September 21 - 27, 2020

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Olatunji Oboi reed Oboi Reed is founding President & CEO of Equiticity, a racial equity movement, programming and advocating for racial equity, increased mobility, and racial justice to improve the lives of Black and Brown people across the United States. He works globally as a racial equity tactician, increased mobility advocate, and racial justice activist. With an extensive background in both nonprofit management and corporate social responsibility, he is most proud of his work to create a diverse coalition of people, organizations and businesses, all working together to achieve racial equity and mobility justice across the city of Chicago. Oboi co-founded and recently served as the President & CEO of the Slow Roll Chicago bicycle movement. Slow Roll Chicago is working to build an equitable, diverse, and inclusive bicycle culture in Chicago by organizing community bicycle rides and advocating for bicycle equity.

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Britney Robbins Britney Robbins is founder The Gray Matter Experience, a nonprofit dedicated to unlocking the self-determining power of Black youth and strengthening their ties to community through real world experience in entrepreneurship that has served over 300 Chicago youth in its mission. Britney is a serial social entrepreneur who loves innovation, forward thinking and who is constantly identifying problems that can be solved through business creation. She's been active in Chicago's entrepreneurship and tech community for the past seven years with some of Chicago's top venture capital firms and incubators, including Sandbox Industries, Lightbank and 1871. Britney is passionate about improving the well-being of Black communities and is focused on providing quality resources, more direct access and education to see that vision made reality.


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