New York host
Tina Roth Eisenberg
@swissmiss
Alex Chung
June 21, 8:30am - 10:00am EDT. Hosted at BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)
About the speaker
Alex Chung is currently the founder and CEO of Giphy, the people who bring you all the GIFs.
Before founding Giphy, he worked on hardware at Intel and music videos at MTV as well as over a dozen startups over the last 20 years.
He was named on Business Insider’s Top 25 most influential technologists in New York, Ad Age’s 50 most creative people, Fast Company’s most creative people in business right next to Beyoncé, and has degrees in philosophy, computer engineering, and graphic design.
Local partners
More than 15 million people and businesses around the world use Mailchimp’s marketing automation platform to to reach their customers and grow their business. Mailchimp shares CreativeMornings’ belief that we’re better when we work together.
Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Our tools and services allow our customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time, and achieve greater business success. We help our customers make, manage, measure, and monetize their content across every channel and screen.
WordPress.com is proud to sponsor CreativeMornings! WordPress.com helps millions of people create beautiful websites for small business, publishing, and blogging. We host sites for some of the biggest companies in the world – including Microsoft, News Corp., and The New York Times – and our users publish more than 80 million new posts every month.
Local Partner — Harvest
Harvest is a web-based time tracking and invoicing application relied on by thousands of people around the world, from freelancers to small businesses to departments of Fortune 500 companies. Harvest founders Danny Wen and Shawn Liu had searched for tools to help their agency scale with more efficient methods to track time and send invoices. Unable to find one, they invested their own time, energy, and money into creating what they knew was a better way to run the business—and Harvest was born.
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) is a multi-arts center located in Brooklyn, New York. For more than 150 years, BAM has been the home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas—engaging both global and local communities. With world-renowned programming in theater, dance, music, opera, film, and much more, BAM showcases the work of emerging artists and innovative modern masters.
Additional details
Our volunteer sign interpreter, Canara Price, joins us again this month.
Reserved seats are available for anyone who is Deaf or hard of hearing. Email us to reserve a ticket.
About our interpreter: Canara Price volunteers in the deaf community as an interpreter for civil rights organizations, churches, and several schools and agencies. She is the founder and executive director of People’s Theatre, Inc., a non-profit organization exposing under privileged communities to the performing arts. She has produced and/or directed over 40 productions with this company. She is also an award winning producer and director as well as a member of Black Deaf Advocates, the SAG/AFTRA, National Association of Black Journalists, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and the National Council of Negro Women.
We have a musical guest this month!
Sarah Goldstone is a pianist, keyboardist, vocalist, violinist, and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds degrees from Boston University (philosophy, musicology) and Mannes The New School for Music (piano performance). Classically trained, she currently performs, records, and tours in a wide variety of genres. TV appearances include Conan, The Today Show, Later With Jools Holland and Good Morning America. Venues of note are Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, the Ryman Auditorium and the Fillmore in San Francisco. She has played at Coachella, Byron Bay Bluesfest, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Madcool Madrid, among many others. Over the years, she has toured and recorded on keys with Hurray for the Riff Raff, How to Dress Well, Ex Reyes, Matt Sucich, Alex Winston, Merrily James, Alison Sudol, and Rocket and the Ghost. Her first ep of solo music will be released in 2019. You can follow Sarah on Instagram: @sargold
