Tech Intersect™ with Prof Tonya M. Evans

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome my dear friend, V. Shayne Frederick to the show. He is a Vocalist, Pianist, Composer, Educator and Bitcoin HODLer who learned to leverage his early, consistent investments to empower himself to create, produce and shine on his own terms.  With performances spanning two decades. V. Shayne has been featured at TED...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome Justin Rhedrick . Justin is the author of a new transformative and engaging book, From BARS to BITCOIN that chronicles his journey to financial freedom and self-mastery with Bitcoin after being released from prison and meeting Bitcoin OG, educator, and entrepreneur Isaiah Jackson (aka Bitcoin Zay, author of Bitc...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome Melanie McClain to the show. Melanie is a New York based publishing A&R at Secretly Group, founder of the Blurred Lines community, and blockchain strategist with a focus on Web3 world-building for international creatives and brands. Melanie is a music industry veteran with over 10 years of professional exper...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome Lamar Wilson aka BIG MARH to the show. He co-founded the Black Bitcoin Billionaire Club with friend of the show, previous guest and author of Bitcoin and Black America, Isaiah “Bitcoin Zay'' Jackson, BBB is now one of the largest cryptocurrency groups on Clubhouse. The club encourages members to invest...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. I welcome Steve Krause to the show. He is the VP, Head of Commercial Legal for Dapper Labs – the creators of NBA Top Shot, CryptoKitties, and the Flow Blockchain. Steve’s groundbreaking work on IP licensing issues related to Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has made him one of the foremost experts in the field. His 25 years of negotiating experience – including...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this SPOTLIGHT ep of Tech Intersect, I capture some of the best conversations I’ve had about crypto, defi and economic empowerment. This episode features an  all-star cast of thought leaders whom you should definitely book for your next event or pod and engage with on social media.  Fred Brandon ( ep 65 ) is an entrepreneur, technologist, TV/radio produ...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this Ping the Prof episode of Tech Intersect, I am excited to give you a sneak peak into this week’s FREE masterclass, : The Five Keys to Decode the Future of Crypto, DeFi and NFTs, and also share an exclusive listener opportunity to scoop up one of the few remaining spaces in the incoming Decode the Future of Work and Wealth three-session cohort-based...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome Khalia Braswell, an award-winning technologist, whose personal mission is to make a social change using technology. Khalia graduated from North Carolina State University with a BS in Computer Science. In 2016, she also obtained her Masters in Information Technology. Khalia is currently a Presidential Future Facu...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I chat with Harold Hughes, the founder & CEO of Bandwagon – a venture-backed identity infrastructure company that helps its customers transparently manage, aggregate, and store valuable consumer identity data. A rising star in data, identity, and experience space, Harold has had his brilliant vision and ideas validate...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. For this week's Tech Intersect spotlight episode, I selected a popular "Ping the Prof" episode about intellectual property rights in the non-fungible token space. What rights an artist creates when she mints, what rights she transfers to an NFT marketplace, how to participate in secondary market sales, what to do if someone creates an unauth...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I chat with Robert Greenfield IV. the President and CEO of Emerging Impact, a benefit corporation that supports major NGOs and government agencies leveraging emerging technology in humanitarian aid and welfare programming. Together, we explore what it means to leverage blockchain’s distributed ledger technology and crypto...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome crypto law pioneer Marta Belcher to the show. Marta is the General Counsel and Head of Policy at Protocol Labs and the Board Chair of the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. She also serves as special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We talk about the importan...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome Mikael (Mikel) Owunna , a multi-media artist, engineer and emerging NFT Artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He centers himself as a queer Nigerian-Swedish American who Explores the intersections of visual media with engineering, optics, Blackness, and African cosmologies, and his work seeks to elucidate an...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. Title: In this episode of Tech Intersect, I reconnect with Cleve Mesidor, She is the founder and fearless leader of the National Policy Network of Women of Color in Blockchain, Policy Advisor to the Blockchain Association, and author of a memoir, The CLEVOLUTION.  In episode 26, we had an authentic and empowering conversation about race, crypto, and financ...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this Spotlight Episode of Tech Intersect, I return to my conversation with Cigars and Crypto Podcast host, Dante aka Invest Noir. We cover a range of timeless topics, including economic empowerment, inclusion, inflation of the US dollar, dollar cost averaging, Dante’s Bitcoin Maximalist views on Ethereum and decentralized finance, the democratizing prin...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I share my testimony summary from PA State Rep. Napoleon Nelson's July 19th House Democratic Policy Committee hearing "Blockchain and Cryptocurrency and preparing Pennsylvania for a digital future." The Committee was short on time and I wasn’t able to deliver my full prepared remarks so I’d like to take the...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome Vince McPhillip, founder of Knomad and former co-founder and Head of Community at Pi Network. He founded Knomad in 2018 to help people find more flexible and meaningful work. He was inspired to launch Knomad as a “flash consultancy” to pair students with cryptocurrency projects after reading an article titled &q...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome Lizzy Aroloye, a Toronto-based Canadian- Nigerian woman who has taken the NFT world by storm as a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist. She graduated from the university of Toronto where she majored in Communication Culture Information Technology and minored in Film studies and Sociology. She did not know it at...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome founder and CEO of EMTECH, Carmelle Cadet. She describes the company as a Modern Central Bank Technology Company.  Carmelle is an experienced Finance and Business Leader in the Enterprise IT sector, with specializations in the Financial Services and Blockchain Technologies. She is also a passionate advocate for...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this special episode of Tech Intersect, I share a replay of my weekly ListenToBlackWomen.com show with co-host Shontavia Johnson, Esq., an IP lawyer, academic and my business partner at LIT Braintrust, LLC. We cover the NFT beef between Dame Dash and Roc-a-fella Records (RAF). On June 18th, RAF filed a complaint in federal district court in New York aga...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. While I am taking a much-needed pause to recuperate from the academic year that was also a pandemic (and grade these papers and exams!), I want to share one of the most popular and timely episodes this year; my conversation with the inimitable Andre Oshea. He is self-described as a 3D animator building the future. That is all true. But he is so much more....

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome attorney Dave Rodman to the show. Dave founded the Rodman Law Group in 2014 in response to what he saw as a lack of sophisticated corporate/business law firms serving the cannabis industry because most dealt only on the criminal side and defense work. From that moment he found his own lane, in fact her created i...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome Ayana the Oracle . She is founder and CEO of creativholistic — a virtual wellness platform and gift shop dedicated to empowering creative changemakers on their wealth and wellness journey through interactive product and events. And she’s most commonly known for creating the most potent, transformative, and inter...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome Stefen Deleveaux to the show. Stefen is a Bahamian economist and an authority on blockchain and fintech in the Caribbean. He is President/CEO of the Caribbean Blockchain Alliance (CBA), which is a regional NGO formed to advocate for blockchain technology and to foster its adoption through awareness and education...

Kudos, Questions, Comments? Send it here. In this episode of Tech Intersect, I welcome crypto tax guru Charles J. Kelly, also known as, “CJ the Smart Guy”, to the show. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who graduated from Texas Southern University with both a B.B.A in Finance and Accounting, and upon graduating, he took a position with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway where he held...