Creative Oklahoma elected Robyn Elliott, Cabinet Secretary for the Department of Communications and Community Development at The Chickasaw Nation as its new board chairman for FY20. “It’s great to have Robyn coming in as board chair at this particular time because, after being in existence for 12 years, we are now at a time where…
Article from Velocity – Greater Oklahoma City Chamber (JULY 30, 2019) Anyone’s who’s done it can tell you – launching and growing a successful business from the seed of an idea is not for the faint of heart. It’s hard. It’s stressful. And it’s lonely a lot of the times. Yet, the ability of the…
OKLAHOMA CITY (July 30th, 2019) — Creative Oklahoma (COK) is hosting a group of 18 experienced foreign faculty and practitioners who are visiting Oklahoma and two other states as part of a U.S. State Department-funded program to study socioeconomic trends that have changed the concept of work, workforce development and career paths in the United…
OKLAHOMA CITY (June 18, 2019)— Two Oklahomans representing the nonprofit organization Creative Oklahoma traveled to three cities in Germany to study their significant successes in developing diverse and robust economies through improving community livability via urban place-making, investing in community-accessible high performance computing and strategically nurturing ecosystems that support growth in a wide variety of…
New Oklahoma Entrepreneur Mentoring Program (OKEMP) Officially Launches With Five Entrepreneur Teams
Oklahoma City – Creative Oklahoma has chosen five promising entrepreneurs to be the first included in its inaugural Oklahoma Entrepreneur Mentorship Program (OKEMP), an initiative licensed from and modeled after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Venture Mentoring Service. This statewide non-profit program provides free in-person mentorship and coaching to emerging entrepreneurs by matching them with…
Oklahoma City — Governor Kevin Stitt will designate eight prominent Oklahomans as Oklahoma Creativity Ambassadors on Monday evening, April 8th, at the Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City. The 2019 Ambassador honorees who will be present to receive their awards from Governor Stitt will be Mr. C. Kendrick Fergeson, Nationally recognized advocate for arts…
Date: January 15, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:Stephanie Coderre Porras405.232.5570 x2stephanie@creativeoklahoma.org As a founding board member of Creative Oklahoma in 2006, and President/CEO of the nonprofit since 2011, Susan McCalmont, noted nonprofit leader and creativity advocate, is retiring from the organization. She will hand the reigns to state legislator, Meloyde Blancett, who will serve…
OKLAHOMA CITY (November 6th, 2018) – Creative Oklahoma is partnering with one of Oklahoma’s Creativity Ambassadors, Suzy Amis Cameron, to host the first Creative Oklahoma’s Ambassador Spotlight dinner and auction on Friday, November 16, 2018. The presenting sponsor is Urban Farmhouse. Suzy Amis Cameron is a native of Oklahoma City and has remained committed to…
A noted environmental advocate, founder and mother of five, Suzy Amis Cameron is committed to the principles of sustainability in all aspects of our lives, with emphasis on plant-based solutions to address climate change. She is the author of OMD: The Simple, Plant-Based Program to Save Your Health, Save Your Waistline, and Save the Planet (Simon & Schuster/Atria,…
OKLAHOMA CITY (September 24th) – A select group of Oklahoma business owners, students, entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders are travelling to Antwerp, Belgium to participate in the international District of Creativity Network’s 2018 Creativity World Forum (CWF) September 26-30, 2018. Two students from Northeastern State University, Trenton Morgan and Ricardo Oropeza, were selected to represent Oklahoma…
