le’kiesha french
Le’Kiesha, founder of the Green Project and PRENEURology Global, is an advocate for equity in entrepreneurship.
Le’Kiesha French has nearly two decades of global business development experience. Her latest venture, The Future in Color and its associated FIC Labs, is dedicated to accelerating equity and economic empowerment by 2045, when Black and Latino communities are expected to overtake the U.S. demographic majority.
Le’Kiesha has positioned herself as an inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem-building expert, and her consulting work with stakeholders to build equitable models, programming and tools has transformed the landscape of early-stage startups, small businesses, educational institutions, corporations and government agencies.
Le’Kiesha also founded and serves as executive producer for the Green Project, which tracks and quantifies the contributions of Black innovators and entrepreneurs to increase investment in high-growth Black businesses. She also founded PRENEURology Global and co-founded Weed Street.
The former empowers people through entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem building, while the latter is a first-of-its-kind cannabis fintech company that is the only Black-owned and female-led credit union democratizing access to wealth creation for cannabis businesses and consumers.
Expertise: business development; entrepreneurship; equity; economic empowerment; innovation; ecosystem building; small business; startups; wealth generation; fintech; Black empowerment
Relevant links:
Supercreator: Why one Black woman chose the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington to launch the next big think tank
NewsOne: Future In Color: Black Economic Blueprint Launches Ahead Of March On Washington 60th Anniversary
WWL-TV: Essence emphasizes empowering Black business, wealth building
Georgia Institute of Technology: Georgia Institute of Technology Collaborates with Morehouse College and PRENEURology Global to Boost Minority Innovation in Metro Areas
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