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Welcoming Casey Gerald to Our Board of Directors

09/10/2019

I am very pleased to announce that the author and entrepreneur Casey Gerald has been appointed to Kickstarter PBC's board of directors.

Casey is the author of There Will Be No Miracles Here, a memoir and coming-of-age story that, as Casey puts it, stands the American dream on its head. It was named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR and The New York Times. Casey is a two-time TED speaker and was named by Fast Company as one of the Most Creative People in Business. He also recently wrote The Black Art of Escape for New York magazine, reflecting on the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans' arrival in Virginia.
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