Black Founders at Work: Journeys to Innovation

by Dela Wilson (Editor), Hadiyah Mujhid (Editor)

Overview

Black Founders at Work: Journeys to Innovation is a collection of firsthand insights and lived experiences of entrepreneurs and investors building high-growth technology companies. It recounts the stores of modern tech innovation directly from the Black founders and investors driving it. From military veterans to non-technical founders to chance encounters and multi-million dollar exists, Black Founders at Work: Journeys to Innovation captures the varied paths of Black excellence and innovation to, through and beyond Silicon Valley. By telling our own stories, we expand and inspire the next generation of invention.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781736952115
Publisher:	Social Good Fund
Publication date:	04/15/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Deloris "Dela" Wilson is the Founder and Principal of Axle Impact Studio, a social impact design firm repositioning economies, institutions, and human behavior for equity. As a strategist and writer, her work seeks to decolonize development efforts through an intentional redirection of capital, influence, and opportunity. She has worked across eight countries to maximize corporate impact, seed innovation in post-colonial states, and design strategies that reallocate resources for Black and Indigenous entrepreneurs, innovators, and nonprofit executives. Her strategies for entrepreneurial ecosystem development, culturally-relevant approaches to public health, and transnational racial equity span Georgetown University's Institute of Technology Law and Policy, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University, and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy (previously as Editor-in-Chief). As a graduate of Spelman College (BA, summa cum laude, political science), Georgetown University Law Center (JD), and Harvard Kennedy School of Government (MPA), she is also a Global Fellow of the Atlantic Institute and Senior Fellow for the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity. She is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Forbes Mastermind, and was recognized in 2019 as a 31 Under 31 for the Future of Venture Capital by HBCUvc.
Hadiyah Mujhid is the Founder and CEO of HBCUvc. Previously, Hadiyah co-founded the nonprofit Black Founders in 2011. Black Founders was one of the first organizations to focus on supporting Black technology entrepreneurs. Its nationwide conferences and events reached more than 500 entrepreneurs, and its programming has been successful in introducing many Black entrepreneurs to their first investors. Hadiyah has spent fifteen years as a software engineer with experience ranging from flight system software at Lockheed Martin to developing software prototypes for a mobile helicopter booking startup. Hadiyah holds an MBA from Drexel University and a BS in computer science from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, an HBCU. She is a strong advocate for leveraging technology and entrepreneurship to address economic inequality. She is recognized as a 2019 Echoing Green Fellow and 2019 Praxis Fellow. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Blavity, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Black Enterprise, and Handelsblatt.