Portrait of Ace, natural light.

The person behind the practice

Ace.

Rooted in Oakland. Reaching the world.

The long version.

I've spent fifteen years standing next to people who could see something clearly and had nothing underneath it. Nonprofits running on group chats. Founders whose whole operation lived in their own head. Programs that worked beautifully and could not be handed to anyone else.

My work is the part nobody photographs: the intake form that routes itself, the document that answers the question before it gets asked, the process that keeps running on the week you are unavailable.

I'm based in Oakland. Most of what I've built started here, in rooms where the budget was small and the stakes were not.

Ace at work, Oakland.

What I believe.

A vision without a system is a burden.

The idea is not the hard part. Carrying it alone forever is.

Infrastructure is care made repeatable.

Anything you love, you eventually have to make survivable without you.

Build for the person who comes after you.

If it only runs when you're in the room, it isn't finished.

The arc.

2009New Vision EntertainmentStarted in Oakland as a spoken word performance company and creative youth platform. Produced showcases, artistic development programs, and live events that gave young people a stage, a voice, and a vocabulary for their own experience. The work was cultural. The infrastructure behind it was operational from day one.

2011iVisionary Academy and the #iVision MovementLaunched to deliver youth leadership development across East Bay schools and community spaces. Secured the first $40,000 in grant funding, facilitated 100+ workshops, and grew a movement that reached 150,000+ young people. $25,000+ went directly to youth participants. Built the seven-lesson leadership curriculum still in use, and organized nationwide talent tours.

2016The Cre8ive Genius LLCFormalized consulting under one entity, advising founders, creatives, and community organizations on brand positioning, audience development, and operational systems. Directed social strategy and analytics for nine years, built paid campaigns across Meta and Google, ran influencer marketing end to end, and trained client teams on their own CRMs.

2018Impact Hub OaklandJoined to build programming and operational infrastructure for a 10,000+ square foot innovation hub. Managed event production, vendor coordination, facility operations, and community partnerships.

2019BLOC Love FoundationCo-founded to coordinate community care and mutual aid at scale. Built the volunteer infrastructure, event operations, and coordination systems that let a small team mobilize 500+ volunteers across 100+ events while deploying $70,000 in direct resources. Founded the first Seventh Street Cleanup for Black Earth Day in West Oakland, and partnered with Community Ready Corps across the East Bay. Served as President and Board Chair 2021 to 2024.

2020Evolve OaklandWhen COVID closed the doors, led the pivot from physical hub to a creator-focused production and business support model. Rebuilt programming for virtual delivery, added digital production support, and stood up peer business advisory cohorts.

2022Esther's Orbit Room Cultural RevivalLed the community activation of a historic Black landmark from concept to launch. Ran stakeholder engagement, outreach, and a multi-platform communications strategy. Designed and facilitated a business incubator for Black entrepreneurs, supporting founders through structured business plans and growth strategy.

2024Savers / Value VillageTook operations management on a retail production floor moving 3,000+ items a day across five departments. Coordinated donation intake, sorting, pricing, and merchandising. Identified bottlenecks and re-engineered workflows to accelerate throughput without losing quality control. Built low-code reporting across all five departments.

2024The technical layerCompleted TripleTen's AI Automation program, then applied it in production immediately. Built end-to-end workflows in Zapier, Make, and n8n with Gemini and Claude, including sentiment analysis, ticket routing, and real-time decision-support pipelines.

Classrooms, curriculum, and the people running them.

Community programs and the operations underneath.

Rooms, gatherings, and live culture.

Founders and the businesses they carry.

Classrooms, curriculum, and the people running them.

Community programs and the operations underneath.

Rooms, gatherings, and live culture.

Founders and the businesses they carry.

Receipts.

$140,000

In grant funding secured

$25,000+ direct to youth, $40,000 to creative entrepreneurs.

5,000+

Community members served, $70,000 deployed

BLOC Love Foundation.

150,000+

Young people reached

iVisionary Academy and #iVision.

500+

Volunteers mobilized across 100+ events

With a small core team and no institutional backing.

15+

Businesses kept revenue through the COVID shutdown

Impact Hub to Evolve Oakland.

100%

Manual feedback review eliminated

Zapier and Gemini pipeline. Routing from hours to minutes.

30 min → 2 min

A 30-minute process reduced to under two minutes

3,000+

Items a day standardized across five departments

30%

Increase in event attendance

10,000+ square foot facility.

25%

Average client visibility increase

Nine years of consulting engagements.

Historic Black landmark reactivated, with an incubator inside it

If you can see it and nobody else can run it yet, that is the whole conversation.

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