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[Excitedly] Introducing: Oneca Hitchman

DateMonday, March 15, 2010 at 01:44PM

We are extremely excited to introduce you to Oneca Hitchman, an exciting new guest voice/commentator here at Millennials Changing America.

We were super excited to have the opportunity to talk with Sharalyn Hartwell last week, and it is important for us to be able to feature a wide-range of Millennial ideas and insights. We are very much looking forward to sharing Hitchman's commentary.

Here, Oneca shares a bit about her already robust life and career.

Take it away, Oneca.

Throughout my diverse educational and occupational life I have always had a distinct interest in the creativity and communication that the written word lends to collaborative empowerment. A long time student of history, cultural studies, environmental progression, economic development, and international politics, I am currently utilizing my interests and background to create the only primary literary source addressing the societal needs and absent voices of the Millennial generation.

My process thus far has been a wild and winding one, to say the very least. With regard to my educational background, I graduated from Brown University as a triple concentrator with academic honors in Public Private Sector Organizations, American Civilization, and Ethnic Studies, with a focus on International Business and Economic Development in the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora.  I completed my thesis on The Reproduction of Class Stratification in Jamaica after researching Economic Development and Gender Equality on the island, at the University of the West Indies. Later, to contextualize my interest in nonprofit and corporate-based events, I became a classically trained chef and restaurant management graduate from the Institute of Culinary Education. In addition to conventional learning, I became a published slam poetry artist for the Random House/Russell Simmons produced compilation Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, was contributor on Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s young adult social commentary broadcast, Respect!, and proudly managed Soul Cypher, an organization seeking to promote political awareness through lyricism.

After college, I tried to utilize my cosmopolitan background of development, programmatic coordination, writing, and research, to personally grow, aid nationally and internationally focused concerns, and explore a variety of diverse occupational experiences. At Utendahl Capital Partners, the largest African-American owned investment firm in the nation, I executed corporate conferences targeting Community Reinvestment Act shareholders and planned large-scale, organization-based events, nationwide. After working as a Regional Coordinator for Donald J. Trump, and a New Business Research Coordinator for advertising firm Muts&Joy, I became sick of corporate life, discouraged that I had deviated off the path of progressive enlightenment, and suffered a mild quarter-life crisis. As such, after the mini breakdown, I re-ignited internal fires and revived my spirit as an Event Director at public policy research and advocacy organization, Demos. Here I received documented insight into the direct link between education and economic gain and the extent to which my generation’s educational prospects were being hindered. Additionally, I began to understand how, specifically, the greatest economic downturn since the Wall Street Crash of 1929, leading to the Great Depression, was crippling the future of Millennials on a greater scale than any other age bracket nationally.

I decided to create a literary platform that allowed Millennials to speak on their own behalf about political concerns directly affecting them.  I wanted the compilation to provide Millennials the opportunity to change the consequences of past disregard by communicating first-hand experiences, opinions, and suggestions, and then, apply their notably unique experience to the ever-changing present and future culture. After writing a concept and requesting submissions, I received an extraordinary amount of writing samples that I then narrowed down and assembled. With confirmed contributors working diligently on expressing their experience through written word, I asked Justin Rockefeller and Maya Enista, Board member and CEO of Mobilize.org respectively, to write the compilation’s forward and they generously agreed. Maya, with my deepest gratitude, put me in touch with Morley Winograd, who introduced me to Alex Steed and the eager trail of interconnected support has continued at a humbling rate.

Though my life has undergone wonderfully instructive twists and turns, I truly believe (and sincerely pray) that I have found a literary mission that will seamlessly connect the many pieces of my background and be utilized in a way that proves helpful to others.





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