Joi Brown is the founder and CEO of Culture Creators, the global platform connecting the executives, creators, and innovators shaping entertainment, music, tech, sports, and fashion.

Before launching Culture Creators, Joi spent her career inside the rooms where culture actually gets made. She served as SVP of Marketing and Brand Partnerships at Atlantic Records and Head of Strategic Partnerships at ICM Partners, building the kind of cross-industry relationships that move artists, brands, and ideas forward. That experience is the foundation Culture Creators is built on. She knew firsthand that the people doing the work needed a place to find each other, to pull the next generation up, and to keep the standards high.

Under Joi’s leadership, Culture Creators has become a platform with real receipts. The Foundation has awarded more than $300,000 in scholarships to HBCU students in a single year, with that footprint now expanding to young creators in markets around the world. The agency has become a trusted partner to companies looking to build smarter recruitment pipelines and connect with the next wave of leadership in their industries. And the Innovators and Leaders Awards, the annual brunch she created in Los Angeles, has become one of the most respected cultural gatherings of the year, with coverage in Billboard, Forbes, Variety, VIBE, The Hollywood Reporter, Essence, Page Six, and People.

Joi is a proud alumna of Howard University and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. She also serves on the Board of Directors of MUSIC WILL, the national nonprofit working to bring music education to public school children across the country. Outside of the work, she is a wife and mother to twin teenage daughters, which she will tell you is the toughest and most rewarding job on her resume.

What drives her, in every room she walks into, is the same belief that started Culture Creators. Culture is built by the people doing the work, and the next generation deserves a real seat at the table.