Program Overview
This program is created by Morehouse Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (MIEC) with support from JP Morgan Chase. The program is led by Terron Ferguson, the Associate Director of Morehouse’s International Comparative Labor Studies Program (ICLS) and MIEC’s Relationship Manager; Tiffany R. Bussey, Executive Director, MIEC; Bonita Seaborn-Moore, Business Manager, MIEC; Danita Harris, Program Manager, MIEC; Thema Monroe-White, Ph.D., Research Consultant; Michael Cortez, DataAnalyst, MIEC; Kylan Kester, Founding Director, Morehouse Launchpad.
■ This series of seven (7) convenings brings together leaders from foremost Business-serving Organizations (BSOs) to co-create a thorough, shared foundational framework for providing technical assistance (TA) designed to scale and grow Black businesses in Metro Atlanta.
■ MIEC is pioneering a groundbreaking Community-engaged Research (CER) methodology that:
● Centers Black professionals, their people, and their constituents as subject matter experts
● Collects the most effective, culturally-relevant theoretical approaches, practical strategies, praxis
models, and case studies from the field
● Creates a standard