Rolando Brown
NYC
Rolando Brown is a dynamic growth strategist, web developer and artist focused on the growth of social enterprises.
He currently serves as the Growth Strategist and Engineer for the Advocacy Institute. An award winning Community Developer, Artist, and Entrepreneur, Rolando cultivated his blended approaches to infrastructure development and capacity building while working as a consultant for several startups, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations.
Most of Rolando’s friends, fans, followers and inner circles call him Grow. He credits his love for living artfully and traversing the World Wide Web to being born in 1982, prophetically the same year Hip-Hop classic Wild Style was independently released; the beloved happy face emoticon was first used, and Time magazine ceremoniously decided to name "The Computer" its “Man of the Year.“
A founding member of projects like the Hip-Hop Association, MVMT, and Embassy MVMT,Rolando has received a Union Square Award for his work and appeared on BBC World News, NPR, WBAI, and LatinNation. He’s also been featured in several books on youth and urban culture and presented at conferences across the globe.
Rolando majored in Leadership and Management Studies at New York University and continues to explore human aspiration, cooperation, and conflict. Rolando also serves on the Strategy Council for ParentsTogether, the Board of Directors for Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), and the Advisory Board for the Hip-Hop Education Center at NYU Metropolitan Center for Urban Education.
He splits his time between Brooklyn, NY, and Philadelphia, PA.
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