Cheryl Contee

Bestselling author Cheryl Contee is CEO at The Impact Seat Foundation and the Chair and Founder of Do Big Things, a digital agency using new narratives and new tech to create global change in a new era. She has been an affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and is a proud Co-Founder of #YesWeCode (now Dream Corps TECH) with Van Jones. A Yale and Georgetown graduate, she’s the Co-Founder of Attentive.ly, the first tech startup with a Black female founder to be acquired by a NASDAQ company. Cheryl has been featured in many media outlets, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Fast Company, C-SPAN, Black Enterprise, BBC, MSNBC, and CNN. Learn more at and