Archives: People
AJ “El Kallejero” Ramos
By ADCOLOR September 5, 2020 |AJ “El Kallejero” Ramos, from West New York with El Salvador roots and product of an immigrant family, is the US Latin and Latin America Artist Relations Manager at YouTube. He is responsible for building, maintaining and fostering YouTube’s relationships with artists and the music industry while encouraging engagement and generating strategic partnerships across the […]
Candace Queen – Speaker
By ADCOLOR September 5, 2020 |Candace is a multidisciplinary designer + creative director and educator, committed to building racial equity through design and nourished by a passion for cultural archival + preservation. After several years working in Chicago’s advertising playground, she’s now based in Beaumont, TX, not too far from her hometown of Port Arthur. Here she’s found a special […]
John Petty lll
By ADCOLOR September 5, 2020 |Philadelphia native and Lincoln University (PA) alum, John Petty, III — “JP” — leads social strategy development for the likes of McDonald’s, Bud Light, Ford, Heinz, and Delta at Wieden + Kennedy New York after the previous 5 and half years at advertising agency, Translation. In November of 2017, he worked closely with music and […]
Alex Perez
By ADCOLOR September 5, 2020 |Alex Perez is a national correspondent for ABC News. His work can be seen on “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight,” “Nightline,” and “20/20.” Since joining ABC in 2012, Alex has criss-crossed the country, and globe, to file his reports. He covered hurricanes along the east coast and Caribbean; he was in Ferguson, Missouri in […]
Peppermint
By ADCOLOR September 5, 2020 |Peppermint’s star has continued to rise since her smashing success as first runner up on Season 9 of Rupaul’s Drag Race. Soon after she became the first trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway when she was cast as Pythio in the groundbreaking Broadway musical Head Over Heels. For Over a decade Peppermint […]
Melonie Parker
By ADCOLOR September 5, 2020 |Melonie Parker is the Chief Diversity Office at Google. Melonie has an extensive HR background spanning 20 years. In her 3 years at Google, she has been a People Partner and Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Prior to joining Google served as the Vice President of Human Resources & Communications at Sandia National Laboratories […]
Tomi Omololu-Lange
By ADCOLOR September 5, 2020 |Tomi Omololu-Lange is a producer of Enterprise and Immersive Experiences at TIME. She launched TIME Immersive, TIME’s first AR/VR mobile app. For its inaugural experience, she produced “Landing on the Moon” a historically accurate 3-D re-creation of the Apollo 11 moon landing for the 50th anniversary. She also produced “Inside the Amazon: The Dying Forest”, […]
Jasmine O’Neill
By ADCOLOR September 5, 2020 |Human Resources and Recruiting professional and business school graduate with experience in various HR related functions including recruitment, training and development, employee engagement, on-boarding, organizational development and HRIS. Industry experience in healthcare, legal, consumer packaged goods and tech. Currently recruiting top talent with a passion for diversity.
Evelyn Ngugi
By ADCOLOR September 5, 2020 |I’m Evelyn – a humor writer + digital storyteller based in Austin, Texas. That just means I post funny words and videos on the Internet. Add “influencer” if you want to send me free lotion or something. I love a good lotion. Life makes me laugh! I make a grab bag of content with varying […]
Rathi Murthy
By ADCOLOR September 5, 2020 |Rathi Murthy is CTO for Verizon Media. Recognized as a transformative technology executive, Rathi oversees Verizon Media’s global technology strategy, leading the company’s continued innovations in 5G while also managing the platform technology and infrastructure. Previously, Rathi was Senior Vice President and CTO for Gap, Inc. where she developed an end to end technology strategy […]