Ruth Morrison

Not one to color inside the lines, Ruth J. Morrison is the CEO and Founder of What's The 411? Networks. She developed and launched from conception the City of New York's multi-channel cable television network and served as a senior telecommunications policy analyst for the New York City's Mayor's Office of Energy and Telecommunications. Ms. Morrison is a former Communications Director and Legislative Advisor to a New York Member of the U.S. Congress; she was the first African-American woman to cover the New York Knicks as a beat reporter and for three years she worked as a consultant in Brasil for an American company. Her international experience led her to create the Brooklyn International Trade Development Center (BITDC), the first and only small business development center in New York City whose sole mission is to help small businesses export their products to foreign markets and to invest in emerging/developing markets. A video streaming pioneer, Ms. Morrison taught telecommunications and computer science courses at Fordham University; authored several articles and reports; and was a Communications Fellow at the Annenberg Washington Program of Northwestern University. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Wagner College; a master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and she completed her coursework towards a Ph.D. in political science at Columbia University.