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Info Session: Brown Institute Venture Challenge Competition
February 17, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
The Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School, in partnership with the Spring ’23 Columbia Venture Competition and Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Design are pleased to announce a competition for Columbia students, alumni, and their collaborators.
Now in its second year, this Journalism Challenge rewards new entrepreneurial ventures in journalism, media and technology. Perhaps you want to create new kinds of journalism or new kinds of content, design new forms of participation, contribute to our understanding of media and society, or experiment with entirely new ways to communicate.
Join us for this info session designed for the Spring ’23 Brown Institute Innovation Challenge in Journalism, Media, and Technology where you will hear from the Brown Institute and Columbia Entrepreneurship teams, hear from past winners, and meet Justin Hendrix who will facilitate the summer fellowship program at the Brown Institute.
About Summer Delaney — Winner of the 2022 Brown Institute Innovation Challenge
Summer will be sharing her best tips for competing in the Innovation Challenge. Summer is an award-winning journalist, content strategist, and member of the creator community. She is the founder and CEO of CollabWORK, the first community-empowered hiring platform that leverages online communities and advanced AI algorithms to match talent with top creative jobs.
Over the past decade, Summer has grown digital communities and produced award-winning content at CNN, Yahoo News with Katie Couric, CBS Interactive and Tribune Media where her videos have received over 500 million views. She has also worked as a consultant and a program manager at Amazon Studios, News Corp, Protégé and Wilde. Summer was honored by the New York State Broadcasters Association during the Excellence in Broadcasting Awards for “Outstanding Social Media Personality.” Her work also contributed to Tribune Media winning several digital innovation awards from the Local Media Association, including best social media strategy and best new digital initiative.
Summer received her BS from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and her MBA from Columbia Business School.
About CollabWORK
CollabWORK is revolutionizing the $140B staffing and talent search industry by leveraging online communities and advanced AI algorithms to match talent with top jobs. Unlocking the power of endorsement at scale through access to curated and exclusive networks, our subscription-based product distributes creative, media, and communications jobs to vetted professional communities of qualified candidates. Our proprietary referral and AI-vetting approach alleviates expensive and arduous recruiting processes for companies, providing the highest quality talent at unparalleled speed and cost efficiency (on average, referred candidates are hired 55% faster than candidates sourced via traditional job sites).
About Justin Hendrix – CEO and Editor, Tech Policy Press. Justin will lead the summer program
Justin is the Founder, CEO, and Editor of the Tech Policy Press, a not-for-profit media and community venture that seeks to advance and influence the public discourse on the relationship between technology and democracy. Justin also currently holds an appointment at New York University as an adjunct Instructor of Integrated Digital Media at the Tandon School of Engineering.
Prior to his current positions, Justin was the Executive Director of the New York City Media Lab which connects companies seeking to advance digital media technologies with university capabilities in order to drive entrepreneurship and innovation. Launched by the New York City Economic Development Corporation, NYU, and Columbia University, NYC Media Lab is a public-private partnership encompassing all the universities of NYC and corporate members such as Viacom, ESPN, Bloomberg, MLB Advanced Media, The Weather Company, Singtel, Hearst, Verizon, Weather Company, NBCUniversal and more. The Lab’s goal is to generate fresh thinking that creates value through research, prototyping, knowledge transfer, talent development, and entrepreneurship.