This spotlight is part of the “PLACE Builders mentors” series. More information about the PLACE (Pava LaPere Award for Cultivating Ecosystems) Builders fellowship can be found here.
Tabitha (Tab) Wolod
Brand Strategist and CEO of IEI Agency, LLC
PLACE Builders mentor Tabitha Wolod is the Brand Strategist and CEO of IEI Agency, LLC, a company specializing in helping people with powerful messages to get those messages out into the world in meaningful ways for more impact and income.
Matched Fellow: Angela Hollowell, Southeast region
"[The fellowship] was an experience for us to learn from each other with opportunities for future collaboration."
Tabitha Wolod
PLACE Builders mentor Tabitha Wolod values one-on-one support and the exchange of knowledge. She found her experience with Angela Hollowell mutually beneficial, as both are dedicated to building communities centered around BIPOC creatives and allies. Their alignment was strong, as both are dedicated to building communities centered around BIPOC creatives and allies, a mission that resonates with Tabitha’s work at the Black Butterfly Network. Tabitha highlighted the importance of transparency, authenticity, and trust in their communications, which made their mentorship particularly powerful.
Meet the other PLACE Builders mentors:
Inspired by the legacy of Pava LaPere, forever Chief Ecosystem Officer and Co-Founder of EcoMap Technologies, as a tribute to her legacy of fighting for equal access to opportunity, the PLACE (Pava LaPere Award for Cultivating Ecosystems) Builders fellowship aims to catalyze more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems by providing intensive training, peer support, and community pilots to eight selected fellows.