Video: Advancing Diversity Honoree -- Crowdfunding Roadmap's Ruth Hedges

“A cure for cancer is sitting in a tech transfer office somewhere in this country and it never got the funding it needed,” said Ruth Hedges, CEO and Industry Pioneer at Crowdfunding Roadmap Inc., at the inaugural Advancing Diversity Honors held January 10 during CES. Hedges was honored for her company’s Education Diversity initiative.

Hedges seeks to make crowdfunding accessible so that minority-, woman-, disability-, service-disabled veteran-, and LGBT-owned businesses can achieve financial success – and to reach out to the widest audience possible, so investors can inject much-needed capital into already established small- and medium-sized diversity-led businesses.  See the full video above and view all the 2018 Advancing Diversity Honorees at www.AdvancingDiversity.org.

Click to watch the Advancing Diversity Honoree videos below:

Aline Santos - Unilever

Angela Talton - Nielsen

Kay Koplovitz - Springboard Enterprises

Lisa Sherman - Ad Council

Megan Hobson - EY

Michael Roth - IPG

Randall Rothenberg - IAB

Ruth Hedges - Crowdfunding Roadmap Inc.

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Karla Chrzanowski

Karla Chrzanowski is the Executive Director of Jack Myers KnowledgeExchange, where she oversees development of the company’s core initiatives – AdvancingDiversity, 1stFive, WomenAdvancing, Legends & Leaders, The Future of Men and Jack Myers T… read more