Cheo Tyehimba Taylor, principal, is an award-winning journalist, author, educator, and social enterprise consultant. He penned "The Ghetto Solution," a non-fiction book that New York's Library Journal called a "work of enormous social, political and spiritual significance." He has been a staff writer for Time Warner Magazines, a reporter for Entertainment Weekly magazine, editor of Promethean: The Literary Journal of The City College of New York and senior editor of Code, a style magazine for men of color. He won national distinction for "Best Magazine Article on Foreign Travel" by the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation for "Scarred Walls of Stone," his investigative feature on the former slave dungeons of Ghana. He has written for countless publications, including The Washington Post, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Savoy, People, American Legacy, O - The Oprah Magazine, George Magazine, where he worked with the late John F. Kennedy, Jr., Vibe, Essence, among others. His many years as a journalist covering social justice issues, business, politics, and the arts, as well as his work as a senior communication consultant specializing in health disparities/health care reform for Kaiser Permanente, provided a solid foundation to launch Forward Ever Media, LLC in 2006.
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David Goldberg, lead web developer and designer, is a 25 year veteran of the online space, having begun his research and development efforts in the days of dialup connections to BBS services. Formaly trained in computer systems engineering and visual culture studies, he is an accomplished web and interactive applications programmer, graphic designer, teacher, media critic and independent scholar. He has designed and taught arts and technology curriculum for the California College of the Arts, Kapiolani Community College, the San Francisco Art Insititute, the University of Hawaii, the University of Southern California, University of California Santa Cruz, and numerous academic conferences.
Working from a client and community-centered philosophy, Goldberg brings a unique blend of technical, aesthetic and social expertise to Forward Ever. He plays a key role in our efforts to deliver web solutions that unite client-specific customization and the leveraging of social networking platforms. He is committed to adapting technologies and problem-solving approaches typically reserved for the high-end research sector to organizations that typically lack access to them.
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