WSOU: Leadership with Darrell W. Gunter - Leadership Begins With You!

Louis Mendoza - Sample Flyer (Re)constructing Memory, Place, and Identity in Twentieth Century Houston A Memoir on Family and Being Mexican American in Space City USA

Explore what it means to be Mexican American in Houston, TX, through the story of three generations of the Mendoza-Martinez family.

What does it mean to be Mexican American in Houston, TX?

For the Mendoza-Martinez family, the answer to this question is complicated and evolving. In this fascinating memoir, author Dr Louis Mendoza tells his family’s story over three generations, exploring the ongoing efforts to negotiate intense racialization in Texas. Examining questions of community, belonging and home, migrancy, and social strata, the book considers the interconnectedness of ethnic identity and place through the lens of lived experience.

Explicitly addressing the challenges of constructing—or reconstructing—a multi-generational family narrative when the traditional resources of family archives are limited, this memoir will enhance and illuminate courses in Latinx or Latin American studies, migrant studies, American studies, sociology, oral history, and cultural anthropology.

Steve Majors Author A Multiracial Experience One Man’s Search for Race, Identity, and Family

Explore themes of identity, trauma, and family with the memoirs of Steve Majors, a queer and multi-racial man from the US.

Join writer Steve Majors as he recounts his search for identity through race, family, generational trauma, queerness, and parenthood in this moving memoir.

The white-passing youngest son of a Black American family, journalist and author Steve Majors reflects on his life and experiences as a multi-racial queer man. A poignant narrative of identity formation, rejection, and re-formation, this moving memoir covers themes of generational trauma, abuse, race, sexuality, and family relationships.

Adapted for course reading from the original memoir High Yella, this book is ideal reading for higher education students of Black Studies, African American Studies, American Studies, Queer and LGBT+ Studies, Family Studies, and related courses in the social sciences.

Ms. Shedia Asiya Nelson - Author, Poet & Playwright

Shedia Asiya Nelson manages 4 programs at URGENT, Inc. and has directed, choreographed and coordinated more than 20 productions with URGENT, Inc. Her most notable youth led production series of "She Kept Her Bra On: Chronicles of a Teenage Love Affair" in promoting teen dating violence awareness was adapted to film in summer of 2013 "Keeping it On" debuted under the direction of Jalen James Acosta. Her role as an actress and screenwriter with the supporting dynamic original cast from the play was well received. Her publications extend to 10 noteworthy poetry anthologies and through her Art of Healing Writing company she has edited manuscripts for graduate level psychology, fiction and non-fiction.

Nelson is an accomplished dancer versed in traditional African dance and Brazilian samba based movement where her performance and training extends more than 20 years. In Hawai’i, she performed with Samba Axe and First Circle: African drum and dance companies. She also performed South African based dance movement at Hawai’i Pacific University’s Travel Industry Management annual banquet for three years. During her senior year at Hawai'i Pacific University she toured with Up with People's Broadway style musical production, "A Common Beat" where she was the dance lead for all of the African dances in addition to a monologue. She obtained a bachelors degree in Communications with a concentration in Theater from Hawai'i Pacific University.

Currently, she performs with Venus Rising, Delou Africa and Jude Papaloko & Loray Mistik. Dance is an evolution of transcending movement that inspires my body to speak in harmony. To dance is poetic expression like painting a canvas of melody where my heart and soul is the instrument.

Calling All Entrepreneurs to Gust.com an Interview with Peter Swan and Ryan Nash

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How does your startup stack up?

How much can you raise?

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Combine key data about your progress and hundreds of data points from angel and VC deals to get investor-level feedback on your venture. Your personalized results include:

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Dr. Sasha Noukhovitch Founder and President of STEM Fellowship

Dr. Sasha Noukhovitch, Board member, Founder and President of the STEM Fellowship, discusses the aims and objectives of STEM Fellowship.

David Myers - CEO Data Licensing Alliance

David Myers – Is a serial entrepreneur and a recurring-revenue, licensing and B2B information expert. With over 30 years experience specializing in Strategy, Sales, Legal, Licensing and Business Development, he has drafted, negotiated and closed over 500 domestic and international licensing agreements with partners, customers and distributors.

David talks about his new venture Data Licensing Alliance.

Greg Duffell - CEO Vulcain.AI

CEO Greg Duffell of Vulcain.AI discusses their tech, Causal insights in real-time on metrics that impact your portfolio from millions of data sets, amplify your intelligence at light speed with Vulcain.

Art Jones - Founder, Its Your Story Lab

Art Jones the Founder of Its My Story Lab shares his timeless expertise about authentic story telling and how it can be used in any business or personal setting.  

Art is a returning guest and his insights never disappoint.

Atinuke Akinwunmi CEO inumidun international inc, dba PURH20 & Author

Atinuke entrepreneur and author talks about her two books, “Water The Miracle of Life and “Sweet Surrender” and her water business Purh20.

Wendy Howell - Founder Executive Council Network Creating A Value Based Community

Our mission is to “Elevate Executives to Drive Global Impact.” Executive Council Network (ECN) is an exclusive platform that elevates Global 2000 & Fortune 500 executives from Directors to C-Suite to drive global impact. Out of the desire & need for effective collaboration and partnerships in 2020 between executives, ECN was born to exclusively add value to all current and former executives in building their presence & influence, executive network, and knowledge of investments in early stage emerging technologies. We strive to have only members who are already accomplished executives that are life-long learners, understand the power of connections, and continue to take risk and  innovate in their career.

We are a unique Venture Fund investing in companies that are building the next generation of intelligent enterprise software products. With an unfair advantage from our network of senior executives and vast experience in M&A within enterprise software, the Executive Enterprise Venture Fund is well positioned to outperform in the VC industry.