Ebony Miller-Wesley / Director and program manager of the RIT Center for Urban Entrepreneurship (CUE)

Ebony Miller-Wesley has served as the director of Rochester Institute of Technology's Center for Urban Entrepreneurship (CUE) since November 2015. CUE provides business and consulting services to urban entrepreneurs or anyone who has an existing business or is hoping to launch a new business within the urban area. In her role, Ebony leads the center's efforts to raise funds to provide critical assistance to underserved businesses in high growth sectors, and foster outreach and collaboration with the Rochester City School District and entrepreneurship education for dislocated workers. She also maintains partnerships with entrepreneurship and training efforts currently found within RIT's Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Venture Creations business incubator, as well as other community, government and economic development organizations.
Ebony came to RIT in 2011 as a senior staff specialist for the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. Prior to joining RIT, Ebony worked as program coordinator at the Urban League of Rochester's Minority and Women Business Development Division where she assisted entrepreneurs with growing their business and aspiring entrepreneurs with identifying their needs.
Ebony earned a Bachelor of Arts in communications and a Masters of Arts in Informatics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Ebony, a 2016 Rochester Business Journal Forty-Under-40 honoree, has numerous community connections, including serving as a member of the Salvation Army Board of Advisors, member of the Rochester Prep Board of Trustees, member of the PathStone Enterprise Center Loan Committee, member of the Class of 2015 Leadership Rochester, and a member of the 2013 class of the African American Leadership Development Program.

Yasmin Mattox / Program coordinator of the RIT Center for Urban Entrepreneurship

Yasmin J. Mattox is the program coordinator for CUE. She is also the founder of Arkatecht LLC, a technology startup that creates digital products to assist professional women with integrative planning for family and career to yield positive outcomes and successes in both endeavors.
Yasmin previously founded and ran a social science research and consulting business from 2012 to 2016. She works with entrepreneurs to better understand their markets, how to independently conduct market research, and otherwise navigate in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. She works with several groups in varying roles to do her part in helping to ensure a brighter and more resilient future for the Rochester area, including RocCity Coalition (inclusion action team co-leader), Black Young Professionals (community service co-chair), RIT's Into the Roc (advisory board) and Brightstar Community (advisor).