Imani Ellis: The Creative Collective and CultureCon Founder and CEO

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Imani Ellis is the founder and CEO of The Creative Collective and CultureCon. Imani studied communications in college and soon after began her career as an NBC Page at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. After just two months, she was plucked from the program for a job in communications at Bravo. She spent the next few years at NBCUniversal, rising through the ranks, but she craved a more authentic connection and collaboration. In 2016, she founded The Creative Collective from her living room. What started as a weekly gathering for Black and Brown creatives quickly outgrew her apartment, as Imani realized there was a real need for these spaces. In 2017, she created CultureCon, a conference that brought together Black and Brown voices to collaborate and celebrate each other. Over the next few years, she scaled CultureCon considerably by moving to larger venues; inviting guests such as Tracee Ellis Ross and Regina King; and working with brands like Target, Google, HBO, and Netflix. In 2022, she left NBCUniversal, where she’d risen to VP of communications, unscripted entertainment publicity, to pursue her projects full-time. This year’s CultureCon, presented in partnership with Max, wrapped up just this past weekend.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Walmart.
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0:41.3	through the end of October.
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0:48.1	and find all the things you love today. Hi everyone, I'm Hillary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of who what where, and this is Second
1:05.8	Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
1:11.3	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of
1:14.5	setting aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their
1:18.8	second life. Today on the show I'm speaking with the founder and CEO of both the Creative Collective and Culture
1:26.3	Con. Imani Ellis. Imani is one of those people who saw a gap and didn't wait for someone else to fill it, she did it herself.
1:35.8	In 2016, after a successful run in the NBC Page Program, she was working in communications
1:42.3	at Bravo, but she was missing a sense of community and connection with other black and brown creatives.
1:49.0	So, in her free time, she founded the Creative Collective from her living room in Harlem as a
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