ADCOLOR exists to support and inspire professionals of color and diversity champions in the advertising, marketing, media and PR industries. We celebrate the role models and the rising stars. Yet…
When Boris Kodjoe speaks to students at Brand U, a program he created through the United Negro College Fund, he is passionate about how important it is to brand yourself.…
CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien says it all started quietly with an eighth-grader named Alexia Wilson from New Orleans. Alexia couldn’t afford the tuition to the private high…
John Osborn President & Chief Executive Officer | BBDO, New York “We cannot do what we do without diversity,” says John Osborn. Those are words that guide the head of BBDO’s flagship…
Louis Carr President of Media Sales | BET Networks Louis Carr’s success at BET has made him one of the most influential African Americans in the media industry. But the company’s…
Johnathan A. Rodgers Former President And CEO | TV One Like many students at UC Berkeley in the 60s, Johnathan Rodgers set out to change the world. He protested for civil rights…
Lila Consuelo Anton Assistant Account Executive | TBWA\ Media Arts Lab Lila Consuelo Anton is the poster child for global multiculturalism. She was born in Japan to an African-American mother from Washington…
Andre Woolery Digital Synthesis Director | kbs+ The Media Kitchen Don’t tell Andre Woolery to stick to his day job. As digital synthesis director at kbs+ The Media Kitchen, Woolery can be found,…
Tim Allen VP, Creative Director | R/GA Tim Allen is the living embodiment of the phrase, “If you build it, they will come.” The award-winning “experience designer” constructed his own path to…
Jerime Black National Sales and Marketing Manager | Barefoot Wine & Bubbly As far as he knows, Jerime Black is the only person in the wine industry with the title “national sales…
Fleishman-Hillard & Open Channels Group Three years ago, Fleishman-Hillard International Communications wanted to increase the diversity of its team managing the AT&T business and also sought to identify smaller, minority-owed businesses…
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