Please join us at our Annual Meeting and Elections on Thursday, June 10th at 7 PM. The Nominating Committee will be presenting nominees for Officers and for the Board of Directors.
All active EMAN members will be eligible to vote on the slate. Become a member here by 5pm on June 9th to be eligible to vote.
View the list of nominees here.
Guest Speaker: Representative Christopher M. Rabb
Chris Rabb is a father, educator, author, consultant, and member of the Pennsylvania House of Representative representing roughly 65,000 people in upper northwest Philadelphia.
A former U.S. Senate legislative aide and writer, researcher and trainer at the White House Conference on Small Business in the Clinton administration, Rabb is a thought leader at the intersection of politics, media entrepreneurship and social identity.
While a visiting researcher at Princeton University, Rabb wrote the ground-breaking book, Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity (2010) which addresses modern U.S. entrepreneurship through the lens of structural inequality.
In 2011, Rabb was recruited to teach at Temple University Fox School of Business where he was the Social Impact Fellow at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute and taught social entrepreneurship and organizational innovation.
In his fourth year of teaching at Temple, Rep. Rabb helped to successfully unionize 1,500 fellow adjunct professors in a landslide victory for worker rights.
He was a long-time board member of the national racial justice think tank, Race Forward, and the oldest Black, family-owned newspaper in the U.S., the Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper Company, founded by his great-great grandfather in 1892.
In 2018, Rep. Rabb successfully created the first of its kind Equity Committee within the Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus and is its founding chair which evaluates and makes recommendations regarding social equity issues related to policy, membership, personnel, legal, procurement, communications and appropriations.
Rabb has been a fellow at Demos, the Poynter Institute and the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. and presently serves on the boards of the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators (NCEL), the executive committee of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL) and a member of the National Conference of State Legislators’ Energy Supply Task Force.
A graduate of Yale College and the University of Pennsylvania, Rep. Rabb is a native of Chicago and an avid family historian and genealogist.
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