Executive Director @UmfgAlliance.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined January 2014
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Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center’s Director of Business Operations Dr Cortez on how to bring diverse mfgs into the supply chain and connecting to @NIST_MEP. #GatherUpUMA @TCFdotorg @UMfgAlliance
#GatherUpUMA @TCFdotorg fellow Michelle Burris on #chipsandscienceact and deepening connections to HBCUs.
#GatherUpUMA @DrRonWilliams presenting on how collaboration with HBCU, community-embedded makerspace and corporate partners can come together to influence state policy on manufacturing.
#gatherupuma Tanu from @UMfgAlliance describing how manufacturing creates healthy and thriving places to work and live- with middle-wage jobs people can get to through public transport or even a short walk!
#gatherupuma @_seattlemade in Houston on matching-making between small businesses & property owners for popup activation using federal covid relief and city dollars. This can lead to longterm leases for entrepreneurs.
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Beautiful crowd of urban #manufacturing practitioners at the @UMfgAlliance national gathering in Houston Texas!!!
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@UMfgAlliance Excited to learn something that makes instant application, eng and idea implementation available for all. Growinh Makerspaces grows opportunities. Makerspaces ecosystems are necessary for HTX. #GatherUpUMA #makerspace #engineering #3dprinting
#gatherupuma @MfgRenChicago sharing their community work in Chicago in Houston with Young Mfg Association and Ministers for Mfg.
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When faith leaders come together around manufacturing, they can change the perception of what it means to be a maker, says Lee Wellington, the executive director of the Urban Manufacturing Alliance: faithandleadership.com/lee-w…
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Lee Wellington breaks down urban manufacturing & the sector stigma, known as the 3D's- Dying, Dangerous, & Dirty! Lee states, "generation wealth building opportunities exist..." She states @UMfgAlliance is working to assure equity & inclusion for people of color. #EICAC2021
Miquela Craytor talking curriculum design and the importance of conecting design processes to building technical mfg skills @NYC_SBS @NextCityOrg @UMfgAlliance
#LiviaLam throwing out automatic renewal to narrow the gap between pre-apprenticeships and apprenticeship pipeines at federal policy release event @NextCityOrg @UMfgAlliance
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#makers like YOU can rebuild the economy. TOMORROW @ 4pm PT /7pm ET on @make FB with @dalepd, @NationOfMakers, @ilanapreuss of @recastcity, @LeeWelli of @UmfgAlliance, @GinaLujan of @SacHackerLab, and @rainforestbook of @RighttoStart. makezine.com/2020/09/08/plan…
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This is my hometown post office in Setauket NY. It struck an obsession with the postal service that I carry to this day. The #USPS worker Stephanie knows everyone’s names. While home for the summer it suddenly had its hours cut in half. I now see it’s all part of something more..
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We're live with @DrRonWilliams, @RhandiBerth, @LeeWelli, Autumn Russell, and @pelhamprog discussing equity and industrial rebirth, and announcing the launch of a new national cohort of workforce development groups.
Tune in: youtube.com/watch?v=8lsWMXf1…
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"There isn't just a moral imperative to promote equity in the manufacturing sector, but also an economic imperative," says @LeeWelli.
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#InSolidarity w/ @UMfgAlliance in lifting up research on the inequitable capital flow to makers & manufacturers of color & ways that community-based lenders are centering inclusion to promote equity. Hear their stories, Forging Fairness report. bit.ly/UMAPathways
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Philip Braverman, 87, of Long Island, NY died of COVID-19 on May 2nd with his wife Etta by his side. He was a renowned economist who loved time with his family, and with his fellow Jewish war veterans at the local Jewish Community Center. More @dbubbeo1014 newsday.com/news/health/coro…
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.@UMfgAlliance surveyed 100+ manufacturers, mostly very small. One big finding: they are likely to grow. #IDEALAB2019