Brian Tate Email & Phone Number

Brian Tate is a marketing strategist, cultural curator, community engagement specialist, and multidisciplinary scholar. His public programs examine the issues of our time, and his marketing campaigns tap the mythic narrative of an issue, place, or brand. His engagement work gathers communities across traditional divides, and his scholarship investigates complexity as relates to history, politics, culture, and the future. He has built forward-looking projects at the nexus of arts and ideas for more than 20 years. He is the founder and CEO of Tate Strategy, a New York City-based consulting firm that advises innovators in the arts, media, philanthropy, and economic development. He also consults to grassroots organizers about their campaigns and activism; and vanguard artists about their projects and careers. He is the former director of community partnerships for The WNET Group, home of America’s flagship PBS station, where he developed 500+ community alliances and created award-winning digital content. He is the former executive director of the DC Committee to Promote Washington, a nonprofit organization that marketed the Nation's Capital around the world. Taking on the role when the city’s image was at its lowest, he led the office to generate $93M per year in visitor revenues. Since relocating to Brooklyn in 2001, Tate has convened and collaborated with hundreds of leaders across sectors and across the five boroughs. He has also created singular marketing strategies for Brooklyn, Broadway, Jamaica Queens, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and numerous nonprofits. A skilled negotiator, he has developed millions of dollars in corporate sponsorships through pacts with AT&T, NBC, Pepsi-Cola, Target, The Washington Post, and others. Tate is a writer of fiction, poetry, and memoir. He is guided by the example of his parents, Charles and Florence Tate, brilliant civil rights activists who espoused selfless action to drive social change. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and daughter.To learn more, visit https://www.tatestrategy.com/

Listed skills include Nonprofits, Event Management, Event Planning, Strategic Planning, and 45 others.

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  American University

  Psychology