​Urban League of Portland Young Professionals
​MEET THERESSA DULANEY
Recently honored as a 40 under 40 for Multichannel News, I’m an accomplished communications executive who makes a difference for individuals, teams, organizations, and communities.
From being a member of a senior leadership team for Comcast Corporation—a Fortune 50 Company--to serving as the company spokesperson, to dramatically affecting employee participation in community impact events, I’m someone who top leaders and stakeholders count on to deliver outstanding results.
Whether for business or non-profit organizations, I bring innovative ideas for changing hearts and minds through communication. I take out jargon and business-speak and create visual communications that make a difference.
A storyteller at heart, I understand how to create communications to move businesses forward.
Known for my vision and creativity, I devise programs, communications, and inventive concepts to help a business communicate—whether internally to its employees or externally to its customers and community.
My work is about not only PR and communications, but also business. I’m comfortable working in technology, operations, and finance, and at the same time, I have a reputation as an approachable and leader who brings out the best in others and has people align around a common vision.
My strengths include:
✬Trusted and innovative leader
I create high performance teams and take them to the next level.
I understand what motivates people and am skilled at having others collaborate to reach shared goals.
✬Communication strategy and execution
I condense diverse information to the key message and take out the clutter and ensure that the message resonates with all relevant audiences.
✬Committed, fast learner
I’m constantly pushing myself to learn more and to go beyond any designated function.
✬Community investment
It’s critical to me to give back through my organization’s giving programs and to build relationships community relationships.
​MEET MICHAEL GREEN
Co-founder and Executive Director of ScaleUp America, a national nonprofit dedicated to changing the economic narrative across urban and rural America, connecting economically disconnected communities with local innovation ecosystems and promoting the 21st century economic vision of Inclusive Competitiveness. ScaleUp America is a commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative's High-Growth Entrepreneurship Working Group and partnered with the White House Tech Inclusion Roundtable and Microsoft in a pilot project: Activating Local Communities.
ScaleUp America is also coordinating a national Inclusive Competitiveness Summit series aligned with the objectives of President Obama's recently launched My Brother's Keeper initiative to empower boys and young men of color.
Founder of Saving America's Black Boys Solutions Summit series. Invited back-to-back years (2013-2014) to present at SXSWedu Conference in Austin, TX.
Consultant and strategic advisor on developing inclusive innovation ecosystems in universities, governments and tech-based economic development organizations.
Consultant to UNCF in production of the first-ever HBCU Innovation Summit in Silicon Valley and continuing branding and developmental relations between Silicon Valley and the 105 universities and colleges that comprise the HBCU community.
Consultant and Mentor to Media, Tech and Social entrepreneurs
Helped develop the nation's sole minority media entrepreneurship program
As co-founder of ScaleUp America (formerly The America21 Project), Mike produced the nation's first Gathering of Angels, Minority Biomedical Entrepreneurship Conference, Closing the Innovation-Wealth Gap Conference, and a number of other networking summits and conferences that connected entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers.
New York Times Leadership Academy Fellow
Training in Social Media at CNN.com
Award-winning Media Innovations Strategist for Dow Jones Local Media Group
Award-winning print and digital journalist, editor and media strategist with 18 years experience
Columnist for the Huffington Post and Oregon Business magazine
Contributor to numerous media, including The Washington Post, NPR, PBS and others
Public Speaker on issues of economic inclusion, STEM education, Pipeline to Productivity processes, Innovation Ecosystems and the America's Innovation Economy