Timothy L. Jenkins is chairman and CEO of Unlimited Visions, Inc., an organization founded to promote telecommunications applications in education and training, community and economic development, data management, and value-based education.  He was instrumental in creating the first all-black on-line forum on the Internet and served on President Clinton's transition team as well as the transition team for Mayor Anthony Williams of Washington, DC.  Jenkins is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia.  He holds a J.D. degree from Yale University Law School and served as chief lobbyist for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for five years.

Links:

Black Futurists in the Information Age (on KMT Publications' web site -- includes chapter synopses, excerpts, and reviews).

"I'm On-Line To Success," by Joan Huyser-Honig, Journal of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation (Vol. 8, No. 2) -- an article featuring some of Jenkins's work.

Jon Katz, "Blacks and the Internet: euphoria or doomsday?" Freedom Forum Online (August 26, 1999) -- an article about the implications of Jenkins's chapter in Technology and the Future.

Timothy L. Jenkins, "Erasing E-Racism and Digitizing Democracy:  A Conceptual Response to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination on Internet."  A paper presented at a seminar convened by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at Geneva, Switzerland, November 10-14, 1997.  French version.

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