Prior to his current role at Fawns Leap, Nestor founded Clevermask, a web agency which provides web design, development, and growth strategies. As a native Spanish speaker and immigrant from Lima, Peru, he has been instrumental in developing a plan to increase outreach and support to entrepreneurs within the Latinx community. Serving as the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Fawns Leap, Nestor plays a major role in digital transformations, media production, and product development. He has spent the last 13 years creating digital solutions and is currently most passionate about the work he is doing to support other underrepresented entrepreneurs. In her free time she hosts Parallax, a civic innovation focused podcast sponsored by Drexel University’s ExCITe Center, the Design Futures Lab and a recording space provided by the Dornsife Center for Community Partnerships.Ī self-described problem solver, Nestor Canales is an entrepreneur and technologist who is committed to providing consulting and support to startups and small businesses. Outside of her typical day to day, Liz is also an adjunct professor with a master’s degree in Urban Planning from the University at Buffalo as well as a second master’s in Information Design and Technology from SUNY IT. ![]() During that same time, she played a major role in conceiving and organizing one of the largest and most inclusive annual events at Philly Tech Week, as well as a monthly meetup series geared towards supporting local thinkers, makers, and doers with more than 1500 members. Additionally, she co-founded and served as co-CEO of Webjunto, a well known design and development agency that served more than 100 tech startups internationally and was named Philadelphia’s Best Tech Workplace for Diversity at the 2018 Timmy Awards. Liz has also been featured in several well-known industry publications and media establishments, including Communication Arts, DMI Review, Al Jazeera Media Network, and SXSW. In 2018, she was awarded the title of Technologist of the Year at the Annual Rad Girl Awards. Her role at Backstage included curriculum development for an international startup accelerator serving 24 companies with founders identifying as socially or economically disadvantaged, womxn, people of color, and LGBTQ+. Prior to her co-founding Fawns Leap, she was the Managing Director at Backstage Philadelphia, an arm of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in underrepresented founders. Today Liz serves as the co-founder and CEO of Fawns Leap, a creative agency and think tank that is hyperfocused on working with startups, growth-focused organizations, and localities to foster and sustain inclusive innovation ecosystems and economies. After battling joblessness and hiring discrimination within the tech community, she became deeply committed to leveraging her hybrid skill set to build capacity and advocate for more inclusive innovation ecosystems locally and internationally. Air Force veteran, serial entrepreneur, technologist, and urban planner in her 15+ years as a community builder and consultant. Plenty of people out on this day.Liz Brown has led an impressive career as a U.S. We calmed our fears and ventured up the loose scree to find a beautiful pool in between the two falls. Barely a trickle, the Falls looked the least impressive that I can recall. Watch here, as Chris Hiker becomes Chris Jumper.Īfter watching over a hundred jumps, VPo and I headed up to Kaaterskill Falls. On this hot day, the cool water felt so, so refreshing. My feet then crashed into the water and gently touched the bottom of the pool. A feeling of complete helplessness came over me and my arms moved uncontrollably. ![]() For two and a half hours I watched jumper after jumper, saying to myself, "I'll jump after this one." Even after watching two young girls jump(in their single digits no doubt), I did not get the nerve to.įinally I did, and what an experience it was. After giving me a hard time, the copper let me go and find a more legitimate parking spot. A couple jumpers let me know a cop was giving me a parking ticket. On approaching Fawn's Leap we could hear loud crashes, the sound of jumpers making a plunge into the water below. The VPo Man and I set out to Kaaterskill Creek and Fawn's Leap.
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