When it gets harder to love, love harder. Place I work: • CNN Companies I help lead: • MagicLabsMedia.com (1 Emmy Award + 1 Lumiere Award + 2 Webby Awards + 1 Webby nomination) • License To Dream Fund • Obsidian Equity Partners • Rapport • Astrion What I truly love: • My 3 kids • The Earth • God (especially the black female version) How I nerd: • Marvel (over DC) • Star Wars (over Star Trek) • Sci-Fi/Fantasy (over Horror/Zombie/Vampire) Books written: • Beyond The Messy Truth: How we came apart & how we come together (2017: NYT Bestseller) • Rebuild The Dream: A roadmap for progressives (2012: NYT Bestseller) • The Green-Collar Economy (2008: NYT Bestseller) TEDs talked: • What If A U.S. Presidential Candidate Refuses To Concede? (#2 TED TALK OF 2020 —> 6.7M views) • The Economic Injustice of Plastic (TEDx 2011) Organizations launched: • DreamMachine.Org (2023) • REFORMalliance.com (2019) • Dream.Org (2011) [once called TheDreamCorps.Org] • GreenForAll.org (2008) • ColorOfChange.org (2005) • EllaBakerCenter.org (1996) Shows hosted: • Uncommon Ground Podcast (Amazon) • The Van Jones Show (CNN) • The Redemption Project (CNN) • The Messy Truth (CNN) • Be Woke Vote webisodes (2018) Places I learned stuff: • MIT Media Lab (2014-2016 Fellow) • Princeton University (2010-2011 Fellow) • Yale Law School (Class of 1993) • University of Tennessee at Martin (Class of 1990) • Jackson Central-Merry High School (Class of 1986) Coolest bosses, so far: • President Obama • Prince • Jay-Z