Elemental Excelerator Interactive
May 25, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm HST
| FreeInteractive is our annual gathering of startups and investors in San Francisco. The event will be livestreamed and we’d love for you to join us. You will hear from entrepreneurs in Cohort X who are building innovative companies around the world, deploying technologies to cut GHG emissions, and creating a more inclusive climate tech sector.
Entrepreneurs from Cohort X will take the stage for lightning introductions and audience Q&A. We’ve also curated a few artist performances and on-stage discussions with people building innovative solutions to climate change and social inequity.
Speaker: Gabriel Cortez
Poet | Educator | Organizer
Gabriel Cortez is a Black biracial poet, educator, and organizer of Panamanian descent. His work has appeared in The New York Times, National Public Radio, Huffington Post, The Rumpus, and The Breakbeat Poets Anthology Volume 4. He is a VONA fellow, #BARS workshop alum, NALAC grant recipient, and winner of the Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize. Gabriel is a member of the artist collective, Ghostlines, and co-founder of The Root Slam, an award-winning poetry venue dedicated to inclusivity, justice, and artistic growth, as well as Write Home, a project working to challenge public perceptions of houselessness and shift critical resources to houseless Bay Area youth through spoken word poetry. Gabriel works as Director of Programs at Youth Speaks, one of the world’s leading presenters of spoken word performance, education, and youth development programs.