• Share:
Name: 2021 Road Map: Black Affinity Network Group
Date: August 26, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT
Registration: Sorry, public registration for this event has been closed.
Event Description:
Join the LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Illinois as we host a continued series of discussions with our Black Affinity Networking Group. During this workshop guests will engage in interactive workshops on specific topics such as capital, marketing, technology, etc.

We will be joined by Corey Flournoy (Global Head of Inclusion and Diversity, Groupon) as he provides us with a recap on COVID's impact on Black-owned businesses, as we as a fireside chat featuring a business and their pivot story. Breakout Facilitators: Seke Ballard (Green Tree Capital), Angela Barnes (City Tech Collaborative), Vince Williams (Chicago Minority Supplier Development Council), and Larvetta Loftin (The L3 Agency). 

Thank you to our Black Affinity Network Group Sponsors: Groupon and Molson Coors

When completing your registration, please choose your topic of interest. Each breakout group will be a focused conversation. 

Session Topics: 
- Access to Capital 
- Marketing
- Technology 
- Customer Centric - Pivoting in the Times of COVID-19

Facilitators: 
Seke Ballard is the Founder & CEO of Good Tree Capital, an online lending and investing platform focused on the cannabis industry. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Seke spent two and a half years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Georgia, a post-Soviet nation. This experience shaped Seke's passion for the mechanics of capitalism and the creation of wealth. After leaving the Peace Corps, Seke earned his MBA from Harvard University and subsequently worked for both Procter & Gamble and Amazon. In 2015 Seke left corporate America to build his own company, Good Tree Capital, where the mission is to provide fair access to capital to all. 
 

Larvetta Loftin believes, ‘Your personal energy feeds into your business.’ She lives by that as the CEO and Founder of the L3 Agency (formerly L3 Eventeurs), a full-service marketing and communications agency focused on influencer marketing and delivering authentic content for brand engagement. For over 16 years, she and her company have been responsible for executing award-winning marketing and branding campaigns for Verizon, Bacardi, Toyota, McDonald’s, CVS Pharmacy, ComEd and The Chicago Community Trust, to name a few. She recently launched her own business web series, on Youtube under LarvettaSpeaks TV for women of color in Chicago to pitch for access for capital, resources, and expert mentorship. Just recently, she completed Northwestern Kellogg Advanced Management Program to advance her company’s goals. In 2018, she completed a full year of The Tuck Executive School of Business at Dartmouth (3 cohorts) as a Sundial Fellow. In her free time, she mentors and empowers young women and girls on creating scalable businesses- Her motto ‘doing what you love with kindness, grace, and excellence.’ For more info on her company, visit www.theL3agency.com and follow her socially at @larvettaspeaks.com or at Youtube@LarvettaLLoftin. 

 

Angela E.L. Barnes serves as the General Counsel and Director of Legal Affairs & Growth Initiatives for City Tech Collaborative, a nonprofit urban solutions accelerator that tackles problems too big for any single sector or organization to solve alone. Working with cross-sector teams, City Tech develops scalable, technology-enabled solutions to make cities happier, healthier, and more productive and has addressed a range of challenges such as flooding and congestion. Currently, Barnes is co-leading City Tech’s racial equity and inclusion framework, and is also spearheading City Tech’s Healthy Cities Initiative which will address multidimensional barriers facing communities that struggle to achieve positive health outcomes.Barnes chairs the board at the Center on Halsted and leads the center’s Women’s Action Council, focused on outreach and inclusion of the queer women’s community. She is on the board of Chicago Coalition for the Homeless and is former co-chair of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) Chicago Leadership Council. She co-founded SHE100, a philanthropic giving circle of lesbian and queer women.


 
Location:
Zoom
Date/Time Information:
August 26th, 2020
4:00 - 6:30pm 
Fees/Admission:
N/A