Fennella Bruce Interviews Community Influencers Melisa Ellis & Itah Sadu
About this event
is an extraordinary entrepreneur, writer, media producer and mediator of the Inspire Series. Throughout the series, she shares her stories as a journalist and media creator to the producer for CTV News Channel, Your Morning, and Canada AM. She is also the founder of FKB Media Solutions, a company that helps businesses, startups, professionals, and others develop powerful and successful media strategies.
is a digital transformation strategist and the founder of , a company based on creating a network of professionals and building a social enterprise to inspire socio-economic growth within Black communities. Melisa is a strategic technology enthusiast passionate about impacting change through innovation and project management. Her work focuses on providing proactive and engaged leadership to a diverse range of technology projects and startups.
is an author, story-teller and co-owner of Toronto bookstore . Itah has been a community developer, entrepreneur and educator in Toronto for decades. She's heavily involved in North York activism and has developed youth programs that serve as models for job placement opportunities, skills development and leaders-in-training programming to youths, plus the Walk for Excellence, in partnership with York University, to help empower graduating students from the Jane and Finch neighbourhood.Itah is a founding member of the Underground Freedom Ride, which celebrates Emancipation Day. She has designed, developed and implemented programs for youths in Aboriginal and racialized communities who reside in high density neighbourhoods. She鈥檚 also a Harry Jerome Scholarship Trustee. Her books are adopted by schools into the curriculum. She鈥檚 also a founding member of MY People Literary Awards and the Black Book Affair.