Cheryl Contee, ’93, is an award-winning American entrepreneur, CEO, blogger and writer. She’ll be speaking about democratizing access to capital to create the new economy that expands prosperity and equity for all. 

About the Speaker

Cheryl was a co-founder of social marketing software Attentive.ly at Blackbaud, the first tech startup with a black female founder on board in history to be acquired by a NASDAQ-traded company. Her company Fission helped write the early source code for Crowdtangle, earning sweat equity in a successful social enterprise startup acquired by Facebook in Dec 2016. She now runs Do Big Things, a digital agency that creates new narrative and new tech for a new era focused on causes and campaigns. And since she didn’t have enough to do, she wrote the Amazon bestselling book “Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success.”