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Chris Rabb :: Board Member
February 23, 2009
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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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