Bard Alumnus, Designer Brandon Blackwood ’13 Speaks at Vice President Kamala Harris’s Roundtable for Young Entrepreneurs of Color
Brandon Blackwood ’13. Courtesy of Brandon Blackwood NYC
Brandon Blackwood ’13, Bard alumnus and designer, was invited to speak at the White House by Vice President Kamala Harris as part of the Young Men of Color Small Business Roundtable. Blackwood was one of more than 35 entrepreneurs and small business owners of color to attend the event, where Vice President Harris discussed resources and opportunities offered by the Biden-Harris Administration, reported Essence. In opening remarks, Vice President Harris spoke of the importance of access and resources to overcome obstacles faced by many businesses owned by people of color, including “access to capital, access to markets, access to consumers—access—and what can we do to facilitate and better improve access so that you can then be out there to compete.”
“It was really amazing to see a room full of black entrepreneurs being heard or listened to and voicing their opinions,” Blackwood told Essence. “That was a really beautiful and cool thing to see that I wasn’t the only person that had these issues and that these issues were things that people such as Madam Vice President wanted to address and talk about.”
Post Date: 05-31-2023
“It was really amazing to see a room full of black entrepreneurs being heard or listened to and voicing their opinions,” Blackwood told Essence. “That was a really beautiful and cool thing to see that I wasn’t the only person that had these issues and that these issues were things that people such as Madam Vice President wanted to address and talk about.”
Post Date: 05-31-2023