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- Relationship Status:
- Married
- About Me:
- For more than a dozen years now, I’ve devoted every day to making Detroit a better place to live, work and play. As a marketing professional, I’ve worked alongside a global entrepreneur to develop concepts and companies in the restaurant, media, retail, entertainment, homeland security and technology industries. I also helped my family start a successful company in my hometown of New York City. And, as director of marketing for an international franchise, I trained more than 500 business owners in marketing and public relations.
Because my love for my people and of all children runs deep, I decided to apply my professional experience and business acumen to help in a broader, more meaningful capacity. Lord knows I get so tired hearing about all the problems we face and endure, when what we really need to start talking and being about is solutions.
So, three years ago, while still hard at work in and on Detroit, I started to research and write a business plan for my new company, UniTee Design. As a youth enrichment and ethnic empowerment enterprise, its primary mission is to rally Black Unity so we can find and deliver better ways to ensure our youth have more academic successes. I truly believe education is critical to uplifting the course of our future. And the most effective way to teach our children is together, one community, one parent and one person at a time.
I didn’t think it wise to rely on George or General Motors to give our young generation all they need to succeed, so I decided to produce and sell designer tee-shirts that represented the beautiful colors of our unity to fund leading youth education programs, and would create awareness, dialogue and, most of all, movement in my (and our) mission.
While it took a long leap of strong faith to jump from a well paying job and fruitful career, and put my own monies and my family’s well being at risk, my sole goal now and every day is to improve the quality of our children by promoting and supporting their quality of life and learning.
I’m inspired to know there are a lot of people who value the urgency we all should have in improving youth education. And while strides have been made, there’s still so much we can and must do. If you’d like to learn more about UniTee Design and its programs, products and mission, please visit www.uniteedesign.com.
- Interests:
- Youth enrichment advocacy
Youth education and "edutainment"
- Favorite Sneaker:
- RBG's for the feet
- Favorite Music:
- Old School
- Favorite Movies:
- Hasn't been filmed yet
- Favorite Books or Magazines:
- Most African American authors
- Favorite Website:
- http://www.uniteedesign.com
R. Lee Gordon's Blog
The RBG Colors of Better Education
Posted on June 1st, 2008 at 2:01pm —
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