice President of Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation, the world’s leading philanthropy supporting entrepreneurs with an endowment of $2 billion.

Victor pioneered the concept of “rainforest” ecosystems in a business context by showing how communities can replicate the historical innovation dynamics of Silicon Valley. His book, The Rainforest, was awarded Book of the Year, Gold Medal, by ForeWord Reviews for “a big idea that defines a way of thinking.”

National Public Radio named Victor's graduation address to Austin Community College one of “the best commencement speeches ever.”

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Member Price $10

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