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Chris Rabb :: Board Member |
February 23, 2009
Chris is a consultant, writer and speaker focusing on the confluence of
race/identity, media/technology, civic engagement and entrepreneurship.
He is a fellow with Demos and a 2001 American Marshall Memorial
Fellowship recipient, awarded by the German Marshall Fund of the U.S.
Currently, Chris is writing a book about modern American forces,
tentatively entitled, Invisible Capital, which analyzes the often
unseen forces that shape entrepreneurial opportunity in America.
From 1993-1995, Chris worked in the U.S. Senate and the White House
Conference on Small Business where he focused on policies and
legislation that impacted small businesses. From 1995 through 2001,
Chris worked at Stono Technologies, LLC, a technology-based product
design firm which he co-founded in his native Chicago. Upon moving to
Philadelphia, Chris ran a nationally recognized non-profit-based
business incubator and later set up a consultancy specializing in
organizational productivity services targeting small businesses,
start-up ventures, non-profits and select political campaigns.
In 1999, Chris founded Afro-Netizen
, a pioneering, e-mail-based news and information aggregator for
African Americans nationwide. Initially run as a civic avocation,
Afro-Netizen has been formalized in its 10th year as a hybrid
organization consisting of a for-profit enterprise (Afro-Netizen L3C)
and non-profit corporation (Maroon Commonwealth, Inc.).
Chris is a graduate of Yale College and earned an M.S. in
Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania. He serves
on the boards of the Applied Research Center (Oakland, CA) and the
Bread & Roses Community Fund (Philadelphia, PA).
In 2006, was elected as a Democratic Committeeperson in his
neighborhood of Mt. Airy in northwest Philadelphia where he lives with
his wife, law professor Imani Perry, and their two sons, Freeman Diallo
and Issa.
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