Mic Crenshaw

Mic Crenshaw is the co-founder of Global Family NetWork Mission (found at http://globalfam.org/). He has a background in Education, Art, and Social Justice activism. Global Fam provides resources and educational opportunities to communities and individuals across cultural and geographic barriers to collaborate and create better lives for themselves and each other.

Global Fam has initiated a regional tour to schools and community centers in the Pacific Northwest, as well as a series of Hip-Hop concerts headlined by socially conscious rap group, Dead Prez. Proceeds from the concert and other fund raising will go to the African Youth Initiative Network (AYINET), a youth advocacy group in Africa. Global Fam has received a computer grant from Free Geek and laptops from CTL, and will be shipping the computers to AYINET. The computers will be put to use in Rwanda and Burundi of the Great Lakes region in Africa where AYINET is conducting peace initiatives.

Upcoming Roundtables

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
In this session, Jinesh Varia, Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, will discuss the latest innovations from Amazon.com, and will focus on new technology trends like Utility computing (Paying by the hour, paying by the Gigabyte usage), Virtualization and Web Services in the Cloud and most importantly, discuss some of the innovative business models for Start-Ups, Enterprise companies and Universities.

All roundtables will be held from noon until 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time zone unless otherwise noted.